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"SALVATOR MUNDI" BY LEONARD OF VINCI

WOULD BE ON MBS YACHT

At least that's what Kenny Schachter, an art market specialist who believes he has located Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi, has been missing since he was bought for a staggering amount a year and a half ago.

The "Salvator Mundi" has disappeared since its purchase a year and a half ago. The painting was acquired for $ 450 million at an auction held in November 2017 by Christie's, spiking all records in the art market.

Since then, the painting where Christ emerges from darkness, blessing the world with one hand while holding a transparent globe in the other, has never been shown in public. Some scholars have judged that it might have been done by Leonardo's disciples and not by the master himself.

While waiting for the development of a cultural site? Officially, it was acquired to complete the Louvre Abu Dhabi collection.

According to the Wall Street Journal, the buyer is actually the Saudi prince Badr ben Abdallah, acting on behalf of the powerful Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, nicknamed MBS, which has never confirmed or denied.

Located on a yacht Kenny Schachter, a collector and art dealer based in London, reinforces this hypothesis on the site Artnet.com, devoted to the art market. For the specialist, the painting will remain at sea until Saudi Arabia manages to transform the Al-Ula region into a cultural site attracting international tourists.

At the beginning of the year, international musicians have already performed there, in a glass auditorium erected in the middle of the pre-Islamic ruins of this desert area of ​​northwestern Saudi Arabia.