Da Vinci work for Rs 3,000 cr

• Leonardo da Vinci’s “Salvator Mundi” has become the most expensive artwork to ever sell at an auction, going for $450.3m (approx Rs 3,000 crore) in New York

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• It surpassed the previous auction record held by Picasso’s “Les Femmes d’Alger”, which sold for $179.4m in 2015
• The recently discovered painting dates back to the year 1500 and is one of under 20 known surviving artworks by the master of Italian Renaissance
• First commissioned by Louis XII of France, the oil painting was owned by England’s Charles I, but the artwork was presumed lost in late 18th century