A devoted duplicate of Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa dating from greater than 400 years earlier will certainly go under the hammer at a Paris public auction on Tuesday.
The paint has actually invested time in Artcurial public auction home, Brussels, yet will certainly be cost Christie’s in Paris on November 9.
Leonardo’s initial, which French King Francois I purchased from the painter in 1518, can be discovered in Paris’ Louvre gallery as well as is except sale.
Yet the duplicate that gets on sale, dating from around 1600, is so comparable to the initial that professionals state it is most likely that the musician had close accessibility to Leonardo’s variation
It approximates the duplicate will certainly bring EUR150,000-200,000.
‘ Every person intends to have a high-grade variation of Mona Lisa’
This duplicate is commonly referred to as Hekking’s Mona Lisa, after ex-owner Raymond Hekking, an antiquarian that passed away in 1977. He acquired the job from an art dealership in Good throughout the 1950s.
Hekking acquired the paint for simply EUR2.57 as well as invested a large amount of his life encouraged it was truth Mona Lisa as well as generated a promotion project asserting so
” She is the ideal picture of the attraction the Mona Lisa has actually constantly motivated as well as which she applies increasingly more,” muses Pierre Etienne, International Supervisor of Old Master Paints at Christie’s
” She is the imagine a guy with an interest for art. She is his Suitable. Raymond Hekking was her strong protector amongst art chroniclers as well as the globe’s media in the 1960s. She will certainly be his Muse, he will certainly be her Poet.”
One in a sea of duplicates
This is not the very first time a Mona Lisa reproduction has actually been front as well as centre of the art public auction globe.
There go to the very least a loads duplicates out on the planet – a number of which were repainted by pupils of Da Vinci
” Mona Lisa is one of the most attractive lady in paint,” Matthieu Fournier, Artcurial’s professional as well as salesclerk, stated as the paint took place show and tell in advance of the sale in Belgium.
” Every person intends to have a high-grade variation of Mona Lisa.”
Leonardo, he emphasized “had followers, due to the fact that he designed a design. He had fans, copy cats”.
In June, a European enthusiast acquired an additional 17th-century duplicate of Mona Lisa for EUR2.9 million, a document for a recreation of the job, at a public auction at Christie’s in Paris.
In 2017, Christie’s New york city marketed Leonardo’s ‘Salvator Mundi’ for a document EUR389 million.
