A devoted duplicate of Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa dating from greater than 400 years back has actually cost EUR210,000.
The paint invested time in Artcurial public auction residence, Brussels, prior to being moved to Christie’s in Paris for a public auction that occurred the other day.
Leonardo’s initial, which French King Francois I purchased from the painter in 1518, can be located in Paris’ Louvre gallery and also is except sale.
However this variation, dating from around 1600, is so comparable to the initial that specialists claim it is most likely that the musician had close accessibility to Leonardo’s variation
Initial quotes thought the duplicate would certainly bring EUR150,000-200,000.
‘ Every person intends to possess a high-grade variation of Mona Lisa’
This duplicate is commonly called 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 wonderful throughout the 1950s.
Hekking acquired the paint for simply EUR2.57 and also invested a good deal of his life encouraged it was truth Mona Lisa and also generated a promotion project asserting so
” She is the best picture of the attraction the Mona Lisa has actually constantly influenced and also which she applies increasingly more,” muses Pierre Etienne, International Supervisor of Old Master Paints at Christie’s
” She is the desire for a guy with an enthusiasm for art. She is his Suitable. Raymond Hekking was her strong protector amongst art chroniclers and also 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 and also centre of the art public auction globe.
There go to the very least a lots duplicates out on the planet – a lot of which were repainted by pupils of Da Vinci
” Mona Lisa is one of the most gorgeous lady in paint,” Matthieu Fournier, Artcurial’s specialist and also salesclerk, stated as the paint took place show and tell in advance of the sale in Belgium.
” Every person intends to possess a high-grade variation of Mona Lisa.”
Leonardo, he emphasized “had followers, since he created a design. He had fans, impersonators”.
In June, a European enthusiast acquired one more 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 offered Leonardo’s ‘Salvator Mundi’ for a document EUR389 million.
