The Art Law Podcast

We are re-releasing our podcast with journalist and author Ben Lewis in anticipation of our forthcoming discussion with Robert Simon. We talked with Ben in depth about his book, The Last Leonardo: The Secret Lives of the World’s Most Expensive Painting, about the history and ultimate sale by Christie’s auction house in November 2017 for just over $450.3 million of the painting Salvator Mundi attributed to Leonardo Da Vinci. Our next episode with Robert Simon will revisit this story from a different perspective. Resources: https://www.amazon.com/Last-Leonardo-Secret-Expensive-Painting/dp/1984819259 https://www.christies.com/features/Leonardo-and-Post-War-results-New-York-8729-3.aspx https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/apr/17/last-leonardo-secret-lives-worlds-most-expensive-painting-ben-lewis-review https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-last-leonardo-by-ben-lewis-review-is-salvator-mundi-really-worth-450-million-vqvk2gjx5 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/30/arts/design/salvator-mundi-louvre-abu-dhabi.html