Dispute is over whether the painting was for sale before its display at the National Gallery
A bitter row between art experts has erupted in the pages of the London Review of Books (LRB) over the Salvator Mundi, a previously unknown painting, that was first shown in the National Gallery’s Leonardo exhibition before going on to sell for a record $450.3m (£342.1m).
The dispute centres on an unwritten rule that public collections should avoid showing pictures that are available for sale and a statement by Robert Simon, one of its then owners, says that it was “not for sale” when its National Gallery unveiling was announced.
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