A $450 million da Vinci is cool. Here’s the real reason rich people spend millions on art
Gasps rippled through the Christie’s auction house. And then cheers. “Salvator Mundi,” a 600-year-old painting by Leonardo da Vinci, had just sold for $450 million. It was the most expensive painting ever sold at auction. What makes the stratospheric price even more remarkable? The poster-sized painting, which features Jesus Christ holding a crystal orb, sold …