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"Salvator Mundi" by Leonardo Da Vinci was to be exhibited at the Louvre Abu Dhabi (AFP)
When the famous painting "Salvator Mundi" was sold to an anonymous buyer for about $ 450 million at the end of 2017 , the world of art has burst into speculation. Who was the buyer? And what did selling mean for future generations of art lovers wanting to see it?
Soon, it was ensured that the painting – attributed to Leonardo da Vinci despite expert skepticism – would soon be exhibited at the Louvre Abu Dhabi, which was inaugurated the same month that the painting was sold.
But until today, the famous picture of Jesus does not seem to have ever done. An official date of unveiling was postponed last year, but a new date has never been set. Rumors about his fate were well under way and many of them soon involved Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. One of his close allies would have been at the origin of the 2017 purchase, reported the New York Times that year.
A website on the art market, Artnet, reportedly located the missing picture on the private Serene superyacht, which was reportedly also purchased by the Saudi Crown Prince.
If it is confirmed, the Artnet report that cites several anonymous sources would suggest that the painting is indeed in Saudi Arabia's possession and that the suspicions that "Salvator Mundi" might not reach at Louvre Abu Dhabi are ok.
Representatives of the Louvre in Paris and the Saudi Center for International Communication did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Tuesday.
The absence of this world-famous painting at the Louvre of Abu Dhabi casts a shadow over the ambitious museum project, which in 2017 represented the first overseas expansion of the venerable institution French art. The agreement allowing a museum of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to use the world-renowned name of the Louvre was controversial from the beginning, and the more recent controversy regarding "Salvator Mundi" emboldened the early critics.
Human Rights Watch said Human Rights Watch. in 2015, the Emirati project was mired in scandals about migrant workers. A human rights group had said that some employers "continued to withhold wages and benefits from workers, did not pay recruitment fees, confiscated workers' pbadports and housed them in housing. unhealthy. "
But "the new owner of Salvator Mundi" – Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman – has faced even more harsh criticism from human rights groups. In the United States, the pressures have multiplied to cut Washington's security alliance with the kingdom following the controversial military intervention of the crown prince in Yemen and the CIA's conclusion that he would most likely have ordered the badbadination of Jamal Khashoggi, editorial writer at the Washington Post,
Recent Controversies. Involving the crown prince could also defeat the idea of the kingdom transforming the ruins of the Al-Ula desert into a cultural center. The crown prince himself directed these projects likely to diversify the economy of the kingdom, which relies heavily on oil revenues.
Until this cultural center is completed, said Artnet, the "Salvator Mundi" will remain aboard the Crown Prince's superyacht.
(With the exception of the title, this story has not been altered by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)
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