The most expensive painting in the world is missing – Photo

A Leonardo Da Vinci painting sold for $ 450 million last year is "missing". This encourages art lovers to plead with the Saudi royals to understand where the work is hidden.

"Salvator Mundi" (Savior of the World), the last painting by the great artist Leonardo da Vinci, has not been seen in public since it was acquired by the Louvre in Abu Dhabi, after being bought by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in $ 450.3 million in New York last year.

Now, art critics and painting lovers are increasingly concerned about the fate of the painting, reports the Daily Mail.

Professor Martin Kemp, a researcher who helped authenticate the play a decade ago, told the Times:

"No one outside the immediate Arab hierarchy knows where he is."

In 2005, the painting was purchased for less than $ 10,000 at an auction in New Orleans by a consortium of art dealers.

When asked where this 500-year-old paint might be, he answered rather worrisively: "I have no idea. The mystery of its location is of course disturbing. "