Selling Leonardo: The Art World’s Greatest Scandal: A Memoir
Ebook
The infamous Salvator Mundi painting sold in 2017 for $450.3 million, garnering worldwide attention. News stories had everyone thinking that this painting was made by the legendary Renaissance artist, Leonardo da Vinci. However, something major was left out of those headlines. Many da Vinci experts did not believe that he created the work. Several years after the notorious sale, an unknown American artist was presented with the opportunity of a lifetime. Every year, thousands of artists from around the world apply to be an official Copyist at the Louvre Museum in Paris. While only a few are selected, this artist was somehow chosen for the program. As he prepared for his art to be shown in the Louvre, he came across the many people involved with the Salvator Mundi, exposing a dark mystery across continents. Selling Leonardo is an adventurous true story that lifts the curtain of the secretive, high-stakes art world.
“With the establishment of his credentials, Alex LaFollette takes us into a world of copyists, restorers, provenances, oligarchs, and greed. Throw in a murder plus a massive attempt at remaking a public image, and you have a well-paced read that builds a foundational premise of fraud and its true cost to us and the art world.”
—Doug Ray, former executive, International Flooring Associations
- Title: Selling Leonardo: The Art World’s Greatest Scandal
- Author: Alex LaFollette
- Publisher: Resource Publications
- Print Publication Date: 2023
- Logos Release Date: 2023
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781666769173, 9781666769166, 1666769169, 9781666769159, 1666769150, 1666769177
- Resource ID: LLS:9781666769173
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2023-04-25T01:07:59Z
Alex LaFollette is a writer and artist based in the great Pacific Northwest.