"Salvator Mundi! The Musical—tale of world's most expensive painting to be turned into a stage blockbuster!"
The Art Newspaper discovered that Caiola Productions has plans to put on the show about the most expensive painting/forgery of all time. The producers claim it will be a "Hamilton meets Willy Wonka" affair landing in New York sometime in 2022.
I would prefer to see a drama on the backstory of painter/model relationships such as Tamara Lempicka, Lucien Freud, and others, but enough about my problems. BTW, Tamara Lempicka is a better painter than Freud, YMMV
Back on topic:
"… "It will follow the story of how a shredded, scratched wooden panel painting of Jesus purchased for $1,100 in 2005, evolved to become the Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece—lost for over 500 years—titled Salvator Mundi that in 2017 was auctioned at Christie's auction house for over $450m," says a Caiola Productions statement. At the 2005 auction, possibly in Louisiana or Virginia, the work is thought to have sold for less than $10,000. …"
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