Andreas Koefoed

director of “The Lost Leonardo”

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The art world was stunned in 2017 when an anonymous bidder at Christie’s auction house offered the highest amount ever for a single painting.

A $450 million painting believed to be by Leonardo da Vinci become a pawn in geopolitical power

The art world was stunned in 2017 when an anonymous bidder at Christie’s auction house offered the highest amount ever for a single painting.

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