At an auction held at Christie’s New York in 2016 during a contemporary art event, Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi turned into the most expensive painting ever sold, it was sold for $ 450,300,000 million at the end of a nineteen-minute bidding war. The winner was later be announced as the Prince of Saudi Arabia. The drawing shows Christ holding an orb in one hand, and making the sign of the cross with the other.
For many years it was thought that a copy of another lost artist of da Vinci's paintings, however, when it was restored in 2006, many notable features as part of the king's work became clear and restored to him. The painting was exhibited at the National Gallery in London for 5 years before being auctioned off.