There’s always something breathtaking about the prices great art can fetch but the sale of Leonardo’s ‘Salvator Mundi’ at Christie’s back in 2017 sounds from the audio (which memorably opens Westside Gunn’s hip hop extravaganza Pray for Paris) like something out of a film. It went for a cool US$450 million and the fabulous far-fetchedness is compounded by ignorance.
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