A reproduction of Renaissance master Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece "Mona Lisa" was sold at an auction in France at a high price of about 380 million yen in Japanese yen.
The initial expected bid amount is about 40 million yen
This work is a reproduction that is said to have been drawn in the early 17th century, about 100 years after Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece "Mona Lisa" was produced, and the author is unknown.
At first glance, it looks a lot like the "Mona Lisa" at the Louvre Museum in France, but while the real thing is drawn on a wooden panel, this work uses a canvas, and in the real thing, it is drawn on the background. There are no pillars.
In an online auction held by an auction company in Paris on the 18th, the winning bid was expected to be about 40 million yen at the highest in Japanese yen, and it was 2.9 million euros, about 380 million yen in Japanese yen. It was sold.
According to Reuters news agency, this reproduction was purchased by French collector Raymond Hecking at an antique store in the 1950s, but he continued to claim that it was genuine through media exhibitions and other events. It became a big topic as "Mona Lisa".
Pierre Etienne, an auction company, explained that "experts around the world are not genuine," but said that the auction was sold at a record high price as a reproduction.