Price paid for most expensive paintings ever sold Published by Aaron O'Neill , Jun 21, 2022 The most expensive painting ever sold was Salvator Mundi, painted by Leonardo Da Vinci Leonardo da Vinci's 500-year-old painting "Salvator Mundi" has broken the record for the most expensive artwork ever sold at auction, selling for an eye-watering $450,312,500, including buyer fees. Leonardo da Vinci Rediscovered (warning: expensive): An authoritative four volume study that was published in the 500th anniversary of the polymath's death. This definitive account of Leonardo "Salvator Mundi," a 600-year-old painting by Leonardo da Vinci, had just sold for $450 million. It was the most expensive painting ever sold at auction. What makes the stratospheric price even Leonardo da Vinci's "Salvator Mundi" has become the most expensive artwork to ever sell at auction, going for $450.3 million at Christie's in New York. Dating back to around 1500, the But for many in the initially jam-packed Rockefeller Plaza salesroom, the auction lasted the 19 minutes it took to sell a single work for $400 million ($450 million with fees), making it the most expensive piece ever purchased at auction, and likely the most expensive artwork ever sold. Portrait of Mona Lisa del Giocondo, 1503-1506, by Leonardo da Vinci, the most expensive painting in the world Leonardo da Vinci's famed Mona Lisa has belonged to the Louvre Museum collection in Paris since 1804, and it is a star attraction that draws in thousands of tourists every year. A long-lost Leonardo da Vinci painting, which depicts Jesus Christ, sold at auction for more than $450 million on Nov. 15, 2017. (Image credit: Leonardo da Vinci) The 30 Most Expensive Paintings Ever Sold Salvator Mundi (1500) by Leonardo da Vinci. At an auction held at Christie's New York in 2016 during a contemporary art Interchange (1955) by Willem de Kooning. Willem de Kooning, the Dutch-American painter, created this famous work of The Card Players Salvator Mundi, the long-lost Leonardo da Vinci painting of Jesus Christ commissioned by King Louis XII of France more than 500 years ago, has sold at Christie's in New York for $450.3m, Cqo7B.