How much did the most expensive painting ever sold go for?

Money hard Data from 2017

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Answer in dollars. Shorthand like 9m or 1.2bn works.

The answer

$450,300,000

Roughly $450.3M.

Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi sold at Christie’s in 2017 for $450.3 million including fees, nearly doubling the previous record in a single sale. Its attribution to Leonardo remains disputed by some scholars, and the painting has not been publicly exhibited since.

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Source Christie’s auction results
Figure refers to 2017
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