![]() ![]() Raised in Kirkwood, Missouri, Sarah Paulsen is an artist, filmmaker and community organizer whose artwork has been exhibited widely in local and national exhibitions, and whose prize-winning films have been featured in the St. With these mediums, I enjoy telling the story of a person or place. Primarily I work with paint, but I have been animating my paintings and collages for the past ten years. I make work about subcultures, outsiders, and the informal configurations of community. This is an oil painting with areas of gold leaf as ethereal, royal, and textural moments. I hope the looseness of this painting lets these qualities breathe. Finally, Prince played with fluidity in his own identity and public image- he could be masculine or feminine, he could appear as a person of multiple ethnicities (something he apparently used to trick the press). Hearing descriptions of Prince in relationships- I learned about his sense of presence and the erotic. Prince worked in the tradition of religious and secular music and advocated being a fully sexual person. During a recent listen to the podcast “Who was Prince?” by Toure, I was struck by how he described the manner in which Prince was trying to be both spiritual and sexual. Inspired by a 1980 Rolling Stones Cover, I was intrigued by the fuzziness of the source image and wanted to retain this quality and abstract the image, in service of conveying these qualities. The incident has reportedly caused a minor diplomatic riff between France and Saudi Arabia.Īntoine Vitkine’s film “Savior For Sale ” will be broadcast in France on channel France 5 on April 13.This loose and abstract oil painting depicts the fluidity and spiritual and sexual nature of Prince. Ultimately, President Emmanuel Macron rejected Saudi demands and the French museum never exhibited the painting. The prince’s conditions were that the Louvre must exhibit the Salvator Mundi alongside the Mona Lisa and present it as “a 100%” Leonardo da Vinci. The film reportedly features several senior officials from President Emmanuel Macron's government, appearing under pseudonyms, who allege that the crown prince’s offer to lend the painting to the Louvre for the 2019 exhibition had strings attached. The film also reveals what was going on behind the scenes at the Louvre after the Christie’s auction. The painting was restored in the United States, authenticated as a genuine Leonardo by several art experts at the British National Gallery, then sold to a Russian oligarch for $127.5 million two years later. Vitkine’s documentary traces the history of the painting, beginning with its purchase in poor condition for $1,175 by a New York art dealer in 2005. Holy Wow: How did 'Salvator Mundi' go from a $1,175 find to a $127.5 million treasure in two years? TOLGA AKMEN/AFP via Getty Images And Matthew Landrus, an Oxford art historian, speculated publicly that the painting was largely produced by another of Leonardo’s assistants, Bernardino Luini. ![]() In her view, the Salvator Mundi was primarily the work of an assistant, Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio, with only “small retouchings” by Leonardo himself. ![]() Carmen Bambach, an art historian and curator of Italian and Spanish works at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, saying that Christie’s had wrongly included her among scholars who had attributed the painting to Leonardo da Vinci. In his book The Last Leonardo , art critic Ben Lewis also concluded that the painting more than likely came out of Leonardo’s studio and then touched up by the master. (The museum is restricted from publicly commenting on privately owned paintings that it has not exhibited.)Ī string of art historians also weighed in. The Louvre historians had intended to publish their findings but were prevented from doing so when the painting’s owner declined to loan it for the blockbuster Leonardo exhibition in 2019. Then came an enlightening bombshell: A scientific analysis by three experts at the Louvre in Paris concluded that the painting was produced in Leonardo’s workshop but not by the Renaissance master himself. (Photo credit should read MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty AFP via Getty Images A new documentary alleges that Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman refused to lend the "Salvatore Mundi" to the Louvre unless the museum said it was a true work by Leonardo da Vinci. ![]()
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