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"Salvator Mundi" by Leonardo da Vinci at Christie's auction house in London on Oct. 22, 2017.Tolga Akmenmdash;AFP/Getty Images by [Eli Meixler](https://time.com/author/eli/) ## Eli Meixler Dec 7, 2017 3:13 AM UTC The new owner of _Salvator Mundi_, the Leonardo da Vinci painting that [broke auction house records](http://time.com/5026908/leonardo-da-vinci-salvator-mundi/) when it was sold for $450 million last month, has been revealed as the Saudi Arabian prince Bader bin Abdullah bin Mohammed bin Farhan al-Saud. Bader bin Abdullah [was identified in documents](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/06/world/middleeast/salvator-mundi-da-vinci-saudi-prince-bader.html) reviewed by the New York _Times_ as the buyer of the painting, which was sold at Christie’s in New York on Nov. 15\. The prince is not a previously known art collector, the _Times_ reports, and the sources of his wealth are not publicly known, but he is a close associate of crown prince [Mohammed bin Salman](http://time.com/5018012/saudi-purge-mohammed-bin-salman/), whose far-reaching [anti-corruption purge](http://time.com/5018012/saudi-purge-mohammed-bin-salman/) last month cleared the way to the Saudi throne. On Wednesday, the newly opened [Louvre in Abu Dhabi](http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-42260985) museum in the United Arab Emirates [tweeted an announcement](https://twitter.com/LouvreAbuDhabi/status/938473664818876416) that the painting is “coming”. > [](https://twitter.com/LouvreAbuDhabi/status/938473664818876416) _Salvator Mundi_ has a [controversial history](http://time.com/5028341/leonardo-da-vinci-salvator-mundi-authentication/), with at least one expert doubting that it is the work of Renaissance master da Vinci. It once belonged to King Charles I of England and disappeared for centuries before resurfacing in 1958, having undergone heavy repainting. It was sold for just thousands in 2005 but was bought again in 2013 for $127.5 million by Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev. Christie’s [called the painting’s reemergence](http://time.com/5028341/leonardo-da-vinci-salvator-mundi-authentication/) “the greatest artistic rediscovery of the 21st century.” Little is known about Bader bin Abdullah, who lists his primary source of income as real estate. He will [pay for the painting](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/06/world/middleeast/salvator-mundi-da-vinci-saudi-prince-bader.html) in six monthly installments of $58 million, according to the _Times_. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5053495/salvator-mundi-painting-saudi-prince-buyer/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5053495/salvator-mundi-painting-saudi-prince-buyer/"},"headline":"The Buyer of a Record-Breaking Leonardo Da Vinci Painting Has Been Revealed as a Saudi Prince","datePublished":"2017-12-07T03:13:42.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T18:29:10.183Z","description":"Little is known about Prince Bader bin Abdullah bin Mohammed bin Farhan al-Saud, a friend of crown prince Mohammed bin Salman","url":"https://time.com/5053495/salvator-mundi-painting-saudi-prince-buyer/","keywords":["Art","onetime","overnight"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7d7832b872a8d8df/6988f41f4ee2628822310129/gettyimages-865727392.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Eli Meixler","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/eli/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7d7832b872a8d8df/6988f41f4ee2628822310129/gettyimages-865727392.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"DOUNIAMAG-BRITAIN-US-ENTERTAINMENT-ART-AUCTION-CHRISTIES","caption":"DOUNIAMAG-BRITAIN-US-ENTERTAINMENT-ART-AUCTION-CHRISTIES","creditText":"Tolga Akmenmdash;AFP/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/art/","name":"Art"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5053495/salvator-mundi-painting-saudi-prince-buyer/","name":"The Buyer of a Record-Breaking Leonardo Da Vinci Painting Has Been Revealed as a Saudi Prince"}}]}] ```