The National Gallery is facing controversy over its role in the tangled story of how the world’s most expensive painting emerged from obscurity before being sold for a staggering £320m, only to vanish again from the public eye.
The gallery exhibited the Salvator Mundi in its Leonardo da Vinci exhibition a decade ago when it was an unknown work with doubts about its attribution, restoration and ownership.
The criticisms are voiced in a major film documentary that lifts the lid on some of the murkier dealings of the art market. Professor Bernd Lindemann, the then director of the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin, tells the film-makers: “I was surprised to see the painting
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