Christie's confirms 'Mona Lisa' from a French antique shop is not a Leonardo da Vinci
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Christie's confirms 'Mona Lisa' from a French antique shop is non a Leonardo da Vinci
(Photo: AFP/Martin Bureau)
Raymond Hekking spent decades trying to convince the earth that the Mona Lisa painting he bought from a French antique shop in 1953 was the real thing and the one in the Louvre Museum was a fake.
Now Christie's auction house has put the 'Hekking Mona Lisa' up for sale, hoping the story of his campaign to realise his dream will help compensate for the fact it is a copy.
"It looks like the Mona Lisa merely the quality of the execution is not Leonardo da Vinci," Christie'southward International Manager of Old Master Painting Pierre Etienne said.
"Unfortunately on that bespeak the dream is a flake over."
Hekking's argument was that the original painting was never returned later an early 20th century theft, ending up in the store in the village of Magagnosc in his native Provence while the gallery in the French capital was duped by a copy.
Numerous newspaper cuttings testify to his badgering of the media and a Pathe newsreel detail from the 1960s shows United states journalists turning up to audit the copy when the actual Mona Lisa was loaned to the The states.
The painting was done by an unknown artist in the early on 17th century, around 100 years after the original by the Italian Renaissance main entered the imperial collection of Francois I, Christie's said.
It has a guide price of 200,000-300,000 euros and the online auction ends on June eighteen.
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