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'The Leonardo and the Carpet Dealer': the secretive first campaign to sell the Salvator Mundi
'The Leonardo and the Carpet Dealer': the secretive first campaign to sell the Salvator Mundi,Respected textiles scholar and dealer Michael Franses was employed in 2009, by one of the syndicate who owned the painting, to offer it for sale to a handful of the world's leading museums

'The Leonardo and the Carpet Dealer': the secretive first campaign to sell the Salvator Mundi

Respected textiles scholar and dealer Michael Franses was employed in 2009, by one of the syndicate who owned the painting, to offer it for sale to a handful of the world's leading museums