Christie's got away with an error in attribution Picture Da Vinci

[Евгений]

The court refused to examine the claim of Great Britain resident Gene Marchig to the auction house Christie's, according to Reuters. Briton accused the auctioneers that they were unable to find a figure belonging to her hand of Leonardo da Vinci, attributing his unknown German painter of the XIX century.

The court refused to accept the claim because this error was made too long ago: the drawing was sold in 1989, the authorship of Leonardo was established in 2009, and the court Marchig applied only in the spring of 2010. Marchig intends to continue to sue the auction house or not, is not specified.

Drawing titled La Bella Principessa was sold for 21,000 dollars. In 2009, experts have declared that the author of the picture is in fact a Leonardo da Vinci, and its value has increased hundreds of times. Figure insured for $ 100 million, but its value could reach 150 million.

Nevertheless, the fact that the author of the drawing - Leonardo, sure, not all experts. In particular, Jacques Franck, an expert on Da Vinci of the University of California, said earlier that your image has anatomical errors.