Salvator Mundi, the last known da Vinci painting in private hands, has an incredible
provenance. Rybolovlev purchased it for $127 million in 2013 through his art dealer, the
Swiss businessman Yves Bouvier. Bouvier, the owner and operator of several freeports,
bought the painting for $80 million with the intention of selling it to Rybolovlev at a steep
profit. Its owner before Bouvier, the New York City-based gallerist Robert Simon, found
the painting at an estate auction in New Orleans in 2005. He paid just $10,000.