Sale Of Mona Lisa Replica Set To Raise Up To $365,000

 A duplicate of the Mona Lisa which turned into passionately defended through its proprietor withinside the Sixties because the authentic Leonardo de Vinci canvas is to move on sale this week in Paris, in which it's far predicted to elevate as much as 300,000 euros ($365,000).

Paris: A duplicate of the Mona Lisa which turned into passionately defended through its proprietor withinside the Sixties because the authentic Leonardo de Vinci canvas is to move on sale this week in Paris, in which it's far predicted to elevate as much as 300,000 euros ($365,000).

The portray is referred to as the "Mona Lisa Hekking", named after Raymond Hekking, an artwork supplier primarily based totally withinside the south of France who forged doubt at the authenticity of the authentic masterpiece owned through the Louvre museum in Paris.

After shopping for his model withinside the Riviera metropolis of Nice, Hekking succeeded in drawing artwork historians and newshounds to his domestic to look at his buy whilst insisting that the Louvre owned the fake.

Auction residence Christie's is to position the paintings on sale on Friday, with the first-class of the replica and the uncommon lower back tale placing the duplicate aside from different variations of one of the maximum copied art work withinside the world.

"This paintings and its records illustrate the fascination that the Mona Lisa and the air of secrecy of Leonardo da Vinci have continually held," the public sale residence says on its website, estimating the rate at 200,000-300,000 euros.

The authentic Mona Lisa turned into stolen from the Louvre in 1911 through Italian Vincenzo Perugia, handiest to be lower back 3 years later.

Hekking wrongly claimed that the lower back canvas turned into now no longer the authentic.

Upon his loss of life in 1977, his duplicate turned into surpassed directly to his own circle of relatives who've determined to position it up for sale.