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“Noting that it was never clear how Abu Dhabi might have acquired the painting from the Saudis in the first place...some have speculated that Crown Prince Mohammed might simply have decided to keep it.”
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“The anonymous buyer at the auction in NY, Prince Bader bin Abdullah bin Mohammed bin Farhan al-Saud, was a little known member of a distant branch of the Saudi royal family with no publicly known source of great wealth or history as a major art collector.”
“But he was a close friend and confidant of Crown Prince Mohammed. A few months after the auction, the royal court named Prince Bader as the kingdom’s first-ever minister of culture.”
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