This Rare Blue Diamond Could Be the Most Expensive Jewel Sold at Auction

What will $50 million get you at auction? Last month, Sotheby’s sold Sandro Botticelli’s Man of Sorrows painting for $45.5 million, and today it announced it is offering another masterpiece that’s worth at least $48 million: a rare 15.10-carat fancy vivid blue diamond. How rare and unusual is this jewel? “Only five other vivid blue diamonds over 10 carats have ever come to auction,” says Patti Wong, chairman of Sotheby’s Asia. In comparison, she points out that the auction house has sold many more paintings by Picasso and Monet over the past 20 years. Known as the De Beers Cullinan… Read Full Article