dick paul is president of christy's for europe the middle east russia and india. if anyone can explain why works of art can be so mind bogglingly expensive it's him. because it's not the value of an artwork is first and foremost its aesthetic value its cultural value and that's determined by art history and the canon and today there's a consensus that because it was an interesting artist. when someone buys a piece for such a crazy price is out of love for art of mine environment is that my experience the overwhelming majority of collectors we encounter i know personally are indeed interested in the art and not just in art as investment though of course there are investors as well versed on the work that fetched the highest price ever was sold at christie's in new york in twenty seventeen salvator monday a portrait of jesus from around fifteen zero three ascribed by some experts to leonardo da vinci. two hundred million is so you are good million two hundred million two hundred thirty two out of it is big it may be a significant or even important work of art but it

and how did dick laird and paul tatsuguchi, how did they collide? k laird looks up the knoll and sees that a group of japanese soldiers has captured an american mortar. and so, laird pulls out two grenades. he pulls the pin, and then he throws it. the grenade explodes, and laird finds that some troops who are alive. and he and a fellow soldier kill them. >> wertheim: he kills eight japanese men. >> obmascik: he does. and he wins the silver star for it. >> wertheim: on one of them, he notices something unusual. what was that? >> obmascik: there is an address book that's full of some names from california. and there is a sheet, the diary. >> wertheim: whose personal effects were those? >> obmascik: he found the diary of paul tatsuguchi, whom he had killed as tatsuguchi was joinint and the japanese occupation ofet day, w500 defe soldiers gd on this harry sasser witnessed the mass suicide. >> sasser: they pulled the trigger on a hand grenade and just blew their stomach out. >> draggan mihailovich: a gruesome scene? >> sasser: it was, oh, it was. it was--