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Most Expensive Stone Statues Ever Sold | Top 10

4Marble Group of Leda and the Swan – $19.122.500 million

‘Leda and the Swan’ is story from Greek mythology, in which Zeus came in form of a swan and seduces Leda.
Of course, she got pregnant. Some versions said that she laid 2 eggs from which her children hatched, Helen and Polydeuces.

Also, it is said that Zeus seduced Leda on the same night in which she slept with King Tyndareus, her husband.
Again, she got pregnant, with another 2 children, Castor and Clytemnestra.

This is a Roman replica of a Greek statue from the 300’s B.C. and was sold for over $19 million by Sotheby’s.

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