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Who owns 2nd Mona Lisa!

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With her straight dark hair and beguiling smile, the so-called "Isleworth Mona Lisa" bears an uncanny resemblance to her namesake in the Louvre.
To some experts, these similarities suggest the painting is a mere copy, though a handftil of art historians believe it to be an earlier, unfinished version by Leonardo da Vinci himself.
This debate has raged for decades. But now the portrait stands at the center of a new dispute: an impending legal battle over its ownership. And if 2017's record-breaking sale of another disputed Leonardo — the "Salvator Mundi," whose authentication is still hotly debated - is anything to go by, there could be millions of dollars at stake.
Known to some as the "Earlier Mona Lisa," the painting has spent much of the past five decades hidden in a Swiss bank vault. Acquired by a
secretive consortium in 2008, the painting has since been shown in a number of galleries, most notably in Singapore in 2014 and Shanghai two years later.
Then, in June, it went on display at Florence's Palazzo Bastogi — the first time it has been seen in public in Europe this century. As the show came to its conclusion, an anonymous claimant made a dramatic legal grab for a quarter ownership of the artwork.
The claimant's lawyer, Giovanni Battista Protti (who, during a telephone interview, would only describe his client as a "distinguished European family"), says he has historical evidence showing that the painting's former owner agreed to sell a 25% stake in the artwork
that was subsequently inherited by his client. Worried that the painting will disappear back into storage in Switzerland, Protti has asked a Florence court to sequester it -essentially impounding the artwork in Italy - while its ownership is investigated. The request will be heard by the court on Monday.
The owners -- or majority owners, in Protti's view - remain anonymous, and thus could not be contacted for response. But a Zurich-based organization called the Mona Lisa Foundation, created to research the painting's history (while insisting that it is "distinct and separate" from the owners), said in an email that the family's case is "without merit.”
The Mona Lisa Foundation has confirmed to CNN that it will be
participating in the court hearing.
The unidentified family's claim is rooted in the painting's colorful recent history. While there are large gaps in its early provenance, art historians trace the work's story back to the early 20th century, when it was discovered by artist and collector Hugh Blaker in an English country house.
Blaker moved the painting to his studio in Isleworth, a west London suburb after which it is now unofficially named. Convinced that it was an earlier portrait of a younger Lisa del Giocondo, the subject of the Louvre's "Mona Lisa," Blaker's stepfather John Eyre published research declaring it to be the work of Leonardo, who was known to produce multiple versions of the same painting.
After Blaker's death, the artwork
was sold to collector Henry F Pulitzer. Like Blaker and Eyre, he was certain it was an authentic Leonardo. The collector even went on to publish the 1966 book "Where is the Mona Lisa?" in which he argued that his painting was, in fact, Leonardo's only portrait of Giocondo.
Pulitzer moved the work into storage in Switzerland in 1975, and, upon his death four years later, it was left to his partner Elizabeth Meyer. When Meyer herself died in 2008, the "Isleworth Mona Lisa" was acquired by the international consortium that currently owns it - and the Mona Lisa Foundation was established that same year to research its origins.
But Protti claims that Meyers only ever owned three-quarters of the painting.