Since its record-setting sale at Christie’s in 2017, the painting, in which Jesus Christ is depicted emerging from darkness blessing the world with one hand while holding a transparent globe in the other, has never been exhibited in public, triggering doubts about its ownership, whereabouts and authenticity.

Many art experts are split over whether the painting is genuine, saying it was not painted by the Italian master personally but instead by his workshop.

The Wall Street Journal first reported that the painting was bought by Saudi prince Badr bin Abdullah, who acted in the name of the Saudi crown prince, known by his initials MBS.

Riyadh never confirmed or denied that report.

AFP could not corroborate Schachter’s column, and in a nod to the opaque nature of international art sales, he wrote,that Royalite discharged Lozano because of its desire to discourage union activities and that Royalite's stated reason for its action (which we describe below) was pretextual.  As we show below, the evidence in the record was sufficient either with or without these additional considerations.


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Several facts about Lozano's employment at Royalite and his termination are undisputed.  First, Lozano was active in the union organizing campaign.  See Uniroyal I, 98 F.3d at 996.   Second, he was a successful employee at Royalite prior to the time the union organizing campaign began.  He received nothing but glowing performance reviews, he was always willing to fill in on overtime shifts, his supervisors had him train other employees, he wrote a training manual, and he was invited to