Monet's 'Irises' Sold for €50 Million — a Record for French Auctions
Claude Monet's monumental painting 'Irises' sold at Sotheby's in Paris for €50 million including the buyer's premium, becoming the most expensive work of art ever sold at auction in France. The canvas, previously known only from a black-and-white photograph, had never left the Schlumberger family's mansion. Three Cézanne works were withdrawn from the sale.
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