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Monet's 'Iris' Fetches 50 Mn Euros at Paris Auction
The late Monet painting drew a 45-minute bidding battle before an Asian buyer won it for €50 million, far above its €22 million to €30 million estimate.
- Claude Monet's painting "Iris" sold at Sotheby's Paris auction yesterday for a record-breaking price, exceeding the 30 million euro estimate and becoming the most expensive painting ever auctioned in France.
- The 1.60 by 1.80 metre work had remained in the billionaire Schlumberger family's Paris mansion, known only through a black-and-white photograph before the auction exposed it to public view.
- Hours before the auction, Sotheby withdrew three Paul Cézanne paintings classified as "national treasures," aiming for their return to the artist's hometown of Aix-en-Provence with French culture ministry support.
- Concurrently, Christie's Paris auction sold 26 works totaling 41.6 million euros, including Monet's "Bord des falaises à Pourville" for 12.7 million and "Trois pots de tulipes" for 3.1 million euros.
- This year marks the centenary of Monet's death on December 5, 1926, commemorated by two Paris exhibitions: "Monet, Painting Time" and "Stories of Landscapes, from Monet to Hockney.
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