Monet Painting Becomes Most Expensive Artwork Ever Sold at Auction in France
The sale set a new auction record in France after six bidders drove the price far above its 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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"Iris," a major work by the French Impressionist painter Claude Monet, was auctioned in Paris for 50 million euros, setting a record as the most expensive work of art ever sold in France.
At Rs 531 crore, Claude Monets Iris becomes most expensive artwork sold at auction in France: Sothebys - The Tribune
Claude Monet’s “Iris” was sold late on Thursday for €50 million (approx Rs 531.81 crore), becoming the most expensive work of art sold at auction in France, Sotheby’s said. The painting, completed toward the end of Monet’s life, attracted frantic bidding with six people battling it out for 45 minutes for the piece, before the […]
Claude Monet’s ‘Iris’ becomes most expensive artwork sold at auction in France, Sotheby’s says
PARIS, Oct 23 (Reuters) - Claude Monet's "Iris" was sold late on Thursday for €50 million ($56.05 million), becoming the most expensive work of art sold at auction in France, Sotheby's said. The painting, completed toward the end of Monet's life,...
Claude Monet's painting Iris, painted between 1924 and 1925, went off the hammer at Sotheby's in Paris for $56 million.
A painting by French impressionist Claude Monet that has never been exhibited in public has sold for a record 50 million euros at auction in Paris, the highest price ever paid for a work of art at auction in France, Sotheby's said. The painting, "Iris," from the late painter's work, had been estimated at 22-30 million euros before the auction.
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