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Monet painting sells for 50 million euros, a French record

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Claude Monet’s painting “Iris” sold for 50 million euros, including fees, at Sotheby’s in Paris, becoming the most expensive work ever sold at auction in France. Painted late in the artist’s life and estimated at between 22 and 30 million euros, the canvas was shown to the public for the first time, according to Sotheby’s.

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