{"id":654171,"date":"2026-10-22T21:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T21:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/654171\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T21:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T21:00:09","slug":"monets-iris-fetches-50-mn-euros-at-paris-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/654171\/","title":{"rendered":"Monet’s ‘Iris’ fetches 50 mn euros at Paris auction"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n “Iris,” a monumental painting by Impressionist Claude Monet, sold for 50 million euros ($56 million) including buyer fees in Paris on Thursday, becoming the most expensive artwork ever sold at auction in France.<\/p>\n

The 1.60 metre high and 1.80 metre wide work had never left the billionaire Schlumberger family’s mansion in Paris and was known only through a black-and-white photograph.<\/p>\n

It was acquired by Jeanne Schlumberger (1889\u20131983), according to Thomas Bompard, co-head of the Modern and Contemporary Art Department at Sotheby’s France.<\/p>\n

“Iris” had been estimated at between 22 and 30 million euros, \u201cthe highest valuation ever given to a painting offered at auction in France,\u201d Sotheby\u2019s noted when presenting the sale.<\/p>\n

It was painted by Monet in his twilight years.<\/p>\n

Alongside “Iris”, three other canvases by Monet were included in the sale, among them “Saule Pleureur” (Weeping Willow), valued at 9-12 million euros.<\/p>\n

The sale comes in the year marking the centenary of Monet’s death on December 5, 1926, which is being commemorated by two Paris exhibitions — “Monet, Painting Time” and “Stories of Landscapes, from Monet to Hockney.”<\/p>\n

Three paintings by Paul Cezanne classified as “national treasures” were withdrawn from the sale a few hours before the auction began “with a view to their return to the artist’s hometown, Aix-en-Provence,” Sotheby\u2019s said.<\/p>\n

It followed an agreement between the current owners and the city of Aix-en-Provence, which, with the support of the French culture ministry, is considering acquiring these works.<\/p>\n

Another Paris auction on Thursday by Christie’s saw 26 works being sold, including two Monet paintings — “Bord des falaises a Pourville”, which went for 12.7 million euros and “Trois pots de tulipes”, which sold for 3.1 million euros.<\/p>\n

A work by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, “Jeunes filles au bord de la mer,” fetched 5.8 million euros, while “Nature morte au gruyere” by Pablo Picasso sold for 3 million euros.<\/p>\n

The total amount of Christie\u2019s sale was 41.6 million euros, buyers fees included.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“Iris,” a monumental painting by Impressionist Claude Monet, sold for 50 million euros ($56 million) including buyer fees…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":654172,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[146,85,46],"class_list":["post-654171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}