Monet’s never-exhibited ‘Iris’ sells for €50 million, setting a record for art auctioned in France

Claude Monet’s ‘Iris’ sold at Sotheby’s in Paris on October 22 for €50 million ($56 million) including buyer fees, Bloomberg reports. The sale set a record for art auctioned in France. The Straits Times reports that the never-exhibited painting had remained in the Schlumberger family’s Paris home and was previously known only through a black-and-white photograph.