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Monet's Iris Sells for 50M: Colour Available on Request
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What BBN said on air. The facts are in the original report: Reuters.
Gloria VanceClaude Monet's Iris sold in Paris for fifty million euros, a record for any artwork at auction in France, Sotheby's says.
Gloria VanceThe estimate was twenty-two to thirty million.
Vera BullockAnd I've never seen it. Has anybody?
Gloria VanceAlmost no one. It was never exhibited, and Agerpres reports it was known only through a black-and-white photograph.
Gloria VanceThe collector who owned it did not lend her paintings out.
Vera BullockA black-and-white Monet. I assume the brochure says colour is available on request.
Gloria VanceSix collectors bid for forty-five minutes. It went to a private buyer in Asia, on the phone with Sotheby's deputy chairman.
Vera BullockDoes this affect me? I own a poster. Nobody bid on it for forty-five minutes.
Gloria VanceNot unless your poster is a Monet. The old record for an Iris was ten point eight million pounds, in twenty fifteen.
Gloria VanceThree Cézannes were pulled from the sale hours before it.
Vera BullockSo the buyer got a painting nobody's seen, and the photo is still in black and white.
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