€50m Monet Sets Record as Most Expensive Artwork Auctioned in France
A Monet painting has become the priciest artwork ever sold at auction in France, fetching €50m through Sotheby's in Paris. The sale also established a fresh French auction benchmark for Monet, displacing a record that had stood for only a matter of hours after being set at Christie's earlier the same day. Sotheby's handled the Paris sale. The result places the transaction at the summit of the French auction market, surpassing the Christie's figure recorded shortly before. The identity of the buyer and the specific Monet work were not detailed in the source material.
Key facts
- A Monet sold for €50m at auction in France
- The sale was conducted by Sotheby's in Paris
- It is the most expensive artwork ever auctioned in France
- The result set a new French auction record for Monet
- The prior Monet record was set at Christie's just hours earlier
- The Christie's record was toppled by the Sotheby's sale
- The sale took place in Paris
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- Paris
- France
- Giverny