This Monet ‘Iris’ Painting Could Fetch $34 Million at Auction

In October, Sotheby’s Paris is auctioning a never-before publicly shown, stunning Claude Monet painting from the artist’s “Iris” series (1914–17 and 1924–25), kept for decades in the Jeanne Schlumberger collection, carrying an estimate of €22 to €30 million ($25 to $34 million). Painted just one year before he died in 1926, the eponymous abstracted painting of purple and yellow irises reflecting on water is set to break the country’s auction record for a sold painting,…