Monet leads Christie’s Impressionist and Modern art sale at £9.6m
Christie’s evening sale of Impressionist and Modern Art in London was led by Claude Monet's Iris Mauves as two telephone bidders battled it out over the £6m-9m estimate until the hammer fell at £9.6m.
The picture from 1914-1917 had been purchased by the European vendor at Christie's New York in May 1…