Claude Monet’s Vétheuil, effet de soleil sold for $5,458,500 at Christie's 3 November Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale in New York. The painting, a sun-drenched view of the picturesque village painted in 1901, is one of 15 views in the Vétheuil series, seven of which are now housed in major museum collections around the world, including the Musée D'Orsay and the Pushkin Museum. (RT: 1:25)