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Prices for works by Vincent van Gogh continued on a roll Monday with the London auction of the painter’s 1887 work “Romans Parisiens (Les Livres Jaunes)” for $12.16 million--more than twice the $5.1 million expected for the painting. “Romans Parisiens” is the first painting Van Gogh officially exhibited at the fourth Salon des Independents in Paris in 1888. Also sold by Christie’s in the same auction was “La Maison Bleue” (The Blue House) by Claude Monet--for a cool $6.55 million--and a work by Marc Chagall, “Paris, La Grande Roue” (Paris, The Big Wheel), which went for $2.8 million. The Monet sale price was the highest ever for a work by the French Impressionist.