NEW YORK, N.Y.- Christie’s announces its Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale on November 1st will be led by Edgar Degas’ Petite danseuse de quatorze ans, the most celebrated sculpture to have emerged from the Impressionist era. With its unflinching realism, bold and unconventional combination of materials, and staunch rejection of idealized grace, Petite danseuse represents a defining moment in Degas’s career, when he made a daring and controversial break with academic tradition to embrace a new modernist aesthetic unlike any seen before. This iconic work of art is estimated at $25 – 35 million, and is poised to become one of the top-selling works of Impressionist art to reach the auction block this season.