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Degas Dancer estimated at US$25-35 million to lead Christie’s Impressionist and Modern evening sale

NEW YORK, N.Y.- Christie’s announces its Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale on November 1 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. “Petite danseuse ranks among the most-loved of all Impressionist works, and continues to cast a spell over museum visitors the world over. It is a signal honor for Christie’s to have b