Anthony van Dyck Work Sells for $850,900 to Deliver a 2% Annualized Return

Anthony van Dyck, Portrait of a Genoese officer, three-quarter length, in armor, sold for $850,900, more than two and a half times the low estimate at Christie's in New York on February 11.

The sale beat the previous auction result for this work by $790,000, equivalent to an annualized return of 2%. It last sold at auction in 1928 for $60,900 at Christie's.

Oil on canvas, 115.9 x 98.4cm. The work has been traded 6 times in the past.