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Degas Bronze Sells for $1.68M to Deliver a 4% Annualized Return

3 min read  ·  19 Nov 2024

Edgar Degas, Grande arabesque, troisième temps. Image courtesy of Sotheby's

Edgar Degas, Grande arabesque, troisième temps. Image courtesy of Sotheby's

Edgar Degas, Edgar Degas, Grande arabesque, troisième temps (1919) sold for $1.68m, more than four times the low estimate at Sotheby's in New York on November 18.

The sale beat the previous auction result for this work by $1.39m, equivalent to an annualized return of 4%. It last sold at auction in 1986 for $286,900 at Sotheby's.

Bronze. The work has been traded 8 times in the past.