The same fate befell the copy of “Little fourteen-year-old ballerina” which was sold for 41.6 million dollars, the highest price at auction for a work by Degas (1834-1917), whose original work is exhibited at the National Gallery of Art of Washington.
The original work of the French artist is a bronze with brown patina that represents with realism and perfect details a young dancer in her muslin dress, with a ribbon in her hair.
The copy is one of the replicas made ten years after the death of the French impressionist by the founder Adrien-Aurélien Hébrard, which did not prevent a new record for Degas from being broken. The previous one, reached in 2015 in London, was 22.2 million euros and belonged to another version of the little ballerina, the AFP news agency reported.
The sculpture, which had been appraised between 20 and 30 million by Christie’s, was part of a dozen pieces in the collection of Anne Bass, an American businesswoman who died in 2020 and patron of several major museums in the United States and the New York ballet. In addition, she was the wife of billionaire and heir to an oil empire in Texas, Sid Bass.
All the works were exhibited while he was alive in his luxurious apartment on Manhattan’s 5th Avenue: among them, two paintings by the American expressionist Marc Rothko (1903-1970), whose “Untitled (Shades of red)” sold for 66.8 million of dollars; and three paintings by Claude Monet (1840-1926). “Parliament, Sunset,” a dark but luminous oil on canvas, sold for $75.96 million.
On Monday night, the work of the painter from Malaga “Mujeres de Algiers (version 0)”, which became the most expensive of the 20th century at auction when it sold for 179.4 million dollars in 2015, was surpassed in amount for a portrait of Marilyn Monroe by Andy Warhol, which fetched $195 million.
Source: Ambito
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