Edgar Degas
1834-1917 · French · Impressionism
Auction record: $41.61M
Petite danseuse de quatorze ans (bronze, cast 1927), 1879-1881 · Christie's, New York · May 12, 2022
Source: heni.com
Biography
Edgar Degas was a founding exhibitor of the Impressionist group in Paris, although he preferred to call himself a realist. Trained in the academic tradition and devoted to drawing, he is best known for his dancers, racecourses, cafe scenes and women bathing, often seen from unusual, cropped viewpoints. He worked across oil, pastel, monotype, printmaking and sculpture, and the wax figures found in his studio were cast in bronze after his death. For the market, Degas is one of the deepest Impressionist names: pastels and bronze casts appear regularly in New York and London evening sales, and his auction record belongs to a bronze cast of the Little Dancer Aged Fourteen, sold for 41.6 million dollars in 2022.
Recent auction results
| Femme à sa toilette (1894, pastel)Sotheby's, New York | $4.27M | May 19, 2026 | heni.com |
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| Scène de ballet (1885, oil on canvas)Sotheby's, London | $4.29M | Mar 4, 2026 | heni.com |
| Trois danseuses (1897, pastel)Sotheby's, New York | $5.78M | Nov 20, 2025 | heni.com |
| Arlequin (1885, pastel)Christie's, New York | $533K | Nov 18, 2025 | heni.com |
Market
- Liquidity: High
Museums
- Musée d'Orsay, Parigi
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
- National Gallery of Art, Washington
- Art Institute of Chicago
Sources
- HENI News, Petite danseuse record
- HENI News, Trois danseuses
- HENI News, Scène de ballet
- HENI News, Femme à sa toilette
- HENI News, Arlequin
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