Degas’ Les Choristes dates from around 1876
Police have arrested a man over the theft of an artwork by the Impressionist artist Edgar Degas from a museum in Marseilles.

French and Italian could be heard throughout Christie’s salesroom Tuesday night as the fall auction season began unsteadily: While there were some strong prices, there also expensive failures.
It was a thin sale of Impressionist and modern art, with just 40 works on offer and prices that fell below estimates. The evening totaled $65.6 million but [...]

The wax figure was found in the artist’s studio following his death in 1917 and cast in bronze in 1922: Degas’ Little Dancer
Created in wax circa 1879-81, The Little Dancer was the only sculpture Degas exhibited during his lifetime. The bronze figure, one of only a handful of casts remaining in private hands, is expected [...]

“Dancer in Repose’’ (1879) by Edgar Degas
Henry and Marie-Josée Kravis bought this painting at Sotheby’s in London in 1999 for $27.9 million. This year they were given a guaranteed price that experts say is over $40 million by Sotheby’s.

Four paintings by Van Gogh, Cézanne, Degas and Monet worth an estimated SFR180m (£84m) have been stolen from a museum in Switzerland, police said today.
Zurich police said Cezanne’s Boy in the Red Waistcoat, Monet’s Poppy Field at Vetheuil, Ludovic Lepic and his Daughter, by Edgar Degas, and Vincent van Gogh’s Blooming Chestnut Branches were stolen. [...]