The Master, Judd Tully, shows the return on the small Seurat drawing sold at Sotheby’s this week:

Georges Seurat’s Conté-crayon-and-gouache drawing Garconnet assis (Maurice Appert) from circa 1884 sold to a telephone bidder for £1,945,250 ($3,122,126), nearly double its estimates of £750,000–1 million. The page-sized work last sold at auction at Paris’s Ader, Tajan in November 1989 for the equivalent of $691,000.

Sotheby’s Historic Sale (ArtInfo)