“Chop Suey“, a 1929 work by the celebrated New York-born painter, Edwar Hopper has sold at auction in New York for nearly $92 million (£70.7 million).
A painting of a Chinese restaurant in Manhattan reached a final sale price that more than doubled the previous record for an Edward Hopper painting, formerly held by East Wind Over Weehawken, which sold for $40.4 million in 2013 and thus become a record for the artist and a world auction record for the category of American Art.
Edward Hopper’s Chop Suey Painting
The sale of Hopper’s last known painting in private hands was a “magical result for a magical painting,” Christie’s Americas Chairman Marc Porter said at a news conference after the auction, adding that the prized work is “one that we’re very proud to handle, and hope to see again hanging soon.”
It was one of 91 modern American art paintings put up for auction by the estate of US entrepreneur Barney Ebsworth, who died in April.
Willem de Kooning’s 1955 Woman as Landscape sold at the same Christie’s auction for $68.9 million.
Edward Hopper’s Chop Suey Painting
