New York - Rockwell sets record
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A Norman Rockwell painting titled “Saying Grace” has sold in New York for US$46 million, the highest price paid for any work sold at a US art auction and for a work by the illustrator.
Sotheby’s auction house says two people on the telephone bid against each other for nine minutes before the hammer came down on Wednesday. The buyer’s identity hasn’t been disclosed.
“Saying Grace” depicts a train station restaurant with a woman and her grandson bowed in prayer at their table. It had a pre-sale estimate of US$15 million to US$20 million. Sotheby’s sold Rockwell’s “Breaking Home Ties” in 2006 for over US$15 million, then a record. The previous record at an auction of American art was US$27.7 million at Sotheby’s in 1999 for a work by George Bellows titled “Polo Crowd.”
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