One of the most popular in America, artists now became one of the most expensive: record set pattern Chop Suey at the auction on November 13 in new-Йорке

Job hopper Chop Suey became the top-лотом auction devoted to the collection of Barney Ebsworth — known collector of American art who died in April of this year. For a long time, the painting promised to the Museum of Seattle, but the heirs decided otherwise and put her up for auction with an unprecedented for the author's estimate — $70-100 million. hopper record was $40.5 million: so many have paid for the work of "East wind over Wyocena" in 2013. After 5 years this record has been exceeded by more than $50 million.

Chop Suey is called popular dish cuisine the Chinese immigrants in the United States — stews, vegetables, soy sauce, meat and spices. Edward Hopper depicted two girls at a table in a Chinese restaurant that serves this stew. And although the girls came together and at a table in the background sits another couple, all the work is imbued with a sense of loneliness so characteristic of the work of the "poet of empty spaces" of the hopper. It is created by laconic interiors, colors, attitudes of the interlocutors, aimed in different directions. No wonder the work of Chop Suey is considered one of the best Hoppers in private hands. The hammer price of it was $85 million, including Commission Buyer's Premium — $91 875 000.

the Material was prepared by Maria Onuchina, AI

Sources: nytimes.com, bbc.com, artinvestment.ru