He is America’s most celebrated painter of the solitary realities of 20th century life. But Tuesday night at Christie’s, Edward Hopper joined the unreality of today’s art market when his 1929 painting “Chop Suey” sold for $91.9 million, with fees, an auction high for the artist.
The previous high for Hopper had been $40.5 million back in 2013 (roughly $43.8 million with inflation).
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