Norman Rockwell favorite sells for $46 million
Norman Rockwell, long America’s favorite mass-market painter, now has auction records to match his popularity. Saying Grace, one of his masterpieces, sold for $46 million at auction on December 4—a price three times higher than his previous record.
Two other iconic paintings by Rockwell, who died in 1978, also sold Wednesday, for a total of nearly $12 million, according to the Associated Press.
It was Grace that drew all eyes at Sotheby’s in New York. It is an affecting image of a crowded restaurant with a little boy and a woman bowed in prayer at their table as other diners look on.
