“Chop Suey,” a painting of two women sitting at a table in a restaurant by renowned artist Edward Hopper, had long been promised to the Seattle Art Museum. But now it looks like SAM won’t be getting ...

A highly desirable Edward Hopper, one of the American painter’s last from the 1920s that had remained in private hands, shattered the artist’s previous sales record and set a new all-time high for ...

NEW YORK — 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 ...

A painting by American artist Edward Hopper has sold for almost $92 million, becoming the most expensive of the artist’s work to be acquired at auction. “Chop Suey” raised $91,875,000 at Christie’s in ...

In 2007, arts patron Barney Ebsworth told Seattle Art Museum he would give the museum an Edward Hopper painting he owned. The painting was just one artwork in a larger, promised gift to the museum ...

Edward Hopper’s Chop Suey sold for nearly $92 million, with fees, to an anonymous buyer Tuesday night at a Christie’s auction of Barney A. Ebsworth’s collection in New York. The sale is a record for ...

Relativity isn't confined to Einstein. It applies in the art world, too. The most recent example: the Christie's auction sale last week of "Chop Suey," Edward Hopper's 1929 painting, which hit a ...

This month, the New York auction house Christie’s sold a painting by Edward Hopper for a princely sum. Hopper’s 1929 work “Chop Suey” — depicting a pair of women in flapper hats seated inside a ...