Part One of
Christie's sale of An American Place: The Barney A. Ebsworth Collection
totaled 317,801,250,USD with 88% sold by lot,and 99% sold by
value.
Edward Hopper's Chop Suey, 1929, the most important work by the
artist still in private hands, achieved $91,875,000, a record for the artist and
the category of American Art. Willem de Kooning's Woman as
Landscape also set an artist record at 68,937,500 dollars, and
Jackson Pollock's Composition with Red Strokes sold for
55,437,500. Additional auction records were achieved for Arshile
Gorky, John Marin, Joseph Stella, Gaston Lachaise, Tom Otterness, Leon
Polk Smith, Suzy Frelinghuysen,George Tooker,
David Smith,Francis Criss, Charles Green Shaw, and Patrick Henry Bruce.
The late Mr. Ebsworth was a renowned collector and entrepreneur who was named
one of the 'World's 200 Greatest Collectors'. He notably
founded cruise lines and the Intrav luxury travel business. His
passion for art originated during his station with the US Army in France
in 1956, when he made weekly trips tothe Louvre. When he became a
collector his motto was"quality, quality, quality," and
with that mindset he amassed the most
comprehensive collection of American Modernism in private hands which he
housed at home in Seattle,in a custom-built house
he designed in collaboration with architect Jim Olson, and named"An
American Place" in tribute to the former Alfred
Stieglitz gallery.
Part One of
Christie's sale of An American Place: The Barney A. Ebsworth Collection
totaled 317,801,250,USD with 88% sold by lot,and 99% sold by
value.
Edward Hopper's Chop Suey, 1929, the most important work by the
artist still in private hands, achieved $91,875,000, a record for the artist and
the category of American Art. Willem de Kooning's Woman as
Landscape also set an artist record at 68,937,500 dollars, and
Jackson Pollock's Composition with Red Strokes sold for
55,437,500. Additional auction records were achieved for Arshile
Gorky, John Marin, Joseph Stella, Gaston Lachaise, Tom Otterness, Leon
Polk Smith, Suzy Frelinghuysen,George Tooker,
David Smith,Francis Criss, Charles Green Shaw, and Patrick Henry Bruce.
The late Mr. Ebsworth was a renowned collector and entrepreneur who was named
one of the 'World's 200 Greatest Collectors'. He notably
founded cruise lines and the Intrav luxury travel business. His
passion for art originated during his station with the US Army in France
in 1956, when he made weekly trips tothe Louvre. When he became a
collector his motto was"quality, quality, quality," and
with that mindset he amassed the most
comprehensive collection of American Modernism in private hands which he
housed at home in Seattle,in a custom-built house
he designed in collaboration with architect Jim Olson, and named"An
American Place" in tribute to the former Alfred
Stieglitz gallery.
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