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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.