Records were broken in New York sales of American art this week. An iconic Norman Rockwell fetched the highest price ever paid for a work offered at an American art auction while a museum's deaccessioned Edward Hopper brought an artist auction record.

Rockwell's "Saying Grace" fetched the record price of $46 million at Sotheby's on Dec. 4. The work was one of seven Rockwells sold from the collection of Kenneth J. Stuart Jr., a longtime friend of the artist's and the art editor of The Saturday Evening Post. The entire collection brought $59.7 million.

The selling price nearly tripled Rockwell's previous auction record of $15.4 million, brought by in 2006, according to Sotheby's.

Sotheby's sale brought a total $83.9 million, far above its high estimate of $62.1 million.

The previous record for American art at auction was set in 1999 by George Bellows’ painting “Polo Crowd” sold at Sotheby’s for $27.7 million

At Christie's on Dec. 5, an Edward Hopper de-accessioned from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts soared to an artist auction record of $40.5 million in a sale that reached a total $76.8 million. "East Wind Over Weehawken" depicts a desolate Depression-era street scene. Hopper considered it one of his best works.