Norman Rockwell Painting Sells for Record Price at Auction

A masterpiece by American painter Norman Rockwell sold at auction Wednesday for $46 million - the highest price ever paid for a American artwork. "Saying Grace" shows an old woman and a young boy praying before a meal in a small restaurant while two puzzled men look on. Rockwell painted it for a cover of The Saturday Evening Post magazine in 1951. Sotheby's Auction House in New York did not name the buyer. Two other Rockwell works, "The Gossips" and...

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