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In 2012 the New York Botanical Garden struck gold with the success of its exhibition “Monet’s Garden,” which shattered attendance records as it brought some 373,000 visitors to Bronx.

Then this year’s Frida Kahlo show happened. Before it closes on Nov. 1, “Frida Kahlo: Art, Garden, Life” is expected to pass the 500,000-visitors mark and set a record. Gregory Long, the garden’s president and chief executive, was surprised. “We thought Frida Kahlo would be a wonderful thing,” he said, “but we never thought it would outdo Monet.”

On May 21, as the star lot of its sale of American Art, Christie’s will offer "Two Puritans" by Edward Hopper (1882-1967). Painted in 1945 at the height of Hopper’s career, "Two Puritans," one of only three canvases by the artist of that year and the only one in private hands, is estimated to bring in excess of $20 million when it appears at auction for the first time this spring. The painting has been included in nearly every major exhibition and publication on the artist and, most recently was on view in Paris at the Grand Palais, where the Hopper exhibition broke attendance records, proving that the artist has arrived on an international stage.

Elizabeth Beaman, Head of American Art, states; “Edward Hopper's masterwork 'Two Puritans' can be considered at once an intimate and revealing portrait of the artist and his wife, as well as a testament to his dogged dedication to realism in the face of a changing visual world that increasingly championed abstraction.