NEW YORK CITY —Sotheby’s November 21 sale of American art at totaled $28.6 million, led by Norman Rockwell’s “Which One?,” a painting that appeared on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post prior to the 1944 presidential election between Democratic incumbent President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Republican challenger Thomas Dewey. Making its auction debut, the striking depiction of a Cedar Rapids resident contemplating his nominees was pursued by three telephone bidders before selling for $6.5 million.

An artist record at auction was posted by Rockwell Kent’s “Gray Day,” signed and dated 1935-7, oil on canvas, which brought $852,500.

A complete report on the auction will appear in a future edition.