Maybe he just couldn’t stomach it any more.

An angst-ridden artist who staged a 19-day hunger strike against The New Yorker put down his protest placard and picked up a fork after the high-brow mag issued a statement to him Friday night.

John Perry, of Yorkville, told The Post that the response was “all that he wanted.”

Perry swore off sustenance to protest the magazine’s August 2010 exposé of his rift with downtown- film icon John Lurie.

Perry said the story made him look like a lunatic. The magazine took back none of it — but the editors’ statement said Perry lacked “a history of persecutory behavior,” which was enough to get him eating again.