PITTSFIELD, MASS. — “March Floods,” an impressionistic forest landscape with remnants of melting snow, topped John Fontaine’s April 21 fine arts sale, as it finished at $34,943. A Norman Rockwell pencil sketch, “Christmas: Santa Claus Reading Mail,” brought $18,150. The sketch, used in a December 1935 issue of The Saturday Evening Post had been a gift from Rockwell and was sold with a Christmas card signed by Norman and Molly Rockwell.

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