BOSTON — On November 2-3 Grogan & Company conducted two auctions: Fine Art and Fine Jewelry. With exceptional above-estimate results on both days, it was a Paul Starrett Sample painting that claimed the top price overall. Titled “The Horse Show, South Woodstock, Vermont,” the circa 1949 oil on canvas was signed “Paul Sample” to the lower right and was housed in a 39½-by-52½-inch frame. The painting had provenance to a Greenwich, Conn., estate and was previously exhibited at the Fort Wayne Museum of Art (Fort Wayne, Ind.), Woodstock Gallery of Art (Woodstock, Vt.) and Associated American Arts (New York City). The rolling Vermont landscape with the horse show scene exemplifies Sample’s New England regionalism; as such, it was bid beyond its $50/70,000 estimate to achieve $118,750 with buyer’s premium. Further review of the auctions will be in a forthcoming issue.