THOMASTON, MAINE — Thomaston Place Auction Galleries’ Winter Enchantment auction was well-named and well-timed for its February 20-22 run.
The top lot overall came on the sale’s final day, Sunday, as Blizzard Calvin was starting to wreak havoc in New England and down the coast to Delaware, dropping three feet of snow in parts of Rhode Island and Massachusetts. Crossing the block about two hours into the session was an oil on canvas painting by Andrew George Winter (American, 1893-1958) depicting a snowy landscape view of Captain Upton’s House in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, which attained $30,000. Seriously!