Edouard Leon Cortes Painting: $40,600
This discovery was more of a group effort by Goodwill employees in Easton, Maryland when they were filing through donations in 2008. They uncovered a painting of a street scene done in an Impressionist style and it looked like an original oil painting, not print. So when the manager Terri Tonelli came back from vacation, the employees told her they might have found something of value.
“It could have very easily ended up put in a pile, marked for $20,” Goodwill’s regional marketing director said to the Associated Press. Well, it ended up going for $40,600.
