Frank Weston Benson Painting: $165,002
A donor dropped off a watercolor at a Goodwill store in 2006 over in Portland Oregon. But of course, it wasn’t a regular watercolor and employees senses that too because it was so eye-catching. Goodwill put it up for auction for a mere ten dollars but the offers started to shoot up when it was determined that it was the work of Frank Weston Benson.
“Frank Benson is a top-tier impressionist,” Mattew W. Gerber a local gallery owner said to The Oregonian. “When they put this up, they didn’t have a clue what it was.”
