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Painting left at Goodwill auctions for $40,000
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/913fefe2-6bfa-457f-8afb-be2592678775/3564959A-DFDF-49EC-B4C0-FAA8948ED748/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080625/ap_on_fe_st/odd_goodwill_painting" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080625/ap_on_fe_st/odd_goodwill_painting" style="font-size: 11px;">news.yahoo.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080625/ap_on_fe_st/odd_goodwill_painting"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/news.yahoo.com/img/F7E58497-241A-471A-8886-8DFBE97C0E70" alt="This is a painting, supplied by Sotheby's auction house, by Edouard Leon Cortes entitled 'Marche aux fleurs' or 'Flower Market,' sold for $40,600 at a Sotheby's auction a few weeks ago. The old painting was dropped off at a rural Maryland Goodwill store and turned out to be a work by the French Impressionist. And now, thanks to the sharp eye of a store employee, the charitable organization is $40,600 richer.(AP Photo/Sotheby's)" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080625/ap_on_fe_st/odd_goodwill_painting">An old painting dropped off at a rural <SPAN id="lw_1214421364_0" class="yshortcuts">Maryland Goodwill store</SPAN> turned out to be a work by a <SPAN id="lw_1214421364_1" class="yshortcuts">French Impressionist</SPAN>. And now, thanks to the sharp eye of a store employee, the <SPAN id="lw_1214421364_2" class="yshortcuts">charitable organization</SPAN> is $40,000 richer. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080625/ap_on_fe_st/odd_goodwill_painting"><P>The Parisian street scene, left at the store in March along with daily donations of pots, pans, old clock radios and other items, turned out to be a work by Edouard-Leon Cortes, probably from the <SPAN id="lw_1214421364_3" class="yshortcuts">early 20th century</SPAN>.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080625/ap_on_fe_st/odd_goodwill_painting"><P>The painting — called "Marche aux fleurs" or "Flower Market" — was sold for $40,600 at a <SPAN id="lw_1214421364_4" class="yshortcuts">Sotheby's auction</SPAN> a few weeks ago.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080625/ap_on_fe_st/odd_goodwill_painting">"It could have very easily ended up put in a pile, marked for $20,"</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080625/ap_on_fe_st/odd_goodwill_painting"><P>Store manager Terri Tonelli said employees asked her to look at the donated painting because they suspected it was valuable. 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