Young Girl with Flowers by Pierre Renoir, $78,000, Thomaston Place

An impressionist oil on canvas waterside painting of a young girl with flowers by Pierre Renoir sold for $78,000 at a Majestic auction held Nov. 10-12 by Thomaston Place Auction Galleries in Thomaston, ME. Also, John Frederick Kensett’s painting depicting Mount Monadnock (NH) went for $38,400; and a silver mounted ancient Egyptian pink granite toenail fragment, purportedly from a colossal statue of Ramses II, who reigned circa 1279-1213 BC, changed hands for $38,750.