Straddling the line between art, illustration, and extravagant Christmas gift, Norman Rockwell's "Extra Good Boys and Girls" raked in $2.17 million at a Christie's auction this week. The painting, originally a 1939 Saturday Evening Post cover, didn't hit the $2.5 million to $3.5 million estimate, but Christie's was still jolly, Reuters reports.
"This is our high-end Christmas present for this season," the head of the Christie's American art department told the New York Post. The picture features a classic red-pajama-clad Santa, seated on a ladder in front of a map of his global toy delivery route, reading a journal bearing the phrase "Extra Good Boys and Girls." (More Norman Rockwell stories.)