The work, painted in about 1560, had not been seen on the market in some 30 years. It went to a private European collector bidding by phone, selling within the $15-20 million pre-sale estimate.

The firefighter, 24-year-old Tre Evans-Dumaran, was responding to flooded homes on Oluea Street in Kihei when he was caught in a 4-foot-wide storm drain and carried by storm waters about 800 yards ...