how you doing good what do you have here
it's an aqua tape itching by Murrow John
Merrow okay it looks really cool
definitely I really like you Morelle
he's one of my favorite artists it's
simple the yet your subconscious still
thinks what could this be you know this
could be a kite this could be a row this
could be anything you know like it
really gets you thinking what could this
be
$10,000 do you know a date on it or
anything like that no idea I don't know
the title the date no I know it's it's
titled 49 out of 50 so I assume it's an
edition of 15 there's definitely a big
market for morels work in 2012 Sotheby's
set a record by selling his masterpiece
at while blue for 37 million dollars if
this piece is real it won't fetch
millions but it could be worth thousands
so how much do you want to get for it
12,000 close of thinking there was an
art gallery downtown about 10 years ago
that had similar etchings by Moreau okay
they were selling anywhere between 40
and 70 thousand dollars you know what I
can see this going for 12,000 that's not
out of the ballpark for a Moreau piece
the thing is even though his our work is
worth a lot of money he's one of the
most faked artists around for this
period of time like his signature is
faked a lot and I'm not a signature
expert but signature looks a little iffy
to me it kind of looks like stop and go
stop and go Moreau had a real fluid
signature I would just like someone to
come down and take a look at it I got a
our expert Brett he's dealt with
murrow's for a long time so give me a
few minutes and I'm gonna go call him
absolutely sure I'm a little nervous to
hear what the expert has to say because
I don't have a good baseline to know
what it's worth and I am also unsure if
it's
authentic all right let's see sad I
don't know if we've called you down for
one of these before I don't think so
mural mural on the floor very very nice
Jean Moreau is really one of the 20th
century masters he's right up there with
Picasso and Matisse he was a master of
all media from engravings to aqua tens
to stone lithography he could do it all
I am familiar with this image I've
actually seen this the title is called
demi-monde Dayne at her window you can
see that this is a figure you can see
the eye you can see the appendages here
and it's it's probably a woman of the
night wearing an ornate gown with you
know beautiful flowing colors and
standing in front of a window and it's a
window view of the the night sky you've
got the Stars the moon or maybe these
are city lights I mean this is really
indicative of his late period work okay
now did you have some specific questions
Sean I don't know if it's grill and also
the signature is not quite as flowy as I
would normally see from a Murrow
signature is it okay if we put this up
on the table you're the boss okay great
all right let me take a closer look here
yeah I think what we have here is a it's
a mixed media print I do see plate marks
which would be indicative of an
engraving where they actually press the
copper plate into the paper you can see
it kind of you know the trace of it
there it's on the right type of paper so
this does appear to be an original
Murrow graphic Oh excellent great okay
now this is where I run into some issues
I have seen this work and every single
one that I've seen the signature usually
appears higher up within the composition
below the green and the number typically
appears below this orange sphere the
signature I'm a little worried about
there's a lack of fluidity here I mean
there's a lot of breaks in the arches of
the M I think what this might be
it was an original graphic that somebody
else signed and numbered it which is a
shame because even an original graphic
that's unsigned an unnumbered it's gonna
be worth many thousands of dollars it's
kind of like autographing a Mickey
Mantle card yourself you know it loses a
lot of the value again I can't say with
a hundred percent authenticity but based
on my experience with this particular
work and Moreau I I just see too many
red flags advise Chum to purchase it
mm-hmm
sorry all right nice meeting you that's
it all right Thank You Chuck all right
have a good one guys I'm afraid I had to
advise Chum to pass on the work even
though I think the graphic itself is
genuine there's just too many question
marks about the signature and the
addition for me to advise him to
purchase it so even though he thinks
it's a real Murrow graphic I'm gonna
have to pass
that's gonna be hard for me to sell it
still it seems kind of fictitious I
understand thanks for bringing thank you
it's very disappointing to hear that
it's an authentic Murrow but someone
forged tomorrow's signature now I'll
probably end up hanging up the Murrow
wherever we end up staying and enjoying
it as much as I can
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