Hey, check this out. I have a small original Conrad Kiesel oil on wood (German, famous for nymphs, still reprinted today) which I have been recently trying to get appraised and one of the folks I showed it to said the image was not so "commercial" because of the frown on the older ladies face as she looks disaprovingly at the younger lady whose gown has slipped. Let's set if I remember the code for the image. Here is the picture which the parser makes smaller. Hard to see the expressions. but click on the image and it is a little bigger.
My son saw the picture which I got from my father and he said "hey, Grandpa's porn!" Funny. alohapolitics.com
The big auction houses will give you an estimate of the paintings worth, their fee is 10% of the estimated worth. The big auction houses set the price level for the Art Market so their estimate is usually pretty good.
On the other hand, a dealer who specializes in Kiesel told me it was worth only around $1000 in the present market. He doesn't put the prices he asks on the web.
Thanks for the advice. alohapolitics.com
