Sell That Shit!
A little old lady got a huge shock when she took a painting to be appraised on PBS' "Antiques Roadshow" in Palm Springs, CA. The memaw was given a 1937 painting by artist Clyfford Still as a housewarming gift by a friend almost 50 years ago. The friend was a student of Still's. Well, the painting turned out to be the best fucking housewarming gift ever, because it was appraised at $500,000!!! Memaw won the lottery! You know she did the Cabbage Patch when she found out.
The painting is the most expensive piece every appraised on the American version of the show.
Alasdair Nichol, the dude who appraised it, said it could be worth a lot more. Recently, a painting Still created 10 years later was sold at auction for $21 million. Oh hell no. I'm going to go through my mom's garage, rent a U-Haul and take everything down to the "Antiques Roadshow" to get appraised. My old ass Snoopy Sno-Cone machine has to be worth something.
The show's producer told The NY Post, "Clearly, the woman who brought this to us knew she had something special. She just didn't know how special it was."
That memaw better have called up the damn A-Team when she was told how much that shit is worth. Thieves were probably waiting to pounce on it! Damn. If I was there, I'd leave a trail of caramel squares from the venue to my car trunk. You know that memaw would fall for it! Then I'd snatch that treasure out of her hands and drive off! Well, she'd have a bunch of caramel squares and memaws love those things!
The $500,000 episode will air on PBS in January.
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Theres something really alluring about that painting for me. It reminds me of a raining day in this small town I used to live in.....very relaxing.
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I saw that one and I thought it was worth more. Like $1 mill.or some shit.
But I am also an asshole.
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Islandgirl-Yes, that was the episode. Funny, I have been watching reruns of Frasier myself. I too had forgotten how funny and well written the show was. There isn't much on today that is even in the same league.
soo.. why is this news?
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Submitted by jim on Tue, 11/18/2008 - 6:51pm.
I THINK I FOUND A DINGLEBERRY FROM LAST MONTH, HOW MUCH IS THAT WORTH???
jim, it depends on who's dingleberry it was!
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Submitted by devilgirl on Tue, 11/18/2008 - 7:24pm.
There also was a great episode of Frasier when the dad and the boys went on Antiques Roadshow.
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Isn't that the one where every time the host said "veneer", they did a shot? Hahaha, I've been watching reruns of Frasier lately and I had forgotten how intelligent the writing was.
That W&G episode is the best.
I watch ARS religiously with a friend of mine. He couldn't tell who was just elected, but he can appraise any piece they throw up there. Go figure.
looks like a Charles Addams...worth MORE! ;>
There also was a great episode of Frasier when the dad and the boys went on Antiques Roadshow.
Will & Grace was a hit-or-miss show (it's first 3 seasons, after that, miss-miss-miss), BUT, this episode was one of the funniest:
Season 2, Episode 10: Tea and a Total Lack of Sympathy
Original Air Date—11 January 2000
When they appear on their favorite TV show, Antiques on the Road, Grace can't wait to dress down the guests who are ever hopeful that their tchotchkes are worth a fortune, while Jack just wants to undress the show's attractive appraiser, Porcelain Paul. But then it's all business when they realize that their junky, thrift-store teapot is actually valued at $30,000.
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My grandma used to love the sugar daddy pops, they'd get stuck in her teeth and take out her dentures tho. She was a gross and old smelly woman, didn't like her much but she was a math genius! Your trail of caramel squares reminded me of my memaw grandma...she's dead now. $500,000!!!! Memaw probably almost had a stroke when she heard that shit. We should formulate some sort of plan to steal her precious painting! Keep it on the DL tho! (please)
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LOVE that show.
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Kind of looks like a Van Gogh knock off. But hey I didn't major in Art History so there ya go.
I LOVE Aniques Roadshow! My favorite episode is where a guy who had an antique Navajo weaved blanket for a Ute Chief. It's worth like $350,000! *searching my attic for some antique crap*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlkYn39i4Fw
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that's way too expensive
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There was a portrait by Still done in realist style, of Mark Rothko that sold in May of 2000 for 1.5 million. But it was a portrait of Rothko, so that's historic in nature... what the hell is so different about this one? There was another realist painting by Still that went for only 25K in 2001. Same period. Similar economy.
I'm going to go through my mom's garage, rent a U-Haul and take everything down to the "Antiques Roadshow" to get appraised. My old ass Snoopy Sno-Cone machine has to be worth something.
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Ha! My friend was addicted to the Road Show YEARS ago. And she used to do this ALL the time. Constantly finding shit and filling her house with it because one day she was gonna take them to the Road Show! Once I broke something (eep! hell.to.pay.) But I don't think she ever went, anyway.
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MK I got my snoopy snow cone maker for fifty cents at a yard sale, you can have it for five bucks.
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I love me some Antiques Roadshow and, NO, I'm not a nerd!!!
I think $500,000 is about right for that painting in the current market. But, if she's smart, she will leave it to her grandchildren (it's good to skip a generation for tax purposes) so they can wait for the art market to go up. The grands might get closer to the $21 million mark.
I LOVE the Antiques Road Show!!!!
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When you can't lie to yourself, that's depressing.
She better take the money and run, well walk as fast as she can w.her walker, she'll die before the value goes up at least she can buy tchotckis(sp?) with the money she got and maybe move out of her trailer.
that old lady will 4 sure die before she is even spends a penny.
I wonder how much I can get get from my 2007 Hess truck set.
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I don't wanna live my life aga-uh-in...
good show, the appraisers seem pretty accurate
I THINK I FOUND A DINGLEBERRY FROM LAST MONTH, HOW MUCH IS THAT WORTH???
Well, I remember a quilt that was appraised for that much, too.
I love the closing credits when they have random people saying "I brought this vase which I thought was Lalique, but it's only worth $5.00. But we had fun anyway." Cracks me the hell up.
I got a suitcase full of old leggo's I wonder what I could get for that if I told em Salvidor Dali once owned it.
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"That picture was painted before Clyfford Still gave up and became an abstract expressionist"
Yes, he was in the same WPA social realism vein as Jackson Pollock was before he became an abstract painter. His pre abstract work doesn't go for very much either. That's why I question a half million in this market for a pre- abstraction Still.
Anyone who would pay $500,000 for a PAINTING is a ufcking idiot. Most folks don't earn that working their ass off for a decade.
Submitted by Hysteria on Tue, 11/18/2008 - 6:41pm.
I like watching Road Show. Don't really know why.
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it's calming. no gunfire, screams, violence or sex.
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I like watching Road Show. Don't really know why.
Also like that Van Gogh-ish painting. I sometimes question if their market estimates are alittle high.
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That picture was painted before Clyfford Still gave up and became an abstract expressionist.
Submitted by MJF on Tue, 11/18/2008 - 6:33pm.
You KNOW that's memaw's "O" face.
HAHAHAHAHA. (Gross. I'm going back to the anal sacs thread.)
"My old ass Snoopy Sno-Cone machine has to be worth something"
HAHAHA
You KNOW that's memaw's "O" face.
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Still? The abstract expressionist? A work by him in this early period of his career for a half a million?! In this crappy ass economy? I'd like to see it making half that today. I'd still take it though, with no regrets....
I like British version better ... more snarky.
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Submitted by LOVE ANDERSON on Tue, 11/18/2008 - 6:18pm.
No. Way.
I haven't watched this shit in years, I love it when people bring shit they cleaned and shouldn't have.
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I once bought some jade-ite vases off ebay (don't ask) and they were filthy. I emailed the seller and they said they didn't want to clean them as it might reduce the value. (eyeroll)
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The Geek in me just loves that fucking show. Although i have zero talent in spotting shit thats worth anything. Friend of mine buys stuff for a quarter at Goodwill and sells it for 150 bucks on ebay... Just knows what to pick.... Lucky Grandma!!
HAHA the cabbage patch hahaha. I can just see it.
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MK, I'd be willing to buy that Snoopy Sno Cone Machine off of you. I loves me some Peanuts!
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1. I fucking love that show cause you unintentionally learn shizz and the appraisers are a wide assortment of awesome.
2. I will buy your Snooopy Sno Cone maker MK for at least 20 bucks just cause your hotness touched the machine.
3. I love pBS and yes I'm a nerd.
I love this show! Everytime I watch it I get the urge to clean out the attic, but I'm a lazy bitch, so I never do.
No. Way.
I haven't watched this shit in years, I love it when people bring shit they cleaned and shouldn't have.
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Wow, lucky little old lady!