GUEST: My son and I go
to auctions and estate
sales looking for junk.
It was a rainy morning,

and there were box slats out
on the grass of this auction.
And, uh, nobody wanted to

get their feet wet. We really
didn't look in the box, you
know, and, you know, the frame

looked really nice, so we ended
up getting the box for $45.
Now, the box was in the garage

drying out for a couple of days.

APPRAISER: Wow.

GUEST: And so my son got around
to it, brought the box in. This
was wrapped up with another

one in very old Saran Wrap.

APPRAISER: This is exciting.
It's a really beautiful example.
You've seen the signature,

you know the artist, Benny
Andrews. Benny Andrews
is a favorite artist of
mine, an African-American

artist who did incredible
work. He's an expressive
figurative artist working
in the 1950s until

his passing in 2006. He was
born in 1930. And what's
striking about this painting is

its beauty, its interest in
nature, the yellow dress, the
colors. He's known primarily as

a New York artist, but he was
born in Georgia. A lot of his
artwork that people know are

images of the South from
his childhood. He was
a very enterprising,
talented young artist.

He studied at the Art Institute
of Chicago in the 1950s, and
moved to New York in 1958.

And he was picked up by a
gallery and had his first solo
show in New York in 1962. Looks

like oil with tempera. It's
got a wonderful pattern. It
doesn't have his collage, which

he's really known for in the
late '60s, but it's got a lot
going for it: the size, the

early interest in color, the
pattern. And probably another
image from his childhood.

We don't see many Benny Andrews
from the early '60s, and most
of those are works on paper.

So this is a work on board,
and it's a painting. This is a
beautiful image. Of course, the

woman in the yellow dress is,
is a zinger-- it's, really
draws your eye in. Few works

like this have come to auction,
but those that have have
done well. Do you have any

sense of what it might be worth?

GUEST: Well, my
son's salivating.

APPRAISER: (chuckles)

GUEST: Online, asked about
it, so I go, "I don't
know, let's find out."

APPRAISER: I would put it
at auction, conservatively,
at $7,000 to $10,000.

GUEST: You're freakin' kidding
me. (chuckles) All right, well,
guess it's not going online.

All right, cool.

APPRAISER: It's an amazing find.

GUEST: Right.

APPRAISER: Congratulations.

GUEST: Thank you.

APPRAISER: Thank you
for bringing it in.

GUEST: I appreciate it.