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

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

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

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

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drying out for a couple of days.

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APPRAISER: Wow.

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

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one in very old Saran Wrap.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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sense of what it might be worth?

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GUEST: Well, my 
son's salivating.

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APPRAISER: (chuckles)

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

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

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

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All right, cool.

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APPRAISER: It's an amazing find.

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GUEST: Right.

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APPRAISER: Congratulations.

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GUEST: Thank you.

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APPRAISER: Thank you 
for bringing it in.

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GUEST: I appreciate it.