Art experts... is my $12 Goodwill purchase authentic?
 

Bought a Paul Klee work recently from Goodwill... frame is old. Paper is old. I found a photo of a similar piece, but not this particular one. I haven't taken it out of the frame yet. There's a sticker on the back that says, "Premiere Art Galleries, Springfield." Best I can tell there is no such business currently operating.

What do you think? $100K? $200K?

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That's cool- could be the catch of the day- Anything he did would be old since he's been dead over 70 years- there are several books out there about him so I'd swing by the nearest Barnes & Noble or the most exclusive gallery in your hometown.

Let us know how that works out.

I'll give ya $15 for it.

My first thought is that it is most likely a print...second a litho of some sort.

Looks like a print to me too but I'm no art expert

I'm no art expert, so... is that some sort of hoity-toity abstract of Barney the dinosaur?

A litho(graph) is a print.

I feel a pain in the azz...note not up the azz...

Looks like a poster to me ($10-$20). If it were genuine (signed/numbered) litho, it could be worth anywhere from $5k to $50k+.
If it were an original, we are talking big money. We just had 3 Klee (pronounced more like "klay" BTW) originals go thru our auction house (I'm on the RE side) this month alone. They sold for $1.34MM USD, $1.75MM USD, and $1.67MM respectively. We had two Klee lithos thru this past October They sold for $28k USD and $17.5k respectively.

What auction house are we refering to? I have probably done biz wid dem...

I'll give you my 993 for it.

If it turns out to be the Big Find will you help Goodwill profit from the find?

They already did profit - $12.

Dang, you beat me to the punch. I was going to offer a well sorted 944... ;)

I'll trade you my one-of-a-kind Porsche factory racing prototype 1972 targa for it. I have it on ebay right now, but I'll cancel my listing if you want.

Porsche : 911 - eBay (item 230590115840 end time Mar-06-11 18:00:00 PST)

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Mr Ivy League must be hard up...."the battery is not included with the car"

Lee - you are in phoenix - so get in touch with the Scottsdale Art Auction/Legacy Gallery/Brad Richardson - he can help you - he is an honest dealer - and although he doesn't deal with a lot of cubism/expressionism if he doesn't know - he is part of a large network, and can at least get you in touch with someone who would know how to authenticate your piece.

It does look a bit like Klee's later work - when he used lots of bright colors, heavy lines and geometric shapes - it looks a little too 'representational' for his later work, his work was fairly abstract by then, but, he was a pretty quirky and a prolific artist (over 1,000 pieces in 1939 for instance). It also doesn't look like a typical early Klee signature- however, his signature varied a lot throughout his life, and is somewhat similar to this in the 20s - 30s - when he was doing work a bit more similar to your piece - his early work had a more 'blocky' signature.

However - find out from an expert -
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It would be pretty exciting if that thing turned out to be worth big wonga. Here's hoping it is.

That's art? Well, f&@# me!