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Believe me I have been around the block with art. Its a real Oil on Canvas. As I have said before there is more money left lying around in art than anything else. Someone doesn't like the painting, or it looks cheesy, can't read the signature, its dirty or even unsigned, and it can be worth real bank.

A friend of mines daughter had a painting of a Pineapple on a table dated 1888, by Guy Rose. she hated it, kept it under the bed. Called up Morans and had them come out to look at some furniture and a coupla paintings she wanted to get rid of. Moran comes out and is looking at the painting and is wondering out loud who "C Rosa" is when she tells him her Great Uncle was Guy Rose. His eyes got real BIG. I saw that painting sell ffor $170,000.00 at Morans. The man standing in back of me bought it. If I had known a few months earlier I coulda bought that painting for a coupla grand from her.

Another small 8 x 10 painting by Granville Redmond that was so dirty that you could hardly tell what the scene was, was bought at a Yard sale in San Gaberial for $10. The guy who bought it didn't even know what he had till he got home and checked the signature. Jeff Moran showed me the painting before it was cleaned. It sold for $8900 at auction. It was a scene of Catalina Island.

I saw a American Impressionist painting that I didn't think much of at Abels Auctions a few years back. A week later I found out that Pete Sampras dad and another dealer that I knew got into a bidding war over it. It went for 23K. The dealer took it to a Art Gallery in Beverly Hills and sold it for 60K the next day. The dealer framed and cleaned it and put it up for sale at 150K.