Pawn Stars: Chum Catches a Fake with Art Expertise (Season 13) | History

how you doing good what do you have here it's an aqua tape itching by Murrow John Merrow okay it looks really cool definitely I really like you Morelle he's one of my favorite artists it's simple the yet your subconscious still thinks what could this be you know this could be a kite this could be a row this could be anything you know like it really gets you thinking what could this be $10,000 do you know a date on it or anything like that no idea I don't know the title the date no I know it's it's titled 49 out of 50 so I assume it's an edition of 15 there's definitely a big market for morels work in 2012 Sotheby's set a record by selling his masterpiece at while blue for 37 million dollars if this piece is real it won't fetch millions but it could be worth thousands so how much do you want to get for it 12,000 close of thinking there was an art gallery downtown about 10 years ago that had similar etchings by Moreau okay they were selling anywhere between 40 and 70 thousand dollars you know what I can see this going for 12,000 that's not out of the ballpark for a Moreau piece the thing is even though his our work is worth a lot of money he's one of the most faked artists around for this period of time like his signature is faked a lot and I'm not a signature expert but signature looks a little iffy to me it kind of looks like stop and go stop and go Moreau had a real fluid signature I would just like someone to come down and take a look at it I got a our expert Brett he's dealt with murrow's for a long time so give me a few minutes and I'm gonna go call him absolutely sure I'm a little nervous to hear what the expert has to say because I don't have a good baseline to know what it's worth and I am also unsure if it's authentic all right let's see sad I don't know if we've called you down for one of these before I don't think so mural mural on the floor very very nice Jean Moreau is really one of the 20th century masters he's right up there with Picasso and Matisse he was a master of all media from engravings to aqua tens to stone lithography he could do it all I am familiar with this image I've actually seen this the title is called demi-monde Dayne at her window you can see that this is a figure you can see the eye you can see the appendages here and it's it's probably a woman of the night wearing an ornate gown with you know beautiful flowing colors and standing in front of a window and it's a window view of the the night sky you've got the Stars the moon or maybe these are city lights I mean this is really indicative of his late period work okay now did you have some specific questions Sean I don't know if it's grill and also the signature is not quite as flowy as I would normally see from a Murrow signature is it okay if we put this up on the table you're the boss okay great all right let me take a closer look here yeah I think what we have here is a it's a mixed media print I do see plate marks which would be indicative of an engraving where they actually press the copper plate into the paper you can see it kind of you know the trace of it there it's on the right type of paper so this does appear to be an original Murrow graphic Oh excellent great okay now this is where I run into some issues I have seen this work and every single one that I've seen the signature usually appears higher up within the composition below the green and the number typically appears below this orange sphere the signature I'm a little worried about there's a lack of fluidity here I mean there's a lot of breaks in the arches of the M I think what this might be it was an original graphic that somebody else signed and numbered it which is a shame because even an original graphic that's unsigned an unnumbered it's gonna be worth many thousands of dollars it's kind of like autographing a Mickey Mantle card yourself you know it loses a lot of the value again I can't say with a hundred percent authenticity but based on my experience with this particular work and Moreau I I just see too many red flags advise Chum to purchase it mm-hmm sorry all right nice meeting you that's it all right Thank You Chuck all right have a good one guys I'm afraid I had to advise Chum to pass on the work even though I think the graphic itself is genuine there's just too many question marks about the signature and the addition for me to advise him to purchase it so even though he thinks it's a real Murrow graphic I'm gonna have to pass that's gonna be hard for me to sell it still it seems kind of fictitious I understand thanks for bringing thank you it's very disappointing to hear that it's an authentic Murrow but someone forged tomorrow's signature now I'll probably end up hanging up the Murrow wherever we end up staying and enjoying it as much as I can you

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Length: 5min 15sec (315 seconds)

Published: Mon Sep 30 2019