
Appraisal: Patrociño Barela Carving, ca. 1950
Clip: Season 29 Episode 1 | 2m 24sVideo has Closed Captions
Appraisal: Patrociño Barela Carving, ca. 1950
See Ken Farmer appraise a Patrociño Barela carving, ca. 1950, in Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Hour 1.
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Appraisal: Patrociño Barela Carving, ca. 1950
Clip: Season 29 Episode 1 | 2m 24sVideo has Closed Captions
See Ken Farmer appraise a Patrociño Barela carving, ca. 1950, in Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Hour 1.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipGUEST: This is a, uh, signed, uh, wood carving by Pat Barela, who was an artisan out of Taos, New Mexico.
My stepmother worked for a few summers in Taos at an art gallery in the mid-1950s.
And so she knew of him, she knew of his work, and, uh, she wanted a piece.
She bought it from him.
She couldn't remember what she paid for it.
Less than ten dollars.
But she could remember a couple packs of cigarettes also went with it.
APPRAISER: His nickname was Pat, and he carved all of his sculptures out of local wood.
And if you pick this up, you can kind of feel the weight of it.
It's not, like, terribly heavy, so I think it's probably cottonwood.
He was born around 1900 and died in 1964, and he was a self-taught artist.
From 1936 to 1943, he worked under the umbrella of the WPA, and that was something that started during the Depression by the Roosevelt administration.
And in 1936, they exhibited his work at the Museum of Modern Art.
GUEST: Right.
APPRAISER: Which was a really big deal.
And "Time" magazine named him the discovery of the year.
It has a lot of imagery.
I think the, the hands are folded in reverence on this side, and there's some other faces in there.
Those faces remind me almost of Easter Island carvings.
GUEST: Yep, they sure do can.
APPRAISER: Those are religious carvings.
They're spiritual figures.
GUEST: Mm-hmm.
APPRAISER: The good thing about this is, of course, you have this fabulous history, so there's no question about where it came from and who did it.
We really don't know the title of this, but we're lucky that he signed it on the bottom, uh, and that's easy to show.
It's P-A-T, and then part of the-- the letters in his last name.
When I was doing the price research on this, I found several figures about the same height.
Pieces like this were bringing $6,000, $8,000, easily...
GUEST: Mm-hmm.
APPRAISER: Depending on the subject matter.
And in my opinion, this one is probably in the $8,000 to $9,000 range for retail.
GUEST: It's a happy number.
APPRAISER: Well, thank you for bringing it in today.
GUEST: Oh, awesome.
I'm thrilled to be here.
Appraisal: 1680 Moses Pitt North Pole Map
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Clip: S29 Ep1 | 4m 8s | Appraisal: 1680 Moses Pitt North Pole Map (4m 8s)
Appraisal: 1878 Napa Valley Wineries Silver-plate Presentation Tray
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Clip: S29 Ep1 | 2m 49s | Appraisal: 1878 Napa Valley Wineries Silver-plate Presentation Tray (2m 49s)
Appraisal: 1926 Rogers Hornsby Sterling Trophy
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Clip: S29 Ep1 | 1m 52s | Appraisal: 1926 Rogers Hornsby Sterling Trophy (1m 52s)
Appraisal: 1947 Max Ernst 'Dangerous Liaisons' Etching
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Clip: S29 Ep1 | 2m 32s | Appraisal: 1947 Max Ernst 'Dangerous Liaisons' Etching (2m 32s)
Appraisal: 1951 & 1925 Signed Baseballs
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Clip: S29 Ep1 | 1m 5s | Appraisal: 1951 & 1925 Signed Baseballs (1m 5s)
Appraisal: 1963 JFK Hospital News Broadcast Script
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Clip: S29 Ep1 | 2m 24s | Appraisal: 1963 JFK Hospital News Broadcast Script (2m 24s)
Appraisal: 1965 Bjorn Wiinblad 'Autumn' Figure
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Clip: S29 Ep1 | 1m 50s | Appraisal: 1965 Bjorn Wiinblad 'Autumn' Figure (1m 50s)
Appraisal: 1976 Marvel UK 'Super Spider-Man' #175 Cover Art
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Clip: S29 Ep1 | 2m 34s | Appraisal: 1976 Marvel UK 'Super Spider-Man' #175 Cover Art (2m 34s)
Appraisal: Chinese Manchu Semi Formal Silk Surcoat, ca. 1880
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Preview: S29 Ep1 | 4m 14s | Appraisal: Chinese Manchu Semi Formal Silk Surcoat, ca. 1880 (4m 14s)
Appraisal: Clarence Millet Oil Paintings, ca. 1945
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Clip: S29 Ep1 | 3m 10s | Appraisal: Clarence Millet Oil Paintings, ca. 1945 (3m 10s)
Appraisal: French Figural Clock, ca. 1850
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Clip: S29 Ep1 | 3m 4s | Appraisal: French Figural Clock, ca. 1850 (3m 4s)
Appraisal: Magnolia Petroleum Co. Porcelain Sign, ca. 1930
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Clip: S29 Ep1 | 2m 16s | Appraisal: Magnolia Petroleum Co. Porcelain Sign, ca. 1930 (2m 16s)
Appraisal: Marcus & Co. Boulder Opal Gold Ring, ca. 1900
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Clip: S29 Ep1 | 2m 51s | Appraisal: Marcus & Co. Boulder Opal Gold Ring, ca. 1900 (2m 51s)
Appraisal: Winslow Homer Watercolors, ca. 1878
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Clip: S29 Ep1 | 3m 43s | Appraisal: Winslow Homer Watercolors, ca. 1878 (3m 43s)
Appraisal: Zao Wou-Ki Lithograph, ca. 1960
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Clip: S29 Ep1 | 1m 3s | Appraisal: Zao Wou-Ki Lithograph, ca. 1960 (1m 3s)
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