GUEST: Well, in 1962 I lived with Chuck Close, and at the end of the summer when he was downsizing, came into possession of this piece, and with very few exceptions, it's been hanging on a wall of mine ever since.
APPRAISER: Wonderful, so it came right from the artist to you, that's a wonderful provenance for a piece.
GUEST: Yes.
APPRAISER: The piece is dated 1961, so very early in Chuck Close's career. He was born in 1940, so probably only 20 or 21 at the time.
GUEST: Yes.
APPRAISER: And of course, this is not necessarily what you think of when you think of a Chuck Close. You think of these large-scale portrait heads, photorealism, very far from this abstract expressionist-inspired work. So it's a particularly interesting and rare example. This is an oil on canvas. He called it "The Turkey Painting"?
GUEST: Yes.
APPRAISER: I see there's a little bit of... of damage here, puncture holes, but they're small and they're not in the main section of the canvas. At auction, I would put a value of $50,000 to $80,000 on this painting. It could conceivably go for even more.
GUEST: That's... I don't have any plans to sell it. That is nice.
