GUEST: I inherited it from my mother, who won it in a raffle. I think she bought one ticket.
APPRAISER: For five dollars, ten dollars, something like that?
GUEST: About five dollars, I don't know, but it wasn't very much, I'm sure. As she did not really appreciate the painting, she called it "The Spilt Grape Juice."
APPRAISER: It's a lithograph by Lee Krasner. The name Lee Krasner might come to a lot of people's minds because she was the wife of Jackson Pollock.
GUEST: That's right.
APPRAISER: The female Abstract Expressionist artists really weren't as recognized. She made this lithograph out of a series of three different lithographs. There's a "Blue Stone," which you have, there's a "Gold Stone," and there's a "Pink Stone." And they were each made in an edition of 100. At auction, in this condition-- the colors are great, the sheet's intact-- I would put a conservative estimate on it of $3,000 to $5,000.
GUEST: Oh.
APPRAISER: And I would expect, in the next five to ten years, for her prices to continue to go up.
GUEST: To go up. Now is not the time to sell. Time to put it back on the wall in a place of honor.
APPRAISER: And enjoy it.
