Expert: James Few, PSA - 5/6/2009

Question
I have a signed Huldah painting. It is a woman with a parasol with a small girl. They are walking around a lake with two children in sailor suits playing with a sail boat in the lake. The two main characters have large eyes. Can you appraise this piece?

Answer
Sorry John,but art ID and appraisal is not my thing. I usually answer questions about the use of the soft pastel medium only.

However you might try these guides:

Artist Research Library
www.artincontext.org      

Find Thousands of Artists by Name, Discipline, Period, Term & More.  

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/
http://www.askart.com/AskART/help/what_is_my_art_worth.aspx

For identification help, you might contact the American National Gallery research library or look in their online inventory for the artist's name.. http://www.nga.gov/resources/dldesc.shtm  

If price is your concern, I recommend that you contact an appraisal service in your area. You may also wish to use the services of an online appraisal service such as   www.eppraisals.com, or http://www.artomania.com/ . However I cannot vouch for their veracity.

Price always depends on supply and demand regardless of what you are selling. It is worth exactly what you can get a buyer to pay for it. Cost is not the same as price.

And

Free information and advice is worth exactly what it costs ---- nothing!

It could also be a reproduction, copy or fake....  Gallery copies made by (honest) student artists who go into museums and copy master works for practice are usually marked "after- so and so," and in some cases certified as such by the museum staff -- usually on the back.  Incidentally that is the best way to get into another artist's head....

Jim