His paintings sell for between $50-$100.
I don’t know how much a sculpture would be worth, but that’s the value of the lithograph “Arabs”.
Could be worth quite a bit.
I use google lens for items and most times pretty accurate.
Looks like a lithographic stone to me (although I am not an expert on prints). Looks like an American realist style (along the lines of Grant Wood. Thomas Hart Benton, and others). I would have dated it closer to the 1930s than 1948 but close enough.
I really like the abstraction; it grows on me the more I look at it.
I don’t think it’s super valuable. I think it could be used to make more prints if inked correctly.
It looks like a lithograph stone for this piece:
https://www.artic.edu/artworks/181363/arabs
carved on soap stone.... hidden under the floor boards... New England... this is basically the beginning of an HP Lovecraft story.
That’s a slab of lithographic limestone, with the image still on it. Normally, once the edition was complete, the image would be effaced from the stone, and used for other images. The same slab can (or rather could) be used over and over.
The limestone used in stone lithography comes from a quarry that is played out now. There is no more, no similar deposits have never been found, and the slabs in existence have become very thin indeed. Most lithographs today are printed from treated zinc plates.
This is not to be confused with offset lithography, which is a high-speed printing process involving the dots you referenced.
The object could be worth something. It might be worth something just for the limestone itself, which an artist could print from for decades after the effacing the image.
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https://www.invaluable.com/artist/kaplan-jerome-mjxhapdsrt/sold-at-auction-prices/
LOL
Back in my youth, I worked in a couple of art galleries that specialized in original prints (which are etchings, engraving, silkscreens, lithographs, and monotypes). We used pieces like this, though much smaller, to explain the printmaking process to customers. If you can find a gallery that features mid-20th-century American printmakers, they would probably love to have this.
Since you are not laundering large amounts of money (the only reason art is valuable other than aesthetics)
it is probably not worth much except to maybe a certain collector.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/29/business/art-money-laundering-sanctions-senate/index.html
Is that a lithograph of a couple of Democrats standing around trying to figure out their pronouns?
That looks like a lithographers stone. It would be coated with water that soaks into the stone and rolls of the artwork. Then with ink that will not stick to the wet parts (only sticks to the art likely some sort of grease based). Next paper is pressed onto the stone and the ink prints to the paper. This works just like a litho plate on a more modern litho printing press (already becoming obsolete). Lithography, from the Greek for “stone printing. Definition: the process of printing from a flat surface treated so as to repel the ink except where it is required for printing.
WOW this is very interesting. I paint and do other art.