GUEST: I brought this piece of art.

I don't really know much about it.

About a year ago in our office, uh, they were demoing out all of our cubes.

Uh, this was hanging on the cube wall in our office.

Uh, they ended up putting it in the dumpster.

And then, uh, at that time, I had a new office with, like, nothing on the walls.

So I decided to grab it out of the dumpster and hang it on the wall 'cause I liked the, the color of it.

And then about, you know, a year later, here we are today.

APPRAISER: This is a Victor Vasarely three-dimensional limited-edition bas-relief sculpture.

GUEST: All right.

APPRAISER: Uh, the piece is from, uh, 1972.

GUEST: 1972.

APPRAISER: He was a painter and printmaker.

Uh, less this kind of three-dimensional stuff, but he, he did some of these kinds of things.

Op art was his specialty.

It's basically made of a plastic on a metal base.

And the frame is part of the whole piece.

It's not like it was then framed.

GUEST: Okay.

APPRAISER: It has an odd title.

It is "CTA-102 Pos.

Gold."

It's in a very small edition.

It's an edition of four.

He's in major museums.

He also was sold in commercial galleries and malls in the '70s and '80s.

GUEST: Okay.

APPRAISER: So he was very popular for many years.

It's a signed piece.

He did paintings.

GUEST: Right.

APPRAISER: He did a lot of silk screens and lithographs.

GUEST: Yeah.

APPRAISER: The prints are mostly in the $400-$500 range into the real low thousands.

GUEST: Yeah.

APPRAISER: There's lots of that kind of thing.

GUEST: And I saw the square prints, like, on a, painted, for, like, $1,000 or $2,000, like that... APPRAISER: Yeah, that... GUEST: I couldn't find this when I looked online.

APPRAISER: It'd be hard, with an edition of four.

Do you want to guess on a number?

GUEST: Maybe, like, $5,000, $6,000?

APPRAISER: You're, you're getting there.

GUEST: Okay.

APPRAISER: It's, uh, the most recent auction price was right around $10,000, so... GUEST: $10,000, wow.

APPRAISER: So I would say an $8,000 to $10,000... GUEST: Holy cow.

APPRAISER: ...uh, auction estimate on it.

Retail price maybe even more, but... GUEST: Wow.

APPRAISER: But, I mean, it actually brought in that $8,000 to $10,000 range... GUEST: Okay.

APPRAISER: ...within the last few years.

GUEST: Okay, then recently-- that's awesome.

APPRAISER: So, and I... I appreciate you pulling it out of the dumpster.

GUEST: Yeah.

APPRAISER: Because it was, it was going to be an edition of three if you hadn't done that.

GUEST: (laughs)