Antiques Roadshow - Minerva Teichert Art
Antiques Roadshow came to Bismarck, North Dakota in 2015 and discovered a privately owned oil painting by Minerva Teichert. The family who owns the piece introduced it as a possible painting of a family member “I'm almost positive it's a painting of my brother-in-law, who was a sheep rancher in Wyoming. It was painted in 1959, and he died in 1964 - so it's been in the family since the time it was painted.”
It’s very rare to see Minerva Teichert paintings come for auction and so this was a great way to see her work showcased. The appraiser, Gene Shapiro explained that another piece of Minerva Teichert art recently came up for auction. The auction house estimated that the piece would only bring between $800 and $1,200: Shapiro explained “I can tell you that one Teichert work at auction, which was a similar subject, sold for $10,000 on an estimate of $800 to $1,200. So basically, that shows you that the interest was really significant, much more than the estimate.”
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Shapiro went on to explain: “It has Minerva Teichert’s typical palette, which is a kind of a subdued, but very light colors. She's one of those artists who are very famous, but they don't have that many works appear at auction, so to put a fair market value on it is a little harder. I would estimate this work at auction with a very conservative estimate of $10,000 to $15,000 - but I think that's conservative because with enough interest, which I'm sure there would be, given the fact that she's such an important Mormon artist, I think it could do a lot better. It could even go up to $20,000 or $30,000.”