“I purchased it at a resale shop in Sarasota in 2015,” Sandra Daugherty explained to appraiser Brian Thomczek at a recent Trash or Treasure appraisal held at the Michigan Design Center in Troy. “I paid $114 and thought it would look good in my bathroom … at first I thought she was bathing.”

Thomczek identified the piece — a pencil-signed print — as a work by artist Josef /Joseph Auguste Steib. Born in 1898 in Munich, Steib died in 1957. Measuring 19 by 15, Daughterty’s piece is unusual for the artist, Thomczek told her at the event. “According to my research, he really didn’t do a lot of portraits,” he explained. He is better known for still lifes and landscapes, especially pastoral German scenes, he added.

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