GUEST: I've got this collage painting, it's an estate sale find.

It's the rare piece in my house where both my wife and I a-appreciate it.

It's the thing in the house that everybody likes.

APPRAISER: When was this estate sale?

GUEST: Two, two-and-a-half years ago.

APPRAISER: How much did you pay for it at that estate sale?

GUEST: It was $390 at most.

APPRAISER: The artist is Rosemary Karuga-- she was a Kenyan artist.

She was born in 1928.

GUEST: Mm-hmm.

APPRAISER: And she went to school in 1950.

And between 1950 and 1952, was studying in Uganda.

She studied as an artist, but she had to return to Kenya, and for the next 30 years, was teaching art in primary school, but also a housewife.

Even though she was at the forefront of being one of the first female art students at a major art school in Africa.

GUEST: Gotcha.

APPRAISER: She picked up art again after she turned 60.

What she started using was materials from newspapers and glossy foreign magazines.

Artist materials are expensive and she wasn't from a very wealthy background.

She built her composition up almost like a painter would build up, using layers.

What she enjoyed depicting was life, rural Kenya.

She was living outside of Nairobi.

On the lower middle right, It is signed and dated.

Uh, it's dated 1989 and signed, "Karuga."

She started getting a lot of exhibitions.

She flew for the first time on a plane after 60 years old.

GUEST: Mm-hmm.

APPRAISER: She went to, uh, Paris and the U.K., her works were even exhibited at The Studio Museum in Harlem in 1990.

So she found fame later in life.

So you're never too old to start, uh, to start again.

She passed away in 2021, and her work has been selling pretty well.

I would put a conservative auction estimate of $2,000 to $3,000 on it.

GUEST: Pr-pretty good at $390, so.

I always tell people when I'm out at these estate sales that, like, one of the reasons I'm there is to find my ANTIQUES ROADSHOW piece.

So I more than exceeded its value in that regard.