@twistedgemini,
Where's the picture?
I was given an original oil painting by Dan Piel after our trip to South Africa where I met him. He was a professor at Cal Poly at the time, but passed away a few years later.
In trying to find a value for the painting for insurance, I ran across a link that provides how to estimate the price by it's size and multiplying it by $1.92. I'm sure that's for only for an estimate for insurance purposes.