Appraisals
A selection of appraised work by the Makk family is presented here.
About Our Appraiser
No one knew more about Makk art and its value, than Larry V. LeDoux, D.A., a former professor at Hawaii Pacific University since 1990 (deceased, in 2025). He has done more certified appraisals of Makk art than any other certified fine art appraiser in the world. He authored a book in 1982 titled “The Makks: Eva, Americo, and A. B,. a Vernisage”.
Here is the bio of Larry V. LeDoux, D.A.
- Doctor of Arts degree, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon: 1973
- Instructor in Humanities, curriculum developer: humanities, journalism
Hawaii Pacific University, 1990-2025. - Asst. Professor, Communication, 1993-present.
ASSETS School, 1990-91, - Iolani School 1974-79.
- University of Hawaii-Manoa, 1966-70;
- West Oahu College, 1975-77.
- Books Authored:
- The Makks: Eva, Americo, and A. B., a Vernisage. 1982
- The Age of Sail in the Pacific: Raymond A. Massey’s Historical Marine Paintings, 1998
- Two Hundred Years of Hawaii Art: A History (chapter published in Hawaii Collectibles, Severson et. al. 1998).
- Fine Arts editor, writer, 1977 -present.
- Complete bibliography on request.
- Fine Arts editor, writer, 1977-2025
- Faculty Editor, Hawaii Pacific University Kalamalama, 1992-present
- Editor, Oahu Island News, 2000-2003
- Managing Editor, Hawaii Press (Kauai, Waikiki, Maui Beach Press newspapers) 1991-93.
- Contributing Editor, Hawaii magazine, 1990-94.
- Fine Arts Editor, Hawaii magazine, 1987-94.Hawaii Editor, Art Gallery International magazine, 1985-86.
- Fine Arts Editor, Hawaii Traveler magazine, 1984-1986.
- Fine Arts Editor, Artists in Paradise magazine, 1983-85.
- Fine Arts Editor, Paradise News, 1983-84.
- Fine Arts Editor, This Week magazines, 1980-82.
- Fine Arts columnist, contributor, Southwest Art magazine, 1978-80.
- Fine Arts business involvement:
- Gallery director, manager, curator: 1978-91. Print publisher: 1978-1990.
- Artist agent; PR, advertising, and marketing consultant; appraisals: 1980-present.
Method of Valuation used
Appraisals may be for Fair Market Value (FMV) (what a willing art buyer would give a willing art seller); for insurance purposes (value based on cost to replace the artwork if it is lost, damaged, or stolen); or Income Tax Purposes (FMB for donations, including preparation of IRS documents.) Values are based on the range of recent retail and/or auction sales (if any) by the artist of art objects of similar medium, size, technique, and subject matter: comparative values are then adjusted in consideration of:
- Aesthetics: particular complexities (excellences as well as deficiencies, holistic as well as comparative) of the art work appraised, especially in its handling of subject, technique and style.
- Uniqueness of the work in general and within the artist’s canon, including the work’s rarity of subject or medium and th history of its exhibition and publication.
- Recent accomplishments of the Artis, if any likely to affect the values of his or her work.
All appraisals are USPAP Certified. For serious investors or buyers, complete copies are available upon request.
Gallery of Appraised Art Work by Larry V. LeDoux, D.A.
You may click the title or image to enlarge it.
The appraised paintings from here to the dividing line are all available for sale.
These appraisals reflect Makk art in the high value range. We have a large selection of original Makk art (that has not been appraised) at multiple price points. During the past 50 years, the majority of Makk art has been sold in the $10,000 to $100,000 range (depending on size, subject, and complexity). Please contact us if you are interested in owning Makk Fine Art. You may also browse our Portfolio.
A Cobalt Pacific by Americo Makk
Cobalt Pacific by Americo Makk show a full moon over a tranquil blue Pacific with returning ships. Lured into this romantic piece with eloquent brush strokes infused variations blue, we are taken to paradise in a ti of idyllic harmony.
- Appraised Fair Market Value: $175,000.00
- Medium of Art: Oil on canvas
- Size: 20″x 24″ (unframed)
- Artist: Americo Makk
- Condition: Excellent
- Signature: Lower right
A Downtown in Winter by Americo Makk
Fluffy snow with a full moon captures the joys of people going about their lives. Some shopping, others going to visit friends and family, and some perhaps even going out to enjoy a meal. Our imaginations have no boundaries.
- Appraised Fair Market Value: $200,000.00
- Medium of Art: Oil on canvas
- Size: 30″x 24″ (unframed)
- Artist: Americo Makk
- Condition: Excellent
- Signature: Lower left
- Frame Value: N/A
A Happy Birthday by Americo Makk
A bouquet in hand, an elegant man holds a bouquet. In the front, an elegant lady with a soft smile, and her eyes a knowing look that will lead to a special evening. Love and romance lives forever in this painting.
- Appraised Fair Market Value: $200,000.00
- Medium of Art: Oil on canvas
- Size: 30″x 24″ (unframed)
- Frame Value: N/A
- Artist: Americo Makk
- Condition: Excellent
- Signature: Lower left
Apaches – Blue River by Eva Makk
A bend in the Blue River, with magnificent colorful rock formations creates an awe-inspiring landscape. With treacherous heights, and a dramatic lifestyle of the Apache tribe, it is a spectacular approach in an historical setting.
- Appraised Fair Market Value: $250,000.00
- Medium of Art: Oil on canvas
- Size: 24″x 30″ (unframed)
- Artist: Eva Makk
- Condition: Excellent
- Signature: Lower right
- Frame Value: N/A
Epic Seafarers by Eva Makk
The magnitude of the historical Pacific sea voyages are captured in this work of art. With the early golden morning lights there is Diamond Head in the background. We can sense the infusion of courage, beauty and human endeavor in this strong piece.
- Appraised Fair Market Value: $350,000.00
- Medium of Art: Oil on canvas
- Size: 24″x 30″ (unframed)
- Frame Value: N/A
- Artist: Americo Makk
- Condition: Excellent
- Signature: Lower right
Fountain Plaza Lights by Americo Makk
In a semi-misty atmosphere, a lovely young lady with a bouquet is awaiting the carriage for perhaps a very romantic evening. With the rest of the composition, we can envelop ourselves into a poetic realm of a bygone era.
- Appraised Fair Market Value: $275,000.00
- Medium of Art: Oil on canvas
- Size: 24″x 30″ (unframed)
- Frame Value: N/A
- Artist: Americo Makk
- Condition: Excellent
- Signature: Lower right
La Dame Blanche by Eva Makk
A Parisian landmark with pulsating atmosphere full of joy and comfort comes through in the multi-dynamic and emotional painting. in the multi-dynami and emotional painting. “La Dame Blanche” with bold colors and strong brush strokes infuses the rhythm of the “joie de vivre”.
- Appraised Fair Market Value: $250,000.00
- Medium of Art: Oil on canvas
- Size: 20″x 16″ (unframed)
- Frame Value: N/A
- Artist: Eva Makk
- Condition: Excellent
- Signature: Lower right
Roses and Wine by Eva Makk
Fragrant softness, hard cut crystal and pearls are skillfully harmonized in this painting.
- Appraised Fair Market Value: $225,000.00
- Medium of Art: Oil on canvas
- Size: 30″x 24″ (unframed)
- Frame Value: N/A
- Artist: Eva Makk
- Condition: Excellent
- Signature: Lower right
Sure Hand by Americo Makk
Pictured in a saloon, a character’s face playing cards, a saloon girl watching intently, and an older gentleman watching it all going down with a drink in hand. Doubt, admiration and sheer boldness are captured in the three faces in this masterful painting. In the eyes of the old man, we can feel the uncertainty. The soft smile and gaze of the young lady exudes enthusiasm. And then, the focus of the painting, the card player full of courage, steady hands, and piercing eyes showing determination of a winning hand… or is it bluff?
- Appraised Fair Market Value: $500,000.00
- Medium of Art: Oil on canvas
- Size: 30″x24″ (unframed)
- Frame Value: N/A
- Artist: Americo Makk
- Condition: Excellent
- Signature: Lower right
The American Epic by Americo, Eva and AB Makk
Americo, Eva and AB Makk all contributed to American Epic. The drama of a new nation is shown through this image of a stagecoach and horseback rider making their way along a river bed. A snow-capped mountain is behind them. The artists traveled throughout numerous states to gather information on how the American pioneers lived. This emotional painting depicts some of the perils or that era.
Appraised Fair Market Value: $7,000,000.00
Medium of Art: Oil on canvas
Size: 7′ x 5′ (unframed)
Artists: Americo, Eva & AB Makk
Condition: Excellent
Frame Value: N/A
Signature: Yes
The Healer – Trail of Tears by Eva Makk
A work of art infused with the drama of the Cherokee Indians displacement. The fear, anger, desperation, inhumanity, pains are depicted in all aspects of this painting. From the landscape to the expressions, all show hopelessness. The Cherokee knew a land of bounty, peacefulness and a life of joy. They were forced to take a horrendous, serious march full of agony and death, to an undesirable land to start their lives again; into the darkness.
This epic piece took several years to complete, including the research of the clothing, implements, baskets, and way of life, as well as information about the march. This piece also took a toll on the Artis, Eva Makk. She empathized with her subject and felt deeply on her journey to complete this masterpiece.
- Appraised Fair Market Value: $2,025,000.00
- Medium of Art: Oil on canvas
- Size: 30″x 40″ (unframed)
- Frame Value: N/A
- Artist: Eva Makk
- Condition: Excellent
- Signature: Lower right
The paintings below are part of the Hungarian Millecentennial historical suite in the Museum of Hungarian Military History in Budapest. These works are not available for sale. Collectively, these 13 paintings were appraised (in May of 2009), by Larry V. Ledoux, D.A.) for $19,500,000.00 (with an average appraised value per painting of $1,500,000.00).
Arpad, the Birth of Hungary by Americo Makk
Seven powerful tribes were the core groups that formed the Magyar people from whom emerged the Hungarian nation. They established a federation, codified a national constitution, and elected Arpad, leader of the largest tribe, as hereditary ruler of land to be obtained by common effort and shared by all. Here, in 895 C.E., he leads them across the Carpathian mountains into their new homeland, where the nation was formed in 896.
Appraisal Date: 15 May, 2009
Medium of Art: Oil on canvas
Size: 72″ x 96″ (unframed)
Frame Value: N/A
Artist: Americo Makk
Condition: Excellent
Signature: Lower left
Hungary 1956: God! We Did It!
The young freedom fighters at the center of the painting, with their children, represent the Hungarian people, with parliament and the church in the background and political and spiritual leaders Maleter and Mindszenty united behind the nation’s people. The wounded to the left, and the shattered Soviet emblem in the foreground, are unmistakable symbols of Hungary’s embrace of freedom regained, and its cost.
Appraisal Date: 15 May 2009
Medium of Art: Oil on canvas
Size: 72″ x 96″ (unframed)
Frame Value: N/A
Artist: Americo Makk
Condition: Excellent
Signature: Lower right
King Andrew II by Americo Makk
Andrew II, 1205-1235, was politically corrupt and economically inept. His alienation of Hungarian nobility led to rebellion in 1213. The Servientes, the professional court soldiers, compelled him to sign Hungary’s equivalent of the Magna Carta, the Golden Bull, in 1222, guaranteeing their personal rights and the right of rebellion against the king and eliminating taxation of the nobility. Painting is detail of the full image.
Appraisal Date: 15 May 2009
Medium of Art: Oil on canvas
Size: 96″ x 72″ (unframed)
Frame Value: N/A
Artist: Americo Makk
Condition: Excellent
Signature: Lower right
King Mathias: The Golden Age of the Hungarian Renaissance
Mathias (1458-1490) was literally a Renaissance man: a soldier and humanist and patron of the arts, sciences, and church, he sponsored the famed Buda Picture Chronicle and united Central Europe politically and economically. The painting depicts him showing Beatrix, his Italian queen whose name means “beauty,” a model of their new palace, while around them work scientists, painters, sculptors, and architects, printers, codex writers, and musicians.
Appraisal Date: 15 May 2009
Medium of Art: Oil on canvas
Size: 72″ x 96″ (unframed)
Frame Value: N/A
Artist: Americo Makk
Condition: Excellent
Signature: Lower left
Liberty Cherished by Eva Makk
With the flag as its pinnacle, Eva Makk has celebrated her nation and her family. Light floods through the center of the Hungarian flag from which the Soviet emblem has been cut-sheltering the wounded and illuminating the child, Eva’s grand daughter, Alexandra, held up by her son, a symbol of Hungary’s future. At left, holding the flag, is her husband and partner, Americo. Beyond him, flames consume the oppressors.
Appraisal Date: 15 May, 2009
Medium of Art: Oil on canvas
Size: 96″ x 72″ (unframed)
Frame Value: N/A
Artist: Eva Makk
Condition: Excellent
Signature: Lower left
Our Nation in Mourning by Eva Makk
Depicts a disabled tank, shattered and burning apartments, and an unknown man, at left, writing on a coffin. Another man clutches to his heart a tattered Hungarian flag.
Appraisal Date: 15 May 2009
Medium of Art: Oil on canvas
Size: 72″ x 96″ (unframed)
Frame Value: N/A
Artist: Eva Makk
Condition: Excellent
Signature: Lower right
St. Stephen King of Hungary by Americo Makk
As King from 997-1038, Stephen (who was canonized 83 years after his death) Christianized Hungary and gained recognition of its independence from Pope Sylvester II in the form of a crown and title, “King by the Grace of God.” The painting, set in the 10th-century Benedictine Abbey at Pannonhalma, depicts many of the visible elements of Stephen’s reign, including his queen, Gisela, and St. Imre, first crown prince of Hungary.
Appraisal Date: 15 May 2009
Medium of Art: Oil on canvas
Size: 72″ x 96″ (unframed)
Frame Value: N/A
Artist: Americo Makk
Condition: Excellent
Signature: Lower left
The Battle for Nandorfehervar, 1456 by Americo Makk
The city, named for its white castle is today’s Belgrade, in Serbia, but in 1456 it was the seat of government for Hungary and the southern reaches of the Danube. Turkey’s Sultan Mohamed Julius IV besieged the city with an army of 150,000 soldiers. The outnumbered defenders resisted for three months, until, running out of food, General Hunyadi Janos, father of the future king, Mathias, threw open the gates and, supported by the cleric Kapisztran Janos, later S.t John Kapisztran, lead a furious counterattack. The enraged Sultan died of apoplexy, and the disorganized attackers fled, leaving 300 cannon and 200 ships.
Appraisal Date:15 May 2009
Medium of Art: Oil on canvas
Size: 72″ x 96″ (unframed)
Frame Value: N/A
Artist: Americo Makk
Condition: Excellent
Signature: Lower right
The Battle Of Pressburg by Americo Makk
Maneuverability and brilliant tactics won against overwhelming numbers. The European forces at left-heavy cavalry and armor-are ponderous and weary from looting and their long march. Arpad’s light cavalry and fast-striking operations corner them against the Danube and shower them with flights of arrows. The reverse of the canvas includes the family crest and the phrase “Magyarok Fenyes Gyozelme – Brilliant Hungarian Victory.”
Appraisal Date: 15 May 2009
Medium of Art: Oil on canvas
Size: 72″ x 96″ (unframed)
Frame Value: N/A
Artist: Americo Makk
Condition: Excellent
Signature: Lower right
The Feeling of Freedom by Eva Makk
Inspired by a photo of the first moments of the 1956 revolution, the painting depicts a jubilant, unorganized crowd of Hungarian civilians shortly after they seized a Soviet tank outside of the Hungarian Parliament in Pest. The Soviet symbol has been cut from the flag, and the Hungarian emblem has been painted on the tank. Despite the nonviolent beginnings, the Hungarian and Soviet secret police began shooting civilians. Hungarian young people armed themselves by breaking open Soviet armories, and forced the Soviets to retreat for a week, while Hungary waited for world validation. When the Free World did not support free Hungarians, the Soviets counterattacked.
Appraisal Date: 15 May 2009
Medium of Art: Oil on canvas
Size: 96″ x 72″ (unframed)
Frame Value: N/A
Artist: Eva Makk
Condition: Excellent
Signature: Lower left
The Liberation of Buda, 1686 by Americo Makk
In 1526 Suleiman the Magnificent lead an army of 300,000 Turks on a quest ot conquer the world. He failed. For 160 years, the Hungarian nation protected Western Europe from the Ottoman Empire, and in 1686, in a decisive battle for the liberation of Buda, ended Turkish rule.
Appraisal Date: 15 May 2009
Medium of Art: Oil on canvas
Size: 72″ x 96″ (unframed)
Frame Value: N/A
Artist: Americo Makk
Condition: Excellent
Signature: Lower left
The Murder of Hungarian Freedom by Americo Makk
After its victorious Freedom Fight, Hungary was an independent, free, and neutral nation for 13 days, from October 23 until November 4, 1956, when the Soviet Union attacked it with full military force. The “Free World” did not support Hungary’s efforts to become free, and the Soviets, in retaliation for the revolution, launched a full-scale invasion against the nation and its people. The streets of the capital became slippery with Hungarian blood as the nation’s freedom, and its people, were murdered.
- Appraised Fair Market Value: $1,500,000.00
- Appraisal Date: 15 May, 2009
- Medium of Art: Oil on canvas
- Size: 72″ x 96″ (unframed)
- Frame Value: N/A
- Artist: Americo Makk
- Condition: Excellent
- Signature: Lower left
Triumphant Defense of Hungarian Heroes by Eva Makk
At the battle of Pozsonyi (Pressburg) on the Danube in summer 907 C.E, about 30,000 Hungarian irregulars, mostly farmers called from tending their fields, defeated an invading army of more than 100,000 German, French, and Italian professional soldiers. On this evening of the second day of battle, the Hungarians cut the invaders’ supply lines by holing their boats, setting them on fire – flaming arrows arch through the sky – and then rounding up everyone who swam to shore. Survivors were eventually repatriated.
Appraisal Date: 15 May 2009
Medium of Art: Oil on canvas
Size: 72″ x 96″ (unframed)
Frame Value: N/A
Artist: Eva Makk
Condition: Excellent
Signature: Lower left
