Upstate Professor Helps Solve Art Heist

PATRICK: PAINTINGS OF HORSES ARE PLENTIFUL OF COURSE, BUT ONE , PARTICULAR PAINTING OF A WOMAN ON A HORSE CAME INTO THIS AUCTION HOUSE IN LAURENS RECENTLY, AND IT'S GOTTEN NATIONAL ATTENTION. MISSING FOR 13 YEARS, AN 84-YEAR-OLD OIL PAINTING WORTH MORE THAN $1 MILLION HAS BEEN FOUND, THANKS TO TWO ART ENTHUSIASTS FROM THE UPSTATE. >> I MEAN, YOU OPEN SOMETHING, AND THERE SHE WAS. PATRICK: RETIRED CONVERSE COLLEGE PROFESSOR AND ARCHITECT FRAZER PAJAK SIMPLY DROPPED BY IVEY AUCTION HOUSE TO TAKE PICTURES, AND ON THIS NEW PAINTING, ALONG WITH OTHERS WHICH HAD JUST ARRIVED, OWNER JOHN IVEY BEGAN A ROUTINE BACKGROUND CHECK. >> I WENT TO GET MY COMPUTER TO THEM AND AS FRAZER CAME AROUND , THE CORNER AND SAW THE PAINTINGS, THERE IT WAS. >> YOU KNOW WHEN YOU KNOW. PAINTING, DONE BY A BRITISH IMPRESSIONIST, IS ONE OF 11 WORKS OF ART RECOVERED, AFTER BEING STOLEN FROM THE HISTORIC MUSEUM IN GEORGETOWN COUNTY BACK IN 2003. FROM HIS RESEARCH THERE, PROFESSOR PAJAK KNEW EXACTLY DISPLAYED. >> THOSE PAINTINGS WERE DEFINITELY THE CORE OF HOBCAW. >> IF FRAZER SAID THEY WERE STOLEN FROM HOBCAW BARONY THEN THEY WERE. I DIDN'T QUESTION THAT AT ALL. AND IMMEDIATELY YOU HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY TO GET THESE RECONNECTED TO THE OWNER. PATRICK: BOTH MEN SAY A REWARD HAS BEEN MENTIONED, BUT NOT OFFERED. HOWEVER, "BELLE ON A HORSE" IS NOW HANGING BACK AT HOBCAW THE REWARD.