An Ontario couple paid C$200 for a landscape painting at a rural yard sale; six years later the work was identified as E J Hughes’s Lake Okanagan and sold at auction for C$402,500
- Six years after the purchase, the painting, Lake Okanagan, was identified as a Hughes work and sold at auction for C$402,500.
- Hughes, a British Columbia painter's detailed landscapes have gained major value over the years.
- His work, once bought for a few hundred Canadian dollars, sells for hundreds of thou
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- Six years after the purchase, the painting, Lake Okanagan, was identified as a Hughes work and sold at auction for C$402,500.
- Hughes, a British Columbia painter's detailed landscapes have gained major value over the years.
- His work, once bought for a few hundred Canadian dollars, sells for hundreds of thou
Sources: Times of India