An Ontario couple bought an E J Hughes painting for just C$200 at a rural yard sale in 2001. Six years later, the artwork was identified as Lake Okanagan by the renowned Canadian artist and sold for C$402,500. Here’s the remarkable story behind the painting, Hughes’ career as a Canadian war artist and the new documentary exploring his quiet life in British Columbia.
According to BC BookLook, Rivers Inlet sold for $920,000 in 2005, at the time becoming the highest price paid for a work by a living Canadian artist.