Couple bought painting for C$200; six years later, it sold for C$402,500

An Ontario couple who paid just C$200 for a landscape painting at a rural yard sale in 2001 later discovered that they had bought a work by renowned Canadian artist E J Hughes, literary weboste BC Booklook reported. 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 thousands and even millions at auction.Hughes is also the focus of a new documentary by Coquitlam filmmaker Jenn Strom. The Painted Life of E J Hughes looks at the artist’s life, his connection with British Columbia and the quiet way in which he worked.