Yard-sale find expected to yield $100,000 at auction
Published May 16th, 2007
A painting by British Columbia artist E. J. Hughes will come under the hammer next week at Heffel Fine Art Auction House, six years after an enterprising art collector found it at a rural yard sale.
The painting, originally purchased for $200 cash, is expected to fetch more than $100,000 at auction.
Paul Martin has been browsing flea markets, thrift stores and garage sales for more than a decade in quest of the art and antiques that fill his Southern Ontario home.
The painting, along with 218 other works, will be auctioned May 23.
