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Folk artist Maud Lewis’s husband’s artwork, including fake signature, draws $5,500 - Halifax | Globalnews.ca

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Maud Lewis died in 1970 , leaving a legacy of paintings that depict bucolic rural scenes of her home province.

Her husband, Everett Lewis , had been her prime salesman while she was alive.

Near the end of her life he helped with her paintings, eventually doing his own works modelled on her style and images.

A similar painting of the two oxen in a winter scene, but with Everett Lewis’s signature, sold for only $4,250 .

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