An Ontario auction house expects some original art made by Everett Lewis, the husband of famed Nova Scotia artist Maud Lewis, could sell in an auction ending Sunday for as much as $5,000 a painting.

The art seller said if someone came to Everett Lewis’s door in the years after his wife died and wanted one of her pieces he’d “give them a Maud Lewis painting,” even if it was one of his own.

The art seller said if someone came to Everett Lewis's door in the years after his wife died and wanted one of her pieces he'd "give them a Maud Lewis painting," even if it was one of his own.

Maud Lewis died in 1970, leaving a legacy of paintings that depict bucolic rural scenes of her home province — and which now routinely sell for tens of thousands of dollars each. Her husband, Everett ...