Buying and selling Maud Lewis paintings is big business — if they're real

Maud Lewis's simple scenes of rural life are selling for tens — and sometimes hundreds — of thousands of dollars. But Halifax art dealer Chad Brown says putting down that kind of money can be risky with the number of forgeries out there.

Buying and selling Maud Lewis paintings is big business — if they're real

Maud Lewis's simple scenes of rural life are selling for tens — and sometimes hundreds — of thousands of dollars. But Halifax art dealer Chad Brown says putting down that kind of money can be risky with the number of forgeries out there.