See the Canadian Art That Just Blew Christie's Auction House Away

Here are the 2 early 19th-century oil paintings by an anonymous Canadian artist that were estimated to sell for a maximum of $74,860 as a pair at a London auction yesterday. The pair sold for a whopping $992,880 — that's 13 times the asking price.
Both paintings depict Mi'kmaqs hunting Canada geese. The anonymous artist was based in New Brunswick or Nova Scotia. Let's have a look. Here's the first piece:

And some details of the first piece:


Woman in birchbark canoe with a baby on her back. Magical.
Snowshoes, toboggan, dogs. My understanding is that she is beading in the teepee.
Here is the second piece:

And some close-ups: Another woman depicted with a baby, plus a dog in the canoe and one in the water retrieving. What a delight.
Snowshoes strapped to his back, dog at his foot. Beautiful
The paintings were part of Peter Winkworth's collection. He passed in 2005 and had collected thousands of artifacts of Canada's colonial history.
These paintings were sold to an unidentified Canadian — was it you?
For more information on the sale, check out James Adams' front page story in today's Globe and Mail.
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