It may not be a masterpiece, but to a Stratford, Ont. family, it is priceless.
The painting, which depicts red poppies and blue mountains, isn’t valuable because of its provenance. But, rather, because of the person who bought it.
“We went to France to celebrate [my mother’s] 60th birthday and she bought it from the artist,” explained Sarah Luk Hill. “My mother, unfortunately, now has advanced stage dementia.”
When her mother was eventually moved into a care facility, Luk Hill brought the painting home.
“I always feel like I’m the steward of this picture,” she said. “It’s not really mine, it’s hers and I look after it for her on my wall.”
The painting that went missing from Sarah Luk Hill’s home. (Jeff Pickel/CTV News)
Then the painting went missing in August 2023.
It wasn’t some mastermind art heist, more like an intoxicated mistake.
“One of my children had a party and somebody took it, and when they …