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Angelina Jolie sells rare Winston Churchill painting at record price!
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Art column: Angelina Jolie sells rare Winston Churchill painting at record price!
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Kinjal Trivedi
Angelina Jolie sells rare Winston Churchill painting at record price!
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was a British politician, statesman, army officer, and a writer. He was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, during World War II, and again from 1951 to 1955.
He was also fond of painting landscapes, and it was one of his passions.
A rare Winston Churchill painting that was gifted to the former US President Franklin D. Roosevelt during World War II and eventually made its way into actor Angelina Jolie's collection has become the most expensive painting by the former British prime minister to sell at an auction, fetching nearly £8.3 million (approximately Rs84,59,12,760).
The work, "Tower of Koutoubia Mosque," was sold on March 1, by the Jolie Family Collection and features the long shadows and warm tones of a sunset in Marrakech, Morocco.
Morocco, along with warm hues of landscape that hold great depth of emotion, was a favorite subject of Churchill's paintings.
The sale took place at Christie’s in London. The sale more than tripled its high estimate of £2.5 million ($3.5 million). Churchill's previous record was £1.7 million ($2.7 million) in 2014 at Sotheby's London. According to a source with knowledge of the sale, actor Brad Pitt bought Churchill's sunset scene as a gift to Jolie in 2011.
It’s really a beautiful and surreal painting!
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was a British politician, statesman, army officer, and a writer. He was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, during World War II, and again from 1951 to 1955.
He was also fond of painting landscapes, and it was one of his passions.
A rare Winston Churchill painting that was gifted to the former US President Franklin D. Roosevelt during World War II and eventually made its way into actor Angelina Jolie’s collection has become the most expensive painting by the former British prime minister to sell at an auction, fetching nearly £8.3 million (approximately Rs84,59,12,760).
The work, “Tower of Koutoubia Mosque,” was sold on March 1, by the Jolie Family Collection and features the long shadows and warm tones of a sunset in Marrakech, Morocco.
Morocco, along with warm hues of landscape that hold great depth of emotion, was a favorite subject of Churchill’s paintings.
The sale took place at Christie’s in London. The sale more than tripled its high estimate of £2.5 million ($3.5 million). Churchill’s previous record was £1.7 million ($2.7 million) in 2014 at Sotheby’s London. According to a source with knowledge of the sale, actor Brad Pitt bought Churchill’s sunset scene as a gift to Jolie in 2011.
