Posted on 03/02/2021 6:53:22 AM PST by C19fan
Actress Angelina Jolie has sold a Moroccan landscape painting by British premier Winston Churchill for more than £8million, smashing the previous record for one of the World War Two leader's artworks.
The painting, which is called 'Tower of the Koutoubia Mosque', sold at London auction house Christie's for a staggering £8.3million.
It was completed after the 1943 Casablanca Conference, where Churchill and Franklin D Roosevelt planned the defeat of Nazi Germany - and was later gifted to the US President as a memento of their trip to Marrakech.
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“But nobody ever said a bad word about Winston Churchill, did they? No! ‘Win with Winnie!’ Churchill! With his cigars. With his brandy. And his rotten painting, rotten! Hitler - there was a painter! He count paint an entire apartment in one afternoon! Two Coats!”
Did its value come from being painted by Churchill or being owned by Jolie?
There is an interesting scene in AN AMERICAN IN PARIS when Gene Kelly is carrying his paintings to a show and passes a man painting who looks like Churchill painting at easel.
Gene does a double take at that moment. I bet today’s youth have no understanding of that moment.
LOL! Love it.
I’ve seen his paintings in person...he was pretty good.
No doubt value from Churchill painting them.
Huh...going to do a double-take on that as well!
Hahaha...it brought to mind for some reason the scene in “Rat Race” where the family visits the Barbie Museum...
The Klaus Barbie Museum...)
Hey, I discovered the secret meaning:
A mosque is a Church
That mountain in the background is a Hill
Churchill referred to his own paintings as “my daubs”
#4 An American in Paris — Jerry Mulligan (Gene Kelly) wants to sell some paintings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shpVA9rSHuc
At 25 sec in you think you see Churchill....
Art has a way of eventually falling into the hands of people who love, treasure and will take care of it. I'm guessing Roosevelt's son was a 'born on third' type... glad he sold it.
I can see you regard him well, from you Freep Handle...:)
I was going on a road trip a few years back, no destination, no itinerary, and was driving through Missouri (on my way from Kentucky to Nebraska...I was originally going to go to the Four Corners Monument, but just didn't have enough time, so one night having dinner in Louisville, KY, realized I had to choose another destination and blindly put my finger down on a map and chose...Nebraska! Never BEEN to Nebraska!
So, after dinner, I got in my car and drove northwest. I wanted to see the great arch. I got there around 1 AM, IIRC, and thought "Dang. I thought it was a lot bigger than that! (I had been warned not to stop there after hours or get out of my car, so...I kept driving and found a motel on the other side of St. Louis.
Next morning I continued my drive, and as I drove down the highway, I saw a sign: "The National Churchill Museum"!!!!
Well, I spent half my day there, being as big a fan of him as I am! They had a lot of his paintings there, and my wife was very much into painting at that time, so...I knew she would be interested.
Loved the Churchill movie with Gary Oldman. I thought you might find this entertaining:
Churchill (Gary Oldman) dances to James Brown "Get up offa that thing!"
Did not know that there such a thing as a National Churchill Museum in the USA. I think it was in St. Louis that he made the famous iron curtain speech.
As a blond English girl growing up in wartime England I was brought up to respect WSLSC. Hitler had plans for little girls like me !
As I grew up my admiration for him deepened. A great man !
I see from your home page that you are a veteran. Thank you for your service and God Bless you !
It was indeed where he gave his famous “Iron Curtin” speech.
For me, I hated seeing his treatment by the British people change as he left government and got older, but...he isn’t the only one who had many of his own people turn their backs on him and ridicule him.
He was a flawed man, no doubt. But as I get older, the conviction that the pursuit of heroes who are free of flaws is not only counterproductive, but ignorant.
For my part...I have come to embrace his flaws as part of who he was. One of my favorite stories (apart from the “If you were my husband I would poison your tea” story) is the one of his young female secretary who had to explain to him why his two fingered gesture to the British press had put everyone into such an uproar.
He had no idea, from his station in life, that the two finger victory sign delivered knuckle out meant something quite different to the lower classes!
I can just see, as he realizes this, a hint of amusement on his face...:)
Love it!
And thank you for recognizing my service. One of the things that I enjoy about this forum is it allows me to see and recognize those who served, and there are a lot of them on here!
FRegards
Undoubtedly.
Thank you.
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