^ a b c d "Angelina Jolie sells Winston Churchill painting for record £7m".Roosevelt and sold by Angelina Jolie-sells for record £8.2m". "Winston Churchill's painting of Marrakech-given to President Franklin D. The picture is recorded as No.381 in the catalogue raisonné, Churchill: his paintings, prepared by the art historian David Coombs after Churchill's death and published in 1967. It depicts a distant view of the Marrakesh medina, with the city walls in the middle-distance, the Bab Doukkala gate to the left, with the minaret of the Bab Doukkala Mosque behind, the Kutubiyya Mosque to the right, and the Atlas Mountains in the background. The painting is oil on canvas, is 20" high and 24" wide, and bears Churchill's initials. The previous record price for a picture by Churchill was £1.765 million, achieved in 2014 for The Goldfish Pool at Chartwell (1932). It was described by Christie’s as "Churchill's most important work". In March 2021, the painting was sold by Jolie at a Christie's auction for £8.285 million, a record for a painting by Churchill. It was then bought by the actress Angelina Jolie. It remained in his family's ownership until it was placed with M.S. During Hickman’s ownership, the painting was exhibited at the National Churchill Museum at Fulton, Missouri. Hickman was a financier, collector and film producer, who had worked on The Finest Hours, a documentary on Churchill’s life. The painting was inherited by Roosevelt's son Elliot who sold it to George W. Churchill himself described the event in the fourth volume of his memoirs of the Second World War, The Hinge of Fate “I returned to the Villa Taylor, where I spent another two days in correspondence with the War Cabinet about my future movements, and painting from the tower the only picture I ever attempted during the war.” Tower of the Koutoubia Mosque was later given to President Roosevelt as a birthday present. Churchill: 1941-1945, records it as "the only picture he painted during the whole war". Martin Gilbert, in the 7th volume of his authorised biography, Road To Victory: Winston S. Churchill worked on the picture from the balcony of the city's Villa Taylor, where he and Roosevelt had stayed. Here, on 25/26 January 1943, he painted Tower of the Koutoubia Mosque. After the Casablanca Conference, some seven years later, he persuaded an initially reluctant Roosevelt to accompany him on a trip to Marrakech. Finding it conducive both to work and to painting, he wrote to his wife, Clementine, recording the newspaper articles and book chapters dictated, and the seven pictures completed among “brilliant sunshine, translucent air and swarms of picturesque inhabitants”. Despite initial reservations “the crowds, the smells and the general discomfort for painting have repelled me” he stayed for three weeks and came to love the city he termed ‘The Paris of the Sahara’. Disappointed by constant rain in Tangier over Christmas, he relocated to the city of Marrakech for the New Year. Ĭhurchill had first visited Morocco in the winter of 1935-1936. Churchill's telegram of 25 January 1943 to his wife, referencing his painting plans. Am going to paint a little this afternoon from roof of the same view of the pink gateway. We are here in a fairyland villa in Marrakech.
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