“The Paintings of Sir Winston Churchill” exhibition is on view at Heather James Gallery (San Francisco, California) through July 27, 2018. It was put up for sale with an estimated selling price of. ‘Like a sea-beast fished up from the depths, or a diver too suddenly hoisted, my veins threatened to burst from the fall in pressure. He continued to paint for the next forty years.

In 2012, a previously unknown oil entitled ‘Still Life with Orchids’ materialised, having been in the Sandys family ever since Churchill presented it to Margot Sandys, the young wife of his daughter’s father-in-law. Churchill took to painting, at the age of forty, with his customary gusto, seeing it as his salvation from despair ‘the Muse of Painting came to my rescue’.

These paintings formed part of a touring exhibition organized by the Millennium Gate Museum, Atlanta, Georgia (2014–15), commemorating the 50th anniversary of Churchill’s death. Paintings by Churchill are still being discovered. Sir Winston Churchill, “An Avenue at Frinton-on-Sea Essex with Miss Diana Churchill,” c. The nine landscapes along with a coastal scene and a still life depict friends’ estates and gardens, as well as family vacation spots, including some of Churchill’s favorite travel destinations in France and Morocco. Vince, 11, Browning Road, Ipswich, and formerly of Westerfield. Widely known as the greatest statesman of the 20th century and the savior of Western civilization, a Nobel Prize winner, and the subject of a recent Academy Award–nominated film, more people than ever are taking an interest in Sir Winston Churchill (1874–1965), yet few are aware that he was an avid painter.Įleven oil paintings by Churchill from the 1920s to 1940s, from the collection of the family of the late Julian Sandys, the eldest of Churchill’s grandchildren, will join the spotlight in “The Paintings of Sir Winston Churchill.” Sir Winston Churchill, “The Sunken Garden at La Dragonniere, Cap Martin,” c. The RAF sustained heavy casualties during this period, with Winston Churchill.

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