A Moroccan landscape painted by Winston Churchill and owned by Angelina Jolie sold at auction Monday for nearly $11.6 million, smashing the record for a work by Britain’s World War II leader.
“Tower of the Koutoubia Mosque” sold at Christie’s in London for 8,285,000 pounds, or about $11,590,175. The painting had been estimated at about $2 million to $3.5 million, and the previous record price for a Churchill painting was around $2.5 million. The image of the 12th century mosque in Marrakech at sunset, with the Atlas Mountains in the background, is a piece of both political and Hollywood history.
The only painting that Britain’s wartime prime minister completed during the 1939-45 conflict, it was completed after the January 1943 Casablanca Conference, where Churchill and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt planned the defeat of Nazi Germany.The two leaders visited Marrakech after the conference so that Churchill could show Roosevelt the city’s beauty. Churchill gave the painting to Roosevelt as a memento of the trip.
The painting was sold by Roosevelt’s son after the president’s death in 1945 and had several owners before Jolie and Brad Pitt bought it in 2011.
I think it is lovely that the wokest of woke princess makes money from a painting by someone who is so despised by wokies throughout the land for being racist, a supporter of the British Empire and a war criminal. Two faced, duplicitous old crone that she is.
Income inequality at it’s best ...
No one cares. 🥱
prison dining room please
Looks just as cool upside down
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