Winston Churchill painting sells for 1 million pounds
A painting by Sir Winston Churchill of his Chartwell estate near Westerham in Kent fetched 1 million pounds at Sotheby's in London yesterday, a world record auction price for a work by Britain's wartime prime minister.
The 76in x 63.5in (193cm x 161cm) landscape was painted in the war years of the early 1940s, about 20 years after Churchill moved into the much-modified Elizabethan manor house. The picture was bought by a private collector.
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The 76in x 63.5in (193cm x 161cm) landscape was painted in the war years of the early 1940s, about 20 years after Churchill moved into the much-modified Elizabethan manor house. The picture was bought by a private collector.