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Over $11 Million! Painting by Winston Churchill Breaks Auction Records
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Christie s Spring Season of Global 20th Century Sales launches in London and New York
Van Goghs La Mousmé achieves one of the highest prices for a work on paper by the artist, selling in New York (£7,459,614 / $10,436,000 / 8,623,314). © Christie s Images Ltd 2021.
NEW YORK, NY
.-Christies global spring season of 20th Century art sales launched in London and New York on 1 March 2021, achieving a total across the evening of £43,702,515 / $61,139,818 / 50,520,107, with collectors convening from 12 countries over 5 continents and combined sell-through rates of 98% by lot and 100% by value. The series of sales was opened in New York with A Family Collection: Works on Paper, Van Gogh to Freud, a grouping of eight exquisite works on paper that saw the market bidding competitively for exceptional quality, with a total of £18,070,765 / $25,281,000 / 20,889,804 realised. The sale was led by Van Goghs rare portrait La Mousmé, one of the finest works on paper of the artist
Winston Churchill painting breaks previous auction record 4 times over
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The artwork, Tower of the Koutoubia Mosque, completed in 1943 by Winston Churchill, fetched some four times its auction estimate of between $2.1 million and $3.5 million. File Image courtesy of Christie s
March 2 (UPI) A painting by former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and once owned by Angelina Jolie broke auction records in London this week, selling for $11.59 million.
The artwork,
Tower of the Koutoubia Mosque, completed in 1943, fetched some four times its auction estimate of between $2.1 million and $3.5 million, Christie s London said. The landscape is of Marrakesh, Morocco, a favorite subject of Churchill s.
Christie s Modern British Art Evening Sale now online for browsing
Henry Moore, Maquette for King and Queen, conceived and cast in 1952, estimate: £750,000-1,000,000. © Christie s Images Ltd 2021.
LONDON
.- The Modern British Art Evening Sale will be led by Sir Winston Churchills Tower of the Koutoubia Mosque (1943, estimate: £1,500,000-2,500,000), offered from The Jolie Family Collection. It is presented alongside two further works by the former Prime Minister of the UK, Scene at Marrakech (circa 1935, estimate: £300,000-500,000), offered by order of the Trustees of Viscount Montgomerys Will Trust and St Pauls Churchyard (1927, estimate: £200,000-300,000). Masters of British sculpture include outstanding examples by Lynn Chadwick, Barry Flanagan, Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore and William Turnbull. Sir John Laverys painting of Doris Delevingne, The Viscountess Castlerosse, Palm Springs (1938, estimate: £400,000-600,000) is offered from the collection of Charles Dele
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