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Bruce Arnold, who died on May 2 at the age of 87, liked nothing better than taking bold stances and finding himself at the centre of controversy.
Commissioned for the-then Prime Minister’s 80th birthday, the much-maligned and ultimately destroyed painting has another, earlier version set to go under the hammer.
(CNN) — “That is not a painting, it’s a humiliation!” Winston Churchill (played by John Lithgow) angrily tells the renowned painter Graham Sutherland (actor Stephen Dillane)<a class="excerpt-read-more" href="https://whdh.com/news/version-of-churchills-hated-portrait-immortalized-in-the-crown-goes-up-for-auction/">Read More</a>
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Together with her husband, Alan Hobart, she brought perspicacity, thorough research and a sharp eye to her collecting
Four of the Wakefield-born artist’s works are being sold by Christie’s.