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Bill Rau, third generation owner of M.S. Rau Antiques and Fine Arts in the historic French Quarter of New Orleans, started 2012 already thinking ahead to the next one hundred ...
Email is invalid Sir Winston Churchill, ‘Tower of the Koutoubia Mosque,’ 1943. Sold for $11.5 million at Christie's, London. Christie's British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, an amateur artist, gifted a landscape painting to President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1943 that sold for a record price for his work at Christie's on Monday. The Moroccan landscape Tower of the Koutoubia Mosque brought 8.3 million pounds, or about $11.5 million, with fees, far above the estimate of $2.1 million to $3.4 million. It was the star lot in Christie’s evening auction of Modern British Art in London...
Anglofiles and history buffs already know that Sir Winston Churchill is considered âThe Greatest Englishman of All Time,â according to a recent poll released in Britain. But did you know that besides Churchill being in the same league as legendary statesmen Thomas Jefferson and Talleyrand, he was also the stout defender of the âfree peoples,â the author of 43 books, as well as accomplished landscape painter. Â In fact, he earned the prestigious "Honorary Academician Extraordinary by the Royal Academy of Arts" award in 1948. During the last 50 years of his life-- he did n...
Moroccan landscape owned by Hollywood's former golden couple may fetch £2.5m at auction