Landscape Winston Churchill praised in 150 thousand pounds
September 20, will be bidding the auction house Dickins Auctioneers, which can be purchased one of the landscapes of Winston Churchill, which is estimated at 100-150 thousand pounds
Written Winston Churchill in the 1930's and the landscape may be for auction houses Dickins Auctioneers assessing thousands of 100-150 pounds (177-265 thousand dollars). The painting lay in the attic and thirty years, and its identification required 10 months, reported the newspaper The Telegraph. Auction appointed on September 20.
This picture shows the mansion Uindlshem Moore that, in the county of Surrey in 1947, lived in the house just to marry the Princess Elizabeth, the future Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Philip and Mauntbatten. A canvas has neither the name nor the signature, which, incidentally, is quite typical for Churchill: he was not greatly raised their artistic abilities. The picture he presented to Lord Taylor, in the war years the Director of Internal Intelligence at the Ministry of Information. Lord Taylor peredaril of its Secretary, and that - to his son. The latter is not fed to the landscape Churchill, no feelings, and thirty years kept him in the attic.
Churchill's paintings and watercolors are highly valued in the auction: In recent years, some of his work sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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