This June, Sotheby’s London is offering a portrait study of British icon Winston Churchill by Modernist artist Graham Sutherland, with a high estimate of £800,000 ($995,000). In the painting, said ...
LONDON (AP) — A portrait of Winston Churchill by an artist whose work the British leader loathed went on display Tuesday at Churchill’s birthplace ahead of an auction in June. The painting by ...
Editor’s Note: This story has been updated with the final sale result. “That is not a painting, it’s a humiliation!” Winston Churchill (played by John Lithgow) angrily tells the renowned painter ...
British Painter Graham Sutherland divides his time and affections between the green downs of Kent and the blue sweep of the Riviera. His paintings have the neatness of one and the brightness of the ...
For his 80th birthday in 1954, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill received more than 150,000 gifts from around the globe. One gift in particular, a portrait commissioned by the Houses of ...
But other than these tenuous connections, you may find little common ground between the pair. Sutherland’s imagery reaches back to the 19 th-century Romantic tradition through painters such as Samuel ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. LONDON (AP) — A portrait of Winston ...