Winston Churchill artwork is sold for £8m by Angelina Jolie: Oil 絵 of Marrakesh made by PM after agreeing 策略 with US 大統領 Roosevelt during WWII sells for 記録，記録的な／記録する 量

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Actress Angelina Jolie has sold a Moroccan landscape 絵 by British 首相 Winston Churchill for more than £8million, 粉砕するing the previous 記録，記録的な／記録する for one of the World War Two leader's artworks.??

The 絵, which is called 'Tower of the Koutoubia イスラム教寺院', sold at London auction house Christie's for a staggering £8.3million.?

It was 完全にするd after the 1943 Casablanca 会議／協議会, where Churchill and Franklin D Roosevelt planned the 敗北・負かす of Nazi Germany - and was later gifted to the US 大統領?as a memento of their trip to?Marrakech.

Prices for Churchill's work have gone up in 最近の years, with his 絵 of goldfish at his Chartwell home selling for £1.8million at a?Sotheby's sale in 2014.?

The image of the 12th-century イスラム教寺院 in Marrakech at sunset, with the Atlas Mountains in the background,?was sold by the Jolie Family Collection, but the 買い手 - 報道によれば ベルギー - was not すぐに 指名するd.?

The same （弁護士の）依頼人 bought all three Churchill 絵s in tonight's sale, 含むing 'Scene at Marrakech' (c. 1935) for £1.8million and 'St Paul's Churchyard' (c. 1927) for £1million - all 井戸／弁護士席 above their 見積（る）s.???

'Tower of the Koutoubia イスラム教寺院', the only piece of art that Churchill 完全にするd during the war, sold at London auction house Christie's for a staggering £8.3million on Monday?

Actress Angelina Jolie sold a Moroccan landscape 絵 by Churchill for more than £8million, 粉砕するing the previous 記録，記録的な／記録する for one of the World War Two leader's artworks

The 絵 was sold by Roosevelt's son after the 大統領's death in 1945, and had several owners before Jolie and partner Brad Pitt bought it in 2011.

The couple separated in 2016 and have spent years enmeshed in 離婚 訴訟／進行s, まっただ中に 憶測 about the 分割 of their 広範囲にわたる art collection.

They were 宣言するd 離婚d in 2019 after their lawyers asked for a bifurcated judgment - meaning that two married people can be 宣言するd 選び出す／独身 while other 問題／発行するs, 含むing 財政／金融s and child 保護／拘留, remain.?

It was 完全にするd after the January 1943 Casablanca 会議／協議会, where Churchill and US 大統領 Franklin D. Roosevelt planned the 敗北・負かす of Nazi Germany. The two leaders visited Marrakech after the 会議／協議会 so that Churchill could show Roosevelt the city's beauty, before he gave the 絵 to the US 大統領 as a memento of the trip

Nick Orchard, 長，率いる of Modern British Art at Christie's, said: 'Christie's is delighted to 申し込む／申し出 such a 歴史的に 重要な 絵 as the 主要な 最高潮の場面 of the Modern British Art Evening Sale.?

'Tower of the Koutoubia イスラム教寺院 was created に引き続いて the Casablanca 会議／協議会 where it was agreed by the 連合した 軍隊s that only 完全にする 降伏する by the Axis 力／強力にするs would be 許容できる.?

'It is the only work that Churchill painted during the war, perhaps encouraged by the 最近の 進歩 made by the 同盟（する）s in what he considered to be one of the most beautiful countries he had 遭遇（する）d.?

'Tower of the Koutoubia イスラム教寺院 is therefore arguably the best 絵 by Winston Churchill 予定 to the significance of the 支配する 事柄 to him, and the fact that it 最高潮の場面s the importance of the friendship between the two leaders.?

'The gifting of the work to Roosevelt を強調するs the fact that Churchill held the American 大統領 in such high regard and points to their 共同の 成果／努力s in guiding the 連合した 力／強力にするs to the 結果 of the Second World War.'

Churchill was introduced to 絵 during a family holiday in June 1915 when his political career was at a low ebb.?

He continued this hobby into his old age, 絵 over 500 pictures of 支配するs such as his goldfish pond at Chartwell and the landscapes and buildings of Marrakesh.?

Churchill began 絵 scenes of Morocco after 存在 encouraged to visit the country by his 絵 教える, Sir John Lavery.?

Upon his first visit in 1935, he felt that the light and scenery were unrivalled, creating some 45 絵s of the country.??

On Roosevelt's death in 1945, 絵 passed to his son Elliot, who sold it in 1950 to a 私的な colle ctor. It was then sold to the 生産者 of a 1964 文書の on Churchill, called The Finest Hours.

Pitt and Jolie bought the work from a New Orleans antiques 売買業者 to 追加する to their £18million art collection in 2011, partly housed at their Ch?teau Miraval 住居 in フラン, before agreeing to 離婚 in 2016.

Prices for Churchill's 絵s have 増加するd recently, with some 専門家s 示唆するing his ?描写 by John Lithgow in the Netflix 攻撃する，衝突する series The 栄冠を与える may have 誘発するd その上の 利益／興味 in his 作品.

A 絵 of goldfish at his Chartwell home sold for £1.8million in 2014, while an oil and canvas 描写するing his favourite Johnnie Walker whiskey sold for £983,000 last year.