SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL (1874-1965)
Provenance
Mrs. Diana SandysCelia Sandys
Private Collection, December 2007
Exhibition
London, Royal Academy, Paintings by the Rt. Hon. Sir Winston Churchill, K.G. O.M., C.H., M.P., Hon. R.A., 1959 (exhibition not numbered)New York, New York World’s Fair, April - October 1965 (catalogue not traced)
Literature
M. Soames, Winston Churchill: His Life as a Painter, London, 1990, p. 205, no. 60 (illustrated)D. Coombs and M. Churchill, Sir Winston Churchill: His Life and His Paintings, Lyme Regis, 2011, p. 233, no. C 455, fig. 493
P. Rafferty, Wins...More...ton Churchill: Painting on the French Riviera, London, 2020, p. 102 (illustrated)
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To avoid painting outside on a chilly January morning, Wendy Reves arranged the fruit for Churchill to paint. Surrounded by the Reves’s superb collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works, including a number of paintings by Paul Cézanne, Oranges and Lemons illuminates Churchill’s relationships and the influence of Cézanne, who he admired. The painting, like Churchill, has lived a colorful life, exhibited at both the 1959 Royal Academy of Art exhibition of his paintings and the 1965 New York World’s Fair.