SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL (1874-1965)
Provenance
The Studio, ChartwellCelia Sandys
Private Collection, December 2007
Exhibition
London, M. Knoedler & Co. Ltd., Painting as a Pastime, May - June 1977, no. 46Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institute, Painting as a Pastime: The Paintings of Winston S. Churchill, September 21, 1983 – November 2, 1983
London, Sotheby’s, Painting as a Pastime, Winston Churchill – His Life as a Painter, January 1988, no. 99
Literature
Edwina Sandys, et al, Painting as a Pastime: The Paintings of Winston S. Churchill, Washington, D.C., 1983David Coomb...More...s and Minnie Churchill, Sir Winston Churchill: His Life and His Paintings, Lyme Regis, 2011, p. 217, no. C490, fig. 455
Paul Rafferty, Winston Churchill: Painting on the French Riviera, London, 2020, p. 80 (illustrated)
...LESS... Price1,500,000
The painting manipulates perspective and depth, a nod to the dramatic shifts of artists including Monet and Cézanne, who challenged traditional vantage points of landscapes. The portrait (i.e. vertical) orientation of the canvas combined with the trees, and the rhyming coastline channels the viewer’s gaze. The perceived tilting of the water's plane imbues the painting with dynamic tension.