SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL (1874-1965)
Provenance
The Studio, ChartwellBenjamin and Mary Rummerfield
Estate of Mary Rummerfield
Private Collection, by descent
Literature
D. Coombs and M. Churchill, Sir Winston Churchill: His Life and His Paintings, Lyme Regis, 2011, p. 28, no. C 111, fig. 32P. Rafferty, Winston Churchill: Painting on the French Riviera, London, 2020, p. 200, illustrated
Price525,000
Of his approximately 550 works, the largest portion (about 150) were of the South of France, where Churchill could indulge in both the array of colors to apply to his canvas and in gambling, given the proximity of Monte Carlo.