Christie's. Churchill painting

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The first post-war painting of Churchill put up for sale
The first picture, written by Winston Churchill after the Second World War, put up for auction.

Landscape titled "Villa on the River Nivelle" British Prime Minister wrote in July 1945, during a little "vacation" - July 5, elections were held in Britain, which announced the results of 26 numbers. At this time, Churchill was staying with his wife at the Canadian General Raymond Bryutinelya in France.

Churchill touched a brush since 1939, painting a picture of his wife persuaded the British consul in Bordeaux, which is a professional artist.

Churchill's work will be put up for auction at Christie's in London on May 26. Pre landscape was valued at 300,000 pounds.

Picture of Churchill, who began to paint only 40 years old, highly sought after in auctions. In 2006, his landscape "view of Tinherir" was sold for 1.12 million dollars, and in 2007 the painting, on which Churchill painted his home Chartwell, sold for nearly $ 2 million.

In an interview in 1946, British Prime Minister said that there is another such area, except for painting, in which he would have felt so natural. In addition to painting, Churchill was engaged in literature, one of his most famous works is considered a historic six-volume The Second World War. " In 1953 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature