| |
 |
 |
| Anatomy of an Art Purchase |
| As an investment, fine art is flying high. Anecdotal evidence suggests that some parts of the art market turned better profits than the Standard & Poor’s 500 last year. What’s more, unlike a stock certificate, you can hang a painting above the mantel and enjoy it for decades to come...more |
| |
| ART: A WINSTON CHURCHILL EXHIBITION |
| SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL made no great claims for his paintings, and he might even have been surprised to find them given a place of honor in an exhibition that begins today at the National Academy of Design. Room after room has been filled with his paintings, under the curatorship of his granddaughters Edwina and Celia Sandys...more |
| |
| Churchill oil sells for ￡612,800 |
LONDON A previously unknown painting by Sir Winston Churchill sold yesterday at Sotheby’s for a record ￡612,800, nearly three times its estimate.
View of Tinherir, an oil on canvas, was painted in one of Churchill’s favourite retreats, Marrakesh, in 1951. He gave it as a token of friendship to the American general George C. Marshall, the author of the Marshall Plan. Churchill called the general “the last great American” and “the true architect of victory”.
|
 |
| |
|
 |
|
|
|
