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Property from the Family of Sir Winston Churchill

Sir Winston Spencer Churchill

Mallows

Auction Closed

June 29, 02:19 PM GMT

Estimate

300,000 - 500,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Family of Sir Winston Churchill


Sir Winston Spencer Churchill

1874 - 1965

Mallows


signed WSC (lower left)

oil on canvas

unframed: 61 by 51cm.; 24 by 20in.

framed: 69 by 59cm.; 27¼ by 23¼in.

Executed circa 1930s. 


We are grateful to Barry Phipps for his kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work.

Lady Spencer Churchill, by whom gifted to the present owner
Kansas City, The Nelson Gallery, Winston Churchill the Painter, 1958, with tour to Detroit; New York; Washington; Providence; Dallas; Minneapolis; Los Angeles; Toronto; Montreal; Fredericton; Vancouver; Canberra; Sydney; Brisbane; Melbourne; Hobart; Adelaide and Perth;
London, Royal Academy of Arts Diploma Gallery, Winston Churchill Honorary Academician Extraordinary, 1959
London, Sotheby's, Painting as a Pastime, Winston Churchill - His Life as a Painter, January 1998, no. 42, illustrated in the catalogue p. 113 (as Mallows in a Vase, Chartwell)
Winston Churchill, Painting as a Pastime, Odhams Press Ltd., London, 1948, illustrated fig. 1 (as A Vase of Flowers)
Mary Soames, Winston Churchill: His Life as a Painter, Collins, London, 1990, illustrated no. 34, p. 106 (as Mallows in a Vase, Chartwell)
David Coombs, Churchill – His Paintings, Hamish Hamilton, London, 1967, no. 178, illustrated p. 147 
David Coombs and Minnie Churchill, Sir Winston Churchill: His Life and His Paintings, Ware House Publishing, Lyme Regis, 2011, no. C178, illustrated fig. 267