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The Onassis Family Is Selling a Painting by Winston Churchill
It was gifted by the British prime minister to the Greek shipping tycoon in 1961.
Winston Churchill (center) And Aristotle Onassis (in sunglasses), in 1959.
Photographer: Keystone-France/Gamma-KeystoneAfter sitting in storage for decades, a painting by Winston Churchill is coming to auction at Phillips New York with an estimate of $1.5 million to $2 million.
The landscape, The Moat, Breccles, was painted by Churchill in 1921 and remained in his own collection for 40 years. “He didn’t like to give paintings away, or sell them,” says Jean-Paul Engelen, the deputy chairman and worldwide co-head of 20th century and contemporary art at Phillips.