From the Feb. 2, 2021, CNN Style "Angelina Jolie is selling Winston Churchill's only painting created during World War II" by Rob Picheta.
The work is expected to sell for $3.4 million at auction.
Churchill painted "Tower of Koutoubia Mosque" in Marrakech, Morocco, after attending the Casablanca Conference in January 1943, during which he and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt formulated the next stage of their plans to defeat Hitler.
Churchill gave it to FDR as a gift and it ultimately found its way into Jolie's art collection in 2011.
The painting was made only after the two leaders agreed to accept only an "unconditional surrender" of Germany. Churchill had made several paintings of Morocco before the war, but this is the only one during it.
It will be sold by Christie's in London on March 1.
--Gregen
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