Actress Angelina Jolie will sell in March a frame that former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill painted as regal to the President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt, announcing this Monday at the Christie’s House in London.
Considering the unique work that the ‘Premier’ completed during the Second World War, the painting will be posted to the best poster with an estimated price of between 1.5 million and 2.5 million books (between 1.7 million and 2.8 million euros / between 2 million and 3.4 million dollars).
The team, which withdrew a mezquita from Sail XII and a Moroccan solstice, was a Churchill and Roosevelt regal across the 1943 Casablanca Conference, giving the strategy for advancing to Nazi Germany.
During the event, the British leader invited his North American homologue to pass by Marrakech to showcase the visions of the city and the light of day, a scene that impressed Roosevelt that Churchill decided to immortalize as recorded by the conference.
After the death of the President of the United States, in 1945, the work lasted for decades by various proprietors has been in the hands of the couple who formed Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt.
When separated, the painting is cut in the limbo in the speculation about the part of the extensive collection of art that atesoraba the matrimony.
Ahora, Jolie Family Collection will sell the paisajistica work, boothed as “Tower of the Koutoubia Mosque” (“Tower of the Mezquita Koutoubia”), as part of a substandard of modern British art in Christie on March 1st.
“[El cuadro] “It is possible that Winston Churchill’s most important painting debated the importance of the subject and raised the volume of love between the two letters,” said Christie’s representative Nick Orchard in a statement.
Churchill empezó to recreate scenes of Marruecos from 1935, when his tutor, John Lavery, went to visit the country.
The frame that subassembles Jolie, one of the mediocre ones that Churchill dedicates to Marruecos, aspires to unleash one of the most high prices for the paintings of the ‘premier’ in a subasta, indicates the note.
It will not be the first Moroccan vista, Churchill’s regal has a staggering lead, which will be sold: in 2007 the “Marrakech” landscape was sold, following President Harry S. Truman, with a salary cap of between 431,000 and 720,000 euros ( between 521,294 and 871,000 dollars).