Sir Winston Churchill is most famous for his role as the prime minister of United Kingdom during World War 2. But he also dabbled in painting. One of his landscape works, painted in 1946, is up for auction at Sotheby's. Link:

Sir Winston Churchill, HON. R.A. - Inland View from Choisy, Switzerland

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Painting details

Despite his political life and significant literary commitments, Churchill was an inveterate traveler and would take his paints, brushes and easels wherever he went, from trips abroad, to visits with friends around Britain. For Churchill, painting required a set of precise yet intuitive skills that exercised a totally different part of his mind from that used for the cut and thrust of national politics. It was the challenge and difficulty of capturing satisfactorily the scene before him that proved such a tonic to his mind.

Painted in 1946, the present work depicts the view of the rolling hills from the Villa Choisi on the banks of Lac Léman. Arranged by a group of private Siss individuals, that August Churchill spent a holiday in the villa, which was owned by the banker M. Alfred Kern. Churchill spent the holiday in his ideal manner, producing a series of paintings including a still life which he later gifted to Madame Kern, a landscape which is now in the Studio at Chartwell, as well as the present work.

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