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Sir Alan Bowness CBE (11 January 1928 – 1 March 2021) British art historian, art critic, director of the Tate Gallery between 1980 and 1988 has died age 93.
Bowness was active as an art critic in the late 1950s and early 1960s, writing for The Observer, Arts (New York), Art News and Review, The Times Literary Supplement, and The Burlington Magazine. He became a Regional Art Officer for the Arts Council in 1956, with responsibilities for the South West of England. In April that year, he visited St Ives, Cornwall, where he met artists who had settled there, including; Barbara Hepworth, Ben Nicholson, Peter Lanyon, and Patrick Heron. In 1957, Bowness married Sarah Hepworth-Nicholson, daughter of Barbara Hepworth and Ben Nicholson.
February 19, 2021 Share
1943 wartime landscape painting of Winston Churchill, British prime minister, gifted it to U.S President Franklin D. Roosevelt, is likely to fetch up to $3.5 million at an auction next month.
Churchill painted the “Tower of the Koutoubia Mosque” in Marrakech following the January 1943 Casablanca Conference, which both the leaders attended. Churchill then took Roosevelt to Marrakech to view the sunset over the Atlas Mountains.
Winston Churchill painted the painting for Roosevelt. The painting not only implies their friendship but also reflects special affiliation between Britain and America. The other factor is that Churchill regarded his North African view better than all his other paintings.
By Reuters Staff
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LONDON (Reuters) - A 1943 landscape painted by Winston Churchill and which the wartime British prime minister gifted to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt is expected to fetch up to $3.5 million when it is sold at auction next month.
Churchill painted “Tower of the Koutoubia Mosque” in Marrakech following the January 1943 Casablanca Conference, which both leaders attended. Churchill then took Roosevelt to Marrakech to see the sun set over the Atlas mountains.
The work is to be sold from Hollywood actor Angelina Jolie’s Jolie Family Collection, with an estimated price tag of 1.5 million pounds - 2.5 million pounds ($2.08 million - $3.47 million).