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Lost painting by Sir Winston Churchill from the Onassis Family Collection to be offered at Phillips
Sir Winston L.S. Churchill, The Moat, Breccles, Painted circa August 1921. Estimate: $1,500,000-2,000,000. Image courtesy of Phillips.
NEW YORK, NY
.- An extraordinary emblem of the celebrated friendship between British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill and Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, The Moat, Breccles will be offered in Phillips 20th Century and Contemporary Art Evening Sale on 23 June 2021, estimated at $1.5-2 million. Painted in August 1921, the painting by Churchill was gifted to Aristotle Onassis in 1961, and hung in the saloon of the Onassis yacht, the Christina.
Hung in Pride of Place on the Onassis Yacht the
Christina, the First Super Yacht
An extraordinary emblem of the celebrated friendship between British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill and Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis,
The Moat, Breccles will be offered in Phillips’ 20th Century and Contemporary Art Evening Sale on June 23, 2021, estimated at $1.5-2 million. Painted in August 1921,
the painting by Churchill was gifted to Aristotle Onassis in 1961, and hung in the saloon of the Onassis yacht, the
Christina.
Jean-Paul Engelen, Deputy Chairman and Worldwide Co-Head of 20th Century & Contemporary Art, said, “Two of the most influential figures of the 20th century, Churchill and Onassis formed a remarkable friendship, which Churchill sought to honor by gifting a work that he treasured in his own private collection for forty years. Long thought to have been lost,