Sir Winston Spencer Churchill, O.M., Hon. R.A. (1874-1965)

Lake Carezza in the Dolomites

Details

Sir Winston Spencer Churchill, O.M., Hon. R.A. (1874-1965)
Lake Carezza in the Dolomites
signed with initials 'W.S.C.' (lower left)
oil on canvas
15 x 21½ in. (38.1 x 54.6 cm.)
Painted in 1949

Provenance

Anon. sale; Christie's, 13 July 1973, lot 283, where purchased by the present owner.

Lot Essay

Churchill went with Lady Churchill to stay in a hotel at Lake Garda during the summer of 1949. They stayed for about a week moving onto
Lake Carezza which he found 'much cooler and most paintable scenery'.
(see M. Soames, Winston Churchill His Life as a Painter, London, 1990, p.168).

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