{"id":803,"date":"2021-06-07T08:34:50","date_gmt":"2021-06-07T00:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/?p=803"},"modified":"2021-06-07T08:35:08","modified_gmt":"2021-06-07T00:35:08","slug":"onassis-family-to-sell-winston-churchill-painting-at-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/latest-news\/onassis-family-to-sell-winston-churchill-painting-at-auction\/","title":{"rendered":"Onassis Family to Sell Winston Churchill Painting at Auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An oil painting by\u00a0<a id=\"auto-tag_winston-churchill\" href=\"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/\" data-tag=\"winston-churchill\">Winston Churchill<\/a>\u00a0made in 1921 that was long thought to be lost is now coming to auction. Five decades ago, the statesman originally gifted it to Greek shipping magnate and Jackie Kennedy\u2019s second husband, Aristotle Onassis, who displayed it on his yacht known as the\u00a0<em>Christina.<\/em>\u00a0The heirs of Onassis will now part ways with the work at a Phillips modern and contemporary art evening sale on June 23 in New York, where the painting, titled\u00a0<em>The Moat, Breccles<\/em>, is expected to fetch $1.5 million\u2013$2 million.<\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 2\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>Churchill and Onassis met through the statesman\u2019s son, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/\">Randolph<\/a>, and forged a years-long friendship. The shipping magnate was one of several high-profile friends to whom the politician gave his still life and landscape paintings. Churchill first mentioned\u00a0<em>The Moat, Breccles<\/em>\u00a0in his essay \u201cPainting as a Pastime,\u201d published in the<em>\u00a0Strand Magazine\u00a0<\/em>in December 1921.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, Churchill paintings have seen success on the market. In Christie\u2019s British modern art sale held in London this March, one buyer purchased three paintings by the former Prime Minister for a total of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AtelierAuctionsg\">\u00a311.2 million ($16 million)<\/a>. Among those works was a painting of a North African mosque that was being sold by Angelina Jolie that sold for a triple-estimate \u00a38.3 million ($11.6 million), setting a record. Churchill\u2019s previous record was the $2.7 million paid in 2014 at Sotheby\u2019s London for\u00a0<em>The Goldfish Pool at Chartwell<\/em>\u00a0(1932).<\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 3\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>To promote\u00a0<em>The Moat, Breccles<\/em>, Phillips plans to display it alongside a replica of Onassis\u2019s yacht bar, which was frequented by high society guests such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AtelierAuctionsg\">John D. Rockefeller<\/a>, Eva Peron, Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, and Marilyn Monroe. The installation will open on June 15 at the auction house\u2019s new Park Avenue headquarters.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source\uff1ahttps:\/\/www.artnews.com\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An oil painting by\u00a0Winston Churchill\u00a0made in 1921 that was long thought to be lost is now coming to auction. Five decades ago, the statesman originally gifted it to Greek shipping magnate and Jackie Kennedy\u2019s second husband, Aristotle Onassis, who displayed it on his yacht known as the\u00a0Christina.\u00a0The heirs of Onassis will now part ways with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13,7,4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-803","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artist","8":"category-auction","9":"category-events","10":"category-gallery","11":"category-latest-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Onassis Family to Sell Winston Churchill Painting at Auction - Investable Art Auctioneer<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"An oil painting by Winston Churchill made in 1921 that was long thought to be lost is now coming to auction.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/latest-news\/onassis-family-to-sell-winston-churchill-painting-at-auction\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Onassis Family to Sell Winston Churchill Painting at Auction - 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