This painting, just sold at Christie's in London, practically gushes provenance. Borrowed from the French, the word serves the art world as a posh term for "a record of ownership of a work of art or an antique, used as a guide to authenticity or quality."
Though this artist wasn't a big name in the art world, he was a big name. Winston Churchill painted Tower of the Koutoubia Mosque after the 1943 Casablanca Conference and gave it to Franklin D. Roosevelt. In 2011 Brad Pitt bought the painting from a dealer and gave it to the seller, Angelina Jolie.
Expected to sell for perhaps $3 million, the only painting Churchill created during WWII sold for almost four times as much: $11.5 million.
World War II history, Churchill and Roosevelt, Hollywood stars …what more could the unidentified buyer ask?
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