After an intensive restoration, a portrait of John Churchill, the first duke of Marlborough, will go on public display for ...

Hence that astonishing price, which also reflects the picture’s subsequent history: like many of his paintings, Churchill presented it as a gift, in this case to President Franklin D Roosevelt.

Christie’s Modern British and Irish Art Evening Sale achieved a total of £11,312,620/ $14,672,468/ €13,428,080, with sell-through rates of 96% by lot and 98% by value. Christie’s announced its March ...

Christie's held an auction for "The Bay of Eze," a painting by former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. With fees and all, the painting ended up selling for 945,000 pounds.

The sale, at a Sotheby's online auction of modern and post-war British art, was around five times above pre-sale estimates and among the highest ever reached under the hammer for a Churchill painting.

But whereas Mr. Roosevelt, like all great innovators, had a half-conscious premonitory awareness of the coming shape of society, not wholly unlike that of an artist, Mr. Churchill, for all his ...