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Winston ChurchillOranges and Lemons1958
1958
About the Item
"Oranges and Lemons" is an oil on canvas work by Winston Churchill, painted in 1958. The artwork size is 20 x 24 inches. The framed size is 26 3/4 x 30 5/8 x 2 3/8 inches.
Still lifes like Oranges and Lemons (C 455) give us an insight to the rich and colorful life of Churchill, just as his landscapes and seascapes do. Churchill painted Oranges and Lemons at La Pausa. Churchill would often frequent La Pausa as the guest of his literary agent, Emery Reves and his wife, Wendy. Reves purchased the home from Coco Chanel. While other members of the Churchill family did not share his enthusiasm, Churchill and his daughter Sarah loved the place, which Churchill affectionately called “LaPausaland”.
To avoid painting outside on a chilly January morning, Wendy Reves arranged the fruit for Churchill to paint. Surrounded by the Reves’s superb collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works, including a number of paintings by Paul Cézanne, Oranges and Lemons illuminates Churchill’s relationships and the influence of Cézanne, who he admired. The painting, like Churchill, has lived a colorful life, exhibited at both the 1959 Royal Academy of Art exhibition of his paintings and the 1965 New York World’s Fair.
Provenance:
Mrs. Diana Sandys
Celia Sandys
Private Collection, December 2007
Exhibition:
London, Royal Academy, Paintings by the Rt. Hon. Sir Winston Churchill, K.G. O.M., C.H., M.P., Hon. R.A., 1959 (exhibition not numbered)
New York, New York World’s Fair, April - October 1965 (catalogue not traced)
Literature:
M. Soames, Winston Churchill: His Life as a Painter, London, 1990, p. 205, no. 60 (illustrated)
D. Coombs and M. Churchill, Sir Winston Churchill: His Life and His Paintings, Lyme Regis, 2011, p. 233, no. C 455, fig. 493
P. Rafferty, Winston Churchill: Painting on the French Riviera, London, 2020, p. 102 (illustrated)
- Creator:Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965, British)
- Creation Year:1958
- Dimensions:Height: 20 in (50.8 cm)Width: 24 in (60.96 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Palm Desert, CA
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