Winston Churchill Made a Painting and Gave It to FDR. Angelina Jolie Just Sold It for $11.6 Million at Christie’s
A painting by Winston Churchill from the collection of Hollywood star Angelina Jolie fetched $11.6 million at Christie’s surprisingly successful Modern British art evening sale yesterday, March 1.
The sale totaled £25.6 million ($35.8 million), selling 97 percent by lot and 99 percent by value. Final prices include premiums unless otherwise noted; presale estimates do not.
The evening was led by the British wartime prime minister’s Tower of the Koutoubia Mosque, which was painted as a gift for US president Franklin D. Roosevelt during World War II as a symbol of the special relationship between the two allied nations.
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | March 2, 2021 8:40 PM
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Here's the link to the article.
I first heard about it from #99 in the "Alec and Hilaria Baldwin have had a 6th kid...?" thread!
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | March 2, 2021 2:24 PM
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I guess the $11.6M will fund her team of divorce lawyers for another year.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | March 2, 2021 2:51 PM
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Brad Pitt bought it for something like $3 million and gave it as a gift to Jolie. I think he thought such an historical painting would stay in the family or at least in the US. It's a beautifuk painting.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | March 2, 2021 3:17 PM
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Finally! She'll be able to buy something to eat!
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | March 2, 2021 3:24 PM
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I'd literally just been wondering yesterday what Angie was doing for $$$ these days. She's in the new Marvel movie coming out, but it's an ensemble piece, so who knows how much she made. $11.6 on a painting will tide her over for awhile.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | March 2, 2021 3:24 PM
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So this viper snuck into the White House and stole this painting and then re-sold it? Brilliant
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | March 2, 2021 3:35 PM
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Shows ow hard up for cash the Roosevelts are these days though that they had to sell a gift from Churchill to FDR inn the first place.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | March 2, 2021 3:39 PM
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Looks like FDR's son sold it back in the 1960s to a Hollywood producer, so the family was hard up for cash a long time ago, it seems.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | March 2, 2021 3:58 PM
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According to the tabloids Brad pitt bought it for Angelina as a gift and she sold it so she can pay and win their custody wars. She wants full and for her kids to move to the Uk with her.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | March 2, 2021 6:57 PM
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Why is Angelina still pushing so hard on custody? Within a very few years, the kids will all be grown, anyway. Even at this point, the court would give the kids a say in which parent they lived with.
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | March 2, 2021 8:40 PM
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