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Sutherland Portrait Winston Churchill. KDS Photo, National Portrait Gallery London, pencil drawing by Graham Sutherland, "Sir Winston In the event, Sutherland did produce a relatively complete study. The 1,000 guineas fee (approximate value of $35,000 in 2015) for the painting was funded by donations from members of the House of Commons and House of Lords, and was presented to Churchill by both Houses of Parliament at a public ceremony in Westminster Hall on his 80th birthday on 30.

Portrait of Winston Churchill (1954) by Graham Sutherland The Portrait of Winston Churchill was a painting by English artist Graham Sutherland that depicted the British prime minister Sir Winston Churchill, created in 1954 It portrayed the PM hunched with age and dark in mood.

In Defense of Graham Sutherland and his "Infamous" Churhcill Portrait

It was Sutherland's custom to prepare detailed, almost independent 'finished' works, close-up studies of the heads of his sitters. He suggested posing in his Garter robes, but the Gift Committee instructions precluded that When Rudi expressed his distress over the destruction of the Churchill portrait, Sutherland said that, quite apart from the vandalism of the act, it was a viola­tion of an agreement that the portrait, after the death of Sir Winston and Lady Churchill, should be returned to Parlia­ment.

NPG 5332; Winston Churchill Large Image National Portrait Gallery. Sir Winston Churchill speaking in Westminster Hall, on his 80th birthday; in the background is the oil portrait of Sir Winston by Graham Sutherland (30 November 1954) Q Recently on BBC Radio 4, antiquarian book dealer Rick Gekoski spoke of the Sutherland portrait of Churchill, commissioned by Parliament as a tribute on his 80th birthday in 1954, saying it was destroyed by his wife because she hated it so much

Portrait de Winston Churchill, 1954 Graham Sutherland. This surviving painting is rich in historical and artistic significance and now comes. When Rudi expressed his distress over the destruction of the Churchill portrait, Sutherland said that, quite apart from the vandalism of the act, it was a viola­tion of an agreement that the portrait, after the death of Sir Winston and Lady Churchill, should be returned to Parlia­ment.