Sotheby’s to offer Sutherland study for ‘loathed’ Churchill portrait

Sotheby’s will offer one of the most complete surviving studies of Sir Winston Churchill by Graham Sutherland (1903-80). It was painted in preparation for the famous final portrait – a work which the sitter violently loathed and was later destroyed.

It is estimated at £500,000-800,000 and will appear at Sotheby’s Modern British and Irish art evenin…

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