New York: A painting by wartime British Prime Minister Winston Churchill that was gifted to Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis sold for $1.85 million (Dh6,795,420)at a Phillips auction in New York on Wednesday. 'The Moat, Breccles', a signed 1921 oil landscape, went for within its pre-sale estimate price of between $1.5 million and $2 million. The sale was far less than the $11.6 million netted by another Churchill painting sold by Angelina Jolie at Christie's last March. Despite failing to shatter records, the landscape which Churchill mentioned in a December 1921 essay titled ‘Painting as a Pastime’ - appealed to both history and celebrity buffs. Churchill kept the painting for 40 y
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