Artist hopes rare signed portrait of Churchill will fetch £1m at auction
05-05-2024 15:37 via theguardian.com

Artist hopes rare signed portrait of Churchill will fetch £1m at auction

The wartime PM was so taken with Paul Trevillion’s work that he arranged a meeting to pay his compliments in personAt the age of 90, and with a successful career as a sports artist under his belt, there is one work of which Paul Trevillion is particularly proud. Perhaps surprisingly, it isn’t among his portraits of legendary stars such as Sugar Ray Robinson, Pelé, Muhammad Ali, George Best, Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods.It is an image of another of Trevillion’s heroes:
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