Angelina Jolie to sell Winston Churchill’s only World War II painting. Angelina Jolie is selling the only painting created by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill during World War II, with the work expected to fetch up to £2.5 million ($3.4 million) at auction. Churchill painted “Tower of the Koutoubia Mosque” in Marrakech, Morocco, after attending the Casablanca Conference in January 1943, during which he and US President Franklin D. Roosevelt formulated the next stage of their strategy to defeat Nazi Germany. Churchill gave the painting to Roosevelt, and it ultimately found its way into Jolie’s own collection of artworks. The actress is putting the piece up for sale, with the estimate on its price ranging from £1.5 million to £2.5 million ($2 million to $3.4 million). “It is the only work that Churchill painted during the war, perhaps encouraged by the recent progress made by the Allies in what he considered to be one of the most beautiful countries he had encountered,” Nick Orchard, head of modern British art at auction house Christie’s, said in a statement.
