Fake or Fortune?
Mystery of Sir Winston Churchill's paintings finally solved | By Dalya Alberge, The Telegraph
Art detectives on the BBC's Fake or Fortune? television series tried in vain in 2015 to prove that a painting of a sun-drenched village scene on the French Riviera was by Sir Winston Churchill.
But experts on the wartime leader rejected the attribution, partly because there was not enough documentary evidence.
Now British artist Paul Rafferty has uncovered a "smoking gun", a thumbnail photograph of that very painting - the fountain of St-Paul-de-Vence - at Chartwell, Churchill's family home in Kent.
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September 20, 2020