John Gilroy | Winston Churchill, together with typed letter signed from Clementine Churchill

John Gilroy

1898 –1985

Winston Churchill

71.5 by 52 cm.; 28 by 20½ in. (framed: 97 by 78 cm.; 38 by 31 in.), pen, ink and watercolour with gouache over pencil on artist’s board, signed "Gilroy" (lower right)

Acclaimed by Clementine Churchill as an "amusing - indeed brilliant - caricature of my husband".

PROVENANCE:

Donated by the artist to an auction to benefit "Red Cross Aid to Russia Fund", 12 September 1942; thence by family descent to the present owner