Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie sold the painting of the Towers of the Kutubia Mosque "of the authorship of Winston Churchill at auction for 11.5 million dollars, or 8.28 million pounds sterling. Information about this appeared on the website of the Christie's Auction House.
The famous canvas was part of the overall collection of works of art Jolie and Pitt, which is estimated at about $ 25 million, and it appeared in the family in 2011, when the famous actor acquired it specifically for a spouse as a gift.
Initially, the work was estimated at 1.5-2.5 million pounds sterling, that is, about $ 2-3.4 million, which is the record for the webs of the former Prime Minister of Great Britain. The Towers of the Kutubia Mosque were written by Churchill in Morocco in 1943 after visiting the conference in Casablanca. According to official data, this is the only picture created by a politician during the Second World War. After the completion of the "Towers", Churchill presented it to the President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt, and after several resale she was in New Orleans, where he kept in the house of one of the families for more than 50 years. Who now purchased a picture of the famous actress is unknown.