Winston Churchill: His Life as a Painter.

SOAMES, Mary [Winston S. Churchill].

Item Number: 139563

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1990.

First edition of the author’s affectionate and lively account of her father’s passion for painting. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated with 60 color plates and 4 black-and-white illustrations. Foreword by Derek Hill. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Front jacket design by Michaela Sullivan. Front jacket painting: ‘Green trees and poppies at Lullenden, 1917-19’ by Winston S. Churchill.

Winston Churchill did not begin to paint until he was forty - but from that moment painting became a passion that would live for the rest of his long life. The sixty paintings reproduced here in full color clearly show the vigor of Churchill's talent. His vibrant pictures of the South of France, of Marrakesh, of Blenheim, of his home, Chartwell, under snow, of magnolias and mallows, of the rivers and lakes, of his beloved wife, Clementine, demonstrate the real painterly quality of his work - and at the same time offer a fascinating commentary on his life.