![]() ![]() As David Coombs has stated, 'These Moroccan pictures are a reminder of his friendship with the painter Sir John Lavery, who had a house in Tangier'. He continued to paint in North Africa, particularly in Marrakech, whenever circumstances allowed. The sun is brilliant and warm but not scorching the air crisp, bracing but without being chilly the days bright, the nights cool and fresh'. He seemed captivated by Marrakech in particular, writing, 'Here in these spacious palm groves rising from the desert the traveller can be sure of perennial sunshine … and can contemplate with ceaseless satisfaction the stately and snow-clad panorama of the Atlas Mountains. Thereafter he wrote, 'Morocco was to me a revelation'. The painting captures one of his favourite views, a vista across the city of Marrakech as it rises towards the high peaks of the Atlas Mountains.Ĭhurchill began travelling to Marrakech during the late 1930s, following a winter stay in 1935-36. Yet, even in the midst of fighting against Nazi tyranny, he managed to devote a few hours to paint a single canvas, the present work, Tower of the Koutoubia Mosque. He stopped painting only once when he was forced to harness all of his energies on the office of wartime Prime Minister. His enthusiasm for his “paint box” was sustained throughout his life. Tower of the Koutoubia Mosque is commonly regarded as the most important painting by Sir Winston Churchill, with its story interwoven into the history of the twentieth century.Ĭhurchill began painting in 1915, aged 40, at a well-documented low point in his career. ![]() 'You cannot come all this way to North Africa without seeing Marrakech … I must be with you when you see the sun set on the Atlas Mountains' ![]()
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