"If it weren't for the painting, I couldn't live, I couldn't bear the weight of things."
For Churchill, the fact was understood long before art therapy became a popular concept. The "Old Lion" had found in oil painting a powerful diversion from his existential anxieties. According to Paul Rafferty, a specialist in Churchill's work, he painted no less than 600 paintings. Alas, very rarely signed, and even less dated. It is therefore a real treasure hunt that the Englishman engaged in to retrace the route of the politician on the Côte d'Azur, where he liked to put his easel, and which today gives rise to a beautiful book abundantly illustrated and prefaced by Prince Charles.
"What a man he was and what an eye he had!"
, writes Charles, not a little proud, who thinks he sees a little of our national Monet in the Winston which painted Antibes.
Let’s not get carried away.
Of course, Churchill knew how to handle the brush, but his landscapes remain wise.
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