Winston Churchill, 1941

Provenance:
Mirvish Gallery, Toronto

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Private Collection, Toronto

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Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto

Literature:
Yousuf Karsh, Portraits of Greatness, 1959, reproduced page 45

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Yousuf Karsh, In Search of Greatness, 1962, reproduced page 20

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Yousuf Karsh, A Fifty-Year Retrospective, 1983, reproduced page 38

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Yousuf Karsh, Dieter Vorsteher et al, Yousuf Karsh: Heroes of Light and Shadow, 2001, reproduced page 47

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Yousuf Karsh and Jerry Field, Karsh: A Biography in Images, 2003, reproduced page 71

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Yousuf Karsh and David Travis, Yousuf Karsh: Regarding Heroes, 2009, reproduced page 21 and 53

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Yousuf Karsh and David Travis, Karsh: Beyond the Camera, 2012, reproduced page 25 and front cover
Notes:
On December 30, 1941, following Winston Churchill’s address to the Canadian Parliament in Ottawa, Yousuf Karsh was given a two-minute window to take Churchill’s photograph. Churchill left the House of Commons Chamber and marched into the anteroom where his portrait was to be taken. Karsh describes how Churchill’s expression was perfect for the photograph, except for the cigar dangling from his mouth. Karsh spontaneously pulled the cigar from Churchill’s lips, which only strengthened Churchill’s grimace; in that moment Karsh captured this image, which is regarded as one of his most iconic works. The gravitas of Churchill’s personality was immortalized in this photograph. Recently, The Bank of England chose this photograph of Churchill to appear on the front of its all-new polymer banknote, which is now in circulation across the United Kingdom.

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This work was printed circa 1955. This work is mounted to a board which measures 22 x 15 ¾ inches.

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Please note: this work is unframed.

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