CHURCHILL, Winston S.
Painting As A Pastime.
First Edition of Painting As A Pastime; inscribed by Winston Churchill
London: Oldham Press Limited/Ernest Benn Limited, 1949.
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First edition of this collection of Churchill's brilliant essays on hobbies and painting. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece, illustrated with eighteen reproductions of Churchill's paintings in full color. Presentation copy, inscribed by Churchill on the front free endpaper, "To Anita from Winston S. Churchill 1949 Queen Mary." Near fine in the original dust jacket which is in very good condition. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Rare and desirable signed.
Churchill was a prolific and skilled painter, finding solace in the hobby that he described as "...a friend who makes no undue demands, excites to no exhausting pursuits, keeps faithful pace even with feeble steps, and holds her canvas as a screen between us and the envious eyes of Time or the surly advance of Decrepitude." This volume contains eighteen reproductions in full color of many of his most moving landscapes painted on Lake Como, near the Mediterranean sea, and outside of Monte Carlo.
Painting As A Pastime.
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