Winston Churchill’s Art and His Inspiration to Paint Winston Churchill’s Art has sold for record prices at auction. But what inspired the great man to paint? Paintings by Sir Winston Churchill have sold at Christie’s in London for record prices. One, Tower Of The Koutoubia Mosque, (seen above), owned by Angelina Jolie, sold to an unidentified buyer for £8.285m. The sale price was almost four times the upper pre-sale estimate and it also beat...