A-lister Angelina Jolie has sold a precious wartime artwork - by the hand of none other than British wartime Prime Minister, Sir Winston Churchill.
1943 work Tower Of The Koutoubia Mosque, thought to be Churchill's only painting during the war effort, sold for £8.2 million.
This soared above the previous record for a Churchill painting of £1.8 million, though its new owner has not been immediately identified.
Tower Of The Koutoubia Mosque was sold at Christie's Auction House, with a pre-sale estimate of £1.5 million to £2.5 million.
The artwork had been a gift from Churchill to US ally, President Franklin D Roosevelt, as a memento of their visit to the site during the Casablanca Conference of 1943.
It shows the 12 Century mosque, backed by the Atlas Mountains.
After Roosevelt's death in 1945, his son sold the artwork, coming into the possession of several owners before, in 2011, it caught the eye of Angelina and ex-husband Brad Pitt.
Churchill produced hundreds of canvasses during his lifetime, much of his work exhibited at the Royal Academy, and according to Christie's he painted around 45 of the Moroccan landscape after he was encouraged to visit the country by art tutor, Sir John Lavery.
Tower Of The Koutoubia Mosque is believed to be the only painting he produced between 1939 and 1945.
Angelina and Brad were revealed to be splitting in 2016.
They wed in 2014, having done the legal paperwork in California but the ceremony in France, during which Angelina wore her famous Versace dress.
