gifted to Jolie by her estranged husband Pitt, who bought it for $2.95 million in 2011 from a New Orleans antique dealer, M.S.
Rau, we previously revealed.Reports on Monday said that the 1943 Churchill painting, “Tower of the Koutoubia Mosque,” sold for a record-breaking $11.5 million to a mystery Belgian bidder at Christie’s “Modern British Art Evening Sale” auction in London.
The same bidder also bought two more Churchill works in the sale, the Art Newspaper reported. The painting — which shattered its estimate of $3.4 million — was sold via the Jolie Family Collection.
Reps have not commented on why the movie star was selling off the gift from her ex. Jolie and Pitt’s divorce has been dragging on for years, ever since they announced.
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