Signed Vivienne studio portrait of Churchill on mount

Churchill, Winston Spencer, British statesman (1874-1965). Photographic half-length portrait, signed ("Winston Churchill, 1953").

€ 7.500,00

Half-length studio portrait by the society photographer Vivienne (Florence Vivienne Mellish), here in a vintage gelatin silver print retaining the studio credit on the image and bearing Churchill’s autograph on the mount, dated 1953.

A sought-after postwar presentation format associated with Churchill’s practice of signing mounted Vivienne prints for admirers and official gifts. The date coincides with Churchill’s receipt of the Nobel Prize in Literature, lending additional resonance to this dignified likeness from his second premiership.

Framed and preserved on the original mount, the photograph embodies the mid-century public image of Churchill disseminated through Vivienne’s widely reproduced sittings.