Landscape painted by Churchill, which was gifted to Roosevelt, up for auction

A 1943 landscape painted by Winston Churchill and which the wartime British prime minister gifted to US President Franklin D. Roosevelt is expected to fetch up to $3.5 million when it is sold at auction next month. Churchill wartime painting gift to Roosevelt up for auction Churchill painted "Tower of the Koutoubia Mosque" in Marrakech following the January 1943 Casablanca Conference, which both leaders attended. "Churchill painted nothing in the Second World War except this one painting," Nicholas Orchard, head of the Modern British Art department at Christie's, told Reuters. "The record for a painting at auction is 1.8 million pounds, and likely interested buyers will probably come from the U.K. and the United States," Orchard said.