The Big Three - Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin at the Yalta Conference, February 1945 (from an Illustration in Trud)
Russian School
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1945
Materials
Oil on canvas (?)
Measurements
1200 x 1500 mm
Place of origin
Russia
Order this imageCollection
Chartwell, Kent
NT 1102576
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, The Big Three - Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin at the Yalta Conference, February 1945 by an unkown Russian artist (T. Lelkov), 1945. Group portrait of all three seated, Churchill and Stalin wearing hats and army greatcoats. The Big Three first came together on 1st December 1943 in Tehran, Iran (Eureka) when they made a joint statemet: "We expressed our determination that our nations shall work together in war and in the peace that will follow. [...] We came here with hope and determination. We leave here, friends in fact, in spirit and in purpose." Further conferences between the so-called "grand alliance" took place in Yalta and Potsdam (when Truman replaced the late Roosevelt; Clement Attlee replaced Churchill as Prime Minister) in 1945 to co-ordinate progress of the war and its aftermath. This painting shows them sitting at Yalta, on the Black Sea, USSR conference which took place between February 4-11, 1945, and Churchill is wearing a Caucasian black fur hat.
Full description
frame has brass plaque - reads - To Clementine Churchill from citizens Rostov City/D April 1945
Provenance
Transferred by HM Treasury, 1968
Makers and roles
Russian School, artist T. Lelkov, artist