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For many years, the portrait had hung at the Fairmont Château Laurier ... The 1941 image by Armenian photographer Yousuf Karsh appeared on the cover of Life magazine and is now featured on ...
A substitute print of Yousuf Karsh’s 1941 portrait of Churchill, seen April 4, 2022. It was not discovered as a fake until August that year.
A portrait of Sir Winston Churchill hung on the walls of the famed Fairmont Chateau Laurier in Ottawa, Canada, ... so the hotel called photographer Yousuf Karsh's manager.
The theft of an iconic Churchill portrait by Yousuf Karsh went unnoticed for months. But two years later, the police have tracked down the photograph. By Ian Austen Like many people in Ottawa, I ...
Both Karsh and Winston had stayed at the hotel. Ottawa's CTV television reported Karsh and his wife lived in the hotel for two decades and even operated his studio in the hotel from 1972 to 1992 ...
Yousuf Karsh stands for a photo next to the “Roaring Lion” portrait during the preview of his 80th birthday exhibition at London’s Barbican Art Gallery. Photo: PA Images via Getty Images.
Fairmont Chateau Laurier General Manager Genevieve Dumas looks on as Ottawa Police Services Detective Akiva Gellar speaks about the stolen Yousuf Karsh portrait of Winston Churchill, during a news ...
Renowned photographer Yousuf Karsh snapped the iconic portrait in 1941 in the Speaker’s office just after Churchill delivered a rousing wartime address to Canadian lawmakers.
Armenian Canadian photographer Yousuf Karsh was known around the world for his portraits of celebrities, politicians and luminaries. And in 1953, he came to Newfoundland, where his intimate images ...
A celebrated portrait of Winston Churchill, stolen from an Ottawa hotel nearly two years ago, has been located in Italy. The photograph, a 1941 portrait by renowned photographer Yousuf Karsh, had ...
A celebrated portrait of Winston Churchill, stolen from an Ottawa hotel nearly two years ago, has been located in Italy. The photograph, a 1941 portrait by renowned photographer Yousuf Karsh, had ...