Pick of the Week: Eyewitness view of Dunkirk evacuation

It may be strange and surreal, but John Spencer-Churchill’s (1909-92) landscape panorama of the evacuation of Dunkirk is the only depiction of the event known to have been painted by an eyewitness.

When it went under the hammer at Lindsay Burns (20% buyer’s premium) in Perth on December 6 with a…

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