A stunning emblem of the celebrated friendship between British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill and Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis, The Moat, Breccles will be offered in the Phillips Contemporary & 20th Century Art Evening Sale on June 23, 2021, estimated at $1.500.000-2.000.000.
On January 16, 1956, the two were introduced by Churchill's son Randolph at a dinner held at the home of Emery and Wendy Reves in La Pausa, France. Onassis soon invited Churchill to dine on the Christina in early February and two days after the event he enthused Clementine: “We had dinner with the Onassises on their yacht two nights ago. He is an extraordinary man. He wanted to lend us the yacht to go to Ceylon! She is the most beautiful structure he has ever seen afloat."
Christina's fame and allure as the original "superyacht" is due to illustrious and glamorous guests such as Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Marilyn Monroe, Frank Sinatra and John F Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy, later Jackie Onassis, whom she first met Churchill vault on the Cristina.
