A wartime photograph of the three Allied leaders at the Tehran Conference, signed by Winston S. Churchill in blue ink to the upper right. The image records the first meeting of the Big Three, Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Joseph Stalin, seated together on the portico of the Soviet Embassy in Tehran in late November 1943. A signed example of this subject unites the most consequential summit of the war with the signature of its central British figure.
The Tehran Conference, held between November 28 and December 1, 1943, under the codename Eureka, brought the three leaders together for the first time. Over four days, they settled on the strategy that would decide the course of the war, agreeing to open a second front in Western Europe through Operation Overlord, the cross-Channel invasion launched the following June, alongside a coordinated Soviet offensive in the east. Taken on the embassy portico with Stalin at the left in a marshal's uniform, Roosevelt at the center, and Churchill at the right, the photograph is among the defining images of the wartime alliance.
The photograph carries distinguished provenance. It was offered at Swann Galleries, New York, on October 24, 1985, sale no. 1383, lot 71, where it was purchased by Steve Forbes and entered the celebrated Forbes Collection, one of the most important private holdings of historical autograph and manuscript material assembled in the twentieth century.
The silver print is clear and well-contrasted, the signature bold and unfaded across the upper right, and the piece is cleanly presented in a black molding with a wide cream mount.
A wartime photograph of the three Allied leaders at the Tehran Conference, signed by Winston S. Churchill in blue ink to the upper right. The image records the first meeting of the Big Three, Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Joseph Stalin, seated together on the portico of the Soviet Embassy in Tehran in late November 1943. A signed example of this subject unites the most consequential summit of the war with the signature of its central British figure.
The Tehran Conference, held between November 28 and December 1, 1943, under the codename Eureka, brought the three leaders together for the first time. Over four days, they settled on the strategy that would decide the course of the war, agreeing to open a second front in Western Europe through Operation Overlord, the cross-Channel invasion launched the following June, alongside a coordinated Soviet offensive in the east. Taken on the embassy portico with Stalin at the left in a marshal's uniform, Roosevelt at the center, and Churchill at the right, the photograph is among the defining images of the wartime alliance.
The photograph carries distinguished provenance. It was offered at Swann Galleries, New York, on October 24, 1985, sale no. 1383, lot 71, where it was purchased by Steve Forbes and entered the celebrated Forbes Collection, one of the most important private holdings of historical autograph and manuscript material assembled in the twentieth century.
The silver print is clear and well-contrasted, the signature bold and unfaded across the upper right, and the piece is cleanly presented in a black molding with a wide cream mount.
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