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A painting by Winston Churchill of a Moroccan sunset, a view he loved so much that he invited President Franklin D. Roosevelt has sold for $350,000.

Sunset Over the Atlas Mountains, a vibrant landscape painted in 1935 from Churchill’s balcony at the Mamounia Hotel in Marrakesh, had been expected to bring at least $600,000 at the Bonhams New York auction house on Wednesday. The company’s Web site announced the sale but didn’t say who bought the painting.

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