A painting by former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill is set to go up for auction next month.

According to AP, Christie’s auction house in London, UK said on Monday that the Moroccan landscape ‘Tower of the Koutoubia Mosque’ is being sold by Hollywood actor Angelina Jolie, in an auction on March 1. The painting, sold by the Jolie Family Collection as part of the Modern British Art Evening Sale, is estimated to fetch close to 1.5 million pounds to 2.5 million pounds. 

The image of the 12th-century mosque in Marrakech at sunset, the painting was a gift from Churchill to US President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Painted after the January 1943 Casablanca conference, it is the only painting that Churchill completed during World War II. 

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“Roosevelt was blown away by it (the region of Marrakech) and thought it was incredible,” Nick Orchard, head of Christie’s modern British art department, said to AP. He noted Churchill captured the landscape of the city in Morocco in the “wonderful, evocative painting” and gave it to Roosevelt as a memento of the trip the two took.

The painting was sold by Roosevelt’s son after the president’s death in 1945. After having several owners, Jolie and her partner Brad Pitt bought it in 2011.

The couple separated in 2016 and have since then been embroiled in divorce proceedings, with speculation abuzz about the division of their massive art collection. The two were finally declared divorced in 2019.

According to AP, Orchard said the auction house hoped the painting would set a new record for a Churchill work.

“The record price at auction for Churchill is about 1.8 million (pounds) for a painting that, in my view, is not as important as this,” he said, according to AP. “And I think this is probably his most important work.”