Winston Churchill in a portrait by Yousuf Karsh

The photograph shows Winston Churchill in one of the most famous portraits by Yousuf Karsh. Yousuf Karsh was an Armenian photographer whose work became one of the foundations of the visual memory of the 20th century. The world's most influential figures stood before his camera.

Churchill wears a dark suit and a polka-dot bow tie, with a white handkerchief in his breast pocket. One hand rests on a chair, the other on his hip. Behind him is a wood-panelled wall.

Karsh's art did not simply record faces; it revealed strength, character and the psychological tension of the time.