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Description: | Bronze bust on marble base. Churchill first met Nemon in Morocco in 1951, the year in which he became Prime Minister for the second time. Two years later, Nemon was commissioned by Her Majesty the Queen to make a sculpture of Churchill for the Royal Collection, in honour of the statesman's impending eightieth year. Churchill sat to Nemon at Chartwell, Downing Street and Chequers; this bust was cast by Nemon's son in the late 1990s and was presented to the Government Art Collection in 2004. It captures Churchill's solemn determination, so iconic and familiar to a modern audience, yet also suggests his wisdom and humanity.
Oscar Nemon was born in Osijek, in modern Croatia. He demonstrated an early talent for drawing and devoted himself to sculpture from his mid teens. After working for a year at his uncle's bronze foundry in Vienna in the early 1920s, he studied in Paris and at the Académie Royale des Beaux Arts in Brussels. He moved to England before the outbreak of the Second World War and settled in Oxford, developing a reputation as a leading sculptor and receiving commissions from notable figures. | Rights holder: | © Estate of the Artist | Subjects: | Leader of the Conservative Party Prime Minister Secretary of State for the Colonies male portrait Chancellor of the Exchequer First Lord of the Admiralty Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill Secretary of State for War Home Secretary Leader of the House of Commons Member of Parliament Minister of Defence man President of the Board of Trade | Temporal: | plaster made 1956, cast 1990s; 1956/1999 | Source: | Government Art Collection | Creator: | Oscar Nemon | Identifier: | http://www.gac.culture.gov.uk/work.aspx?... | Go to resource |
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