Oscar Nemon with his bust of Winston Churchill and Churchill’s bust of Nemon (Churchill’s only work of sculpture). © Falcon Stuart.

This event is organised as part of the Fred Kormis: Sculpting the Twentieth Century event series. Visit the exhibition page to find out more.

In partnership with Insiders/Outsiders.

Aurelia Young will trace Oscar Nemon’s (1906-1985) dramatic journey across Europe from his home in Croatia to seek refuge from the Nazis in England in the 1930s.

Nemon had to live with the knowledge that his mother had been murdered in the Holocaust and with his rejection by the  parents of his English wife on the grounds that he was a penniless Jew.

Amongst Nemon’s many famous sitters were Sigmund Freud, Winston Churchill, Queen Elizabeth II, Margaret Thatcher, the Israeli diplomat Abba Eban, Prof Sir Ernst Chain and Princess Diana.

About the speaker:

Aurelia Young grew up in Oxford running in and out of her father’s studio. She has spent the last twenty years researching the life of her remarkable enigmatic father and has co-authored a biography of him ‘Finding Nemon’. She is married to the politician, Lord Young of Cookham.

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