MORE ON SCULPTOR OSCAR NEMON AND WINSTON CHURCHILL

Regarding Dick Johnson's earlier mention of sculptor Oscar Nemon, Jim Duncan of New Zealand writes:

Nemon wrote in 1953 that he considered Churchill "one of the most remarkable personalities of all time", having admired him throughout the war. The two men first met at the La Mamounia Hotel in Marrakech early in 1951. Born in Yugoslavia, Nemon had lived in Britain since the 1930's, but had lost almost all his family to the Holocaust, leading him to view Churchill with the depth of feeling which brings his portraits of the statesman so intensely to life.

Lady Churchill asked Nemon if she could keep the terracotta bust he made at La Mamounia because it "represents to me my husband as I see him and as I think of him." Shaped in Nemon's hotel room, it began a creative collaboration between the two men which made Nemon Churchill's choice of sculptor when Elizabeth II commissioned a bust of Sir Winston for Windsor Castle in 1952.

To read the complete article, see: Nemon and Churchill (oscarnemon.org.uk/history/churchill_hist.html)

To read the complete item description, see: 1969, Great Britain/U.S.A. 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF D-DAY. Engstrom 87B (prostores2.megawebservers.com/hedleybetts_com/Detail.bok?no=1744)

Wayne Homren, Editor

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