Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) and Lady Clementine Churchill (1885-1977)

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Downing Street

Oscar Nemon was born in Osijek (today in Croatia), and began modelling in clay at the age of 14, after which he devoted himself to sculpture. In 1923 he lived in Vienna where he cast works at his uncle’s bronze foundry. He studied in Paris and at the Académie Royale des Beaux Arts, Brussels, and exhibited sculptures of notable figures in the 1930s. After moving to England, he settled in Oxford, and held his first exhibition in London in 1942. He became a British citizen, and received commissions for portraits of the Queen, Harold MacMillan, Sigmund Freud and other important 20th century figures. Nemon continued to work up to his death in 1985, and today many of his works can still be seen at his house and studio in Oxford.

People

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874 - 1965), Clementine Ogilvy (née Hozier), Baroness Spencer-Churchill Spencer-Churchill (1885 - 1977)

Places

Subjects

group portrait, man, woman, husband, wife, Leader of the Conservative Party, Leader of the House of Commons, Secretary of State for the Colonies, First Lord of the Admiralty, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Home Secretary, Member of Parliament, Prime Minister, Secretary of State for War, President of the Board of Trade, Minister of Defence, society hostess

Materials & Techniques

bronze, bronze sculpture

Artist

Oscar Nemon (1906 - 1985)

Title

Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) and Lady Clementine Churchill (1885-1977)

Date

Medium

Bronze sculpture

Acquisition

Presented by Trustees of the Churchill Statue Fund, March 1991

Inscription

verso: signed and inscribed No.10

Provenance

Presented for No.10 Downing Street by the Trustees of the Churchill Statue Fund in March 1991

GAC number

17063