Ten years to research, sculptor Oscar Nemon’s daughter Aurelia Young will launch Finding Nemon at the Nemon Museum on Boars Hill – where he sculpted for forty years. The biography, which tells the story of Nemon’s private and public lives, took Aurelia all over the world. Trailing her father, she travelled from North […]
Upcoming talks – Saxmundham and Cambridge
In case you can’t make October’s talk at the Freud Museum in London, here are details on two more talks by Nemon’s daughter, Lady Aurelia Young. The first is on 1 October at Saxmundham, Suffolk, and is organised by the Aldeburgh bookshop. Lady Young will be presenting the book at […]
Upcoming Talk – 16 October – Freud Museum London
Oscar Nemon’s daughter, Lady Aurelia Young, will be giving an illustrated talk at the Freud Museum in London, at 6:30pm on the 16th October. The talk is entitled ‘Freud’s Sculptor: The Life and Works of Oscar Nemon’. Tickets are available for £11 (£9 concessions) and can be booked here: https://www.freud.org.uk/event/freuds-sculptor-the-life-and-works-of-oscar-nemon/. The […]
Oscar Nemon Bronze Freud for Vienna
Nearly eighty years after Sigmund Freud left Vienna for the last time in 1938, to seek refuge in London, fund-raising is underway for an Austrian partner to the bronze seated figure of Freud in Hampstead. The statue will be sited in a garden space at Vienna Medical University, where Freud […]
Oscar Nemon Bust of Sir Winston Churchill presented to John Major by the International Churchill Society
The Sir Winston Churchill Award 2017 was presented to The Rt Hon Sir John Major KG CH. The dinner is a celebration of the charitable work of The International Churchill Society (UK) and was attended by members of the Churchill family, the Trustees and Patrons of the Society and their guests, and […]
Public Open Days Nemon Studio September 2017
The Nemon Studio and Archive will be open for guided visits on Saturday 16 September between 3-5pm. Alice, Oscar Nemon’s daughter-in-law will be guiding visits and offering teas which can be taken in the garden. Friendly dogs on leads and well-behaved children are very welcome. Please email if you require […]
Meeting my future father-in-law, Oscar Nemon.
I first met Oscar Nemon in 1981 when my boyfriend, Nemon’s son Falcon, took me to the studio near Oxford where his father had worked and lived from the 1940s. We drove from London, passing the Cowley car works, which in the 1980s stretched either side of the ring road, […]
New site design
Welcome to the new redesigned site for the Estate of Oscar Nemon. We’ve moved to WordPress so as to improve the design and make it easier to post regular updates.
Croatian Ambassador’s Nemon visit and gift
The departing Croatian Ambassador, Ivan Grdešić, and his wife Elena, were guests at Pleasant Land Studios before receiving a Nemon maquette at an event organised by the Anglo-Croatian Society. On 11 June, the ambassador and his wife joined a group from Maidenhead Synagogue on a tour of Pleasant Land Studios – […]
Dalibor Prančević visits Pleasant Land
The Croatian art critic and academic, Dalibor Prančević, recently visited Pleasant Land Studios with Daniel Zec. Dalibor records his visit (with pictures) on the CROSCULPTURE project website: “This was a great opportunity for disseminating information about the project and for getting acquainted with the space in which this great artist lived and worked. […]