His hands on his hips, about to stride forwards, Oscar Nemon's 1970 bronze of Sir Winston Churchill stands at the heart of British democracy - in the Members' Lobby of the House of Commons. It is a fitting place for the work of the twentieth century's most distinguished portrait sculptor, and a man who earned Churchill's respect as well as his friendship.
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.
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