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Coloured bronze relief. The subject of 'Marion' was a neighbour of Nemon's in Boars Hill, Oxford, where he settled and established a studio in 1941. The woman's profile is modelled with strong lines, her face contrasting with the unusual blue patination of her hair and the background. Although a depiction of a real woman, the portrait also expresses the general sense of optimism and hope felt by Nemon in the later 1940s after escaping Nazi persecution in Europe. Oscar Nemon was born in Osijek, in modern Croatia. He demonstrated an early talent for drawing and devoted himself to sculpture from his mid teens. After working for a year at his uncle's bronze foundry in Vienna in the early 1920s, he studied in Paris and at the Académie Royale des Beaux Arts in Brussels. He moved to England before the outbreak of the Second World War and settled in Oxford, developing a reputation as a leading sculptor and receiving commissions from notable figures. His reliefs of the 1940s and 1950s reveal a more personal, intimate side to his work.
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