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Coloured bronze relief. The sensuous lines of the female nude, reclining by the side of water, complement those of the horses grazing in the background. While mourning the death of his mother and brother at Auschwitz in the 1940s, Nemon recounted that this pastoral scene referred to the folk tales he remembered from happier childhood days. The blue patination recalls the colours of the Adriatic. 'Danica' was first created in plaster and stored in Nemon's studio, before being cast in 2003. Oscar Nemon was born in Osijek, in modern Croatia, and developed an early talent for drawing and sculpture. After working 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 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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