Finding Nemon

AURELIA YOUNG (Lady Young, b. 1943) is the daughter of Oscar Nemon. She grew up wandering in and out of her father's studios at the family home in Oxford and later in London. Since his death in 1985, she has been researching her father's life and gives talks about his life and work in the USA, Paris, Brussels, Israel and across the United Kingdom. She married George Young in 1964, an MP for forty-one years and now Lord Young of Cookham.

`A marvellous book by Aurelia Young on her late father, the sculptor and genius Oscar Nemon . . . Against the odds, being a Jewish refugee, Nemon’s journey brings you close to the people who shaped and impacted on the twentieth century.’ – Matthew Parris `Aurelia Young has learned a vast amount about her father . . . He remained elusively both outsider and insider, arguably a position occupied by many of the best artists but deeply painful at times.’ – Anne Sebba'When my words are forgotten I will be remembered as an excellent example of Nemon's middle period.' - Harold Macmillan 'During a lifetime that spanned most of the twentieth century Croatia-born Nemon, who fled to Britain before the Second World War, sculpted dukes, kings, queens, lords and field marshals . . . Politicians and war heroes were like putty in his presence.' - Daily Telegraph

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