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FOR PRESS P. M. No. 9/ 1966
BUST OF SIR Y; INSTON CHURCHILL
Statement by the Prime Minister. Sir Robert Menries
A bust of the late Right Honourable Sir 77inston
Churchill is to be displayed at Parliament House in Canberra
as a tribute to the great British statesman.
The Australian Government commissioned the work
from Oscar Nemon, the noted sculptor.
The bust, which is in bronze and slightly larger
than life size has been completed and it is hoped that it
will soon stana in King's Hall at Parliament House.
Her Majesty The Queen also commissioned a bust of
Sir ' iinston Churchill from Mr. Nemon and this is now at
Windsor Castle. However, the sculpture to be displayed in
Canberra would not be a replica of an existing work but has
been specially commissioned for Australia,
Ma-iy eminent people have sat for the 59-year-old
Yugoslavian-born sculptor. A:. ong them were Her Mijesty The
Queen, Mr. Harold Maclill~ n, Lord Boaverbrook, Sigmund Freud,
Sir Max Beerbohm, Lord Montgomery and President Eisenhower.
CANBERRA, 14th January, 1966.
BACKGROUND NOTE
Oscar i omon s born in 1906 in Yugoslavia. He
was educated in Oisjek, Brussel anLd Priz. He married
Patricia Villiers-Stuart in 1959 and has one son and two
daughters. Mr. Nemon has held exhibitions in the principal
capitals of Europe.