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EventsPlease note, should the Britannia Bar not be available,
alternatively you can make use of the Cumberland Bar upstairs.
Dress code : Britannia Bar (downstairs): Smart casual
Cumberland Bar (upstairs): Lounge suit
Enclosed you will find the RABC's events calendar for 2008. Not only are the First Tuesday's Drinks popular for meeting members, new members and their friends and guests, but they are also an occasion to meet guest speakers from different interesting backgrounds. The First Tuesday's Drinks take place in an informal and relaxed atmosphere and have a great appeal to young and old. Why not contribute to this successful gathering by giving the Club your suggestions, thoughts and comments. They would be very welcome. We would like to thank all members who have joined us on the First Tuesday Drinks to make it such a great appeal.
Oscar Nemon was born in Osijek, now in Croatia, in 1906. From the age of fourteen his talent found expression in the sculptures and portraits which he exhibited while still at school. He set up a studio in Vienna, the capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. From Vienna, Nemon travelled to Brussels where he studied at the Académie Royal des Beaux Arts and continued to make a reputation for himself. Nemon spent some of these most productive years in Brussels.
Portraits of Sigmund Freud and many distinguished Belgians were exhibited in Nemon's first substantial exhibition at the Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels in 1932. This Lead to a decade which saw Nemon sharing a house with Magritte, and working on commissioned portraits of sitters such as King Albert I and Queen Astrid. There is a splendid bust of King Albert I on display in the lobby of the Belgian Embassy in London. The rise of fascism made it impossible for Nemon to remain in mainland Europe, and he moved to England in 1983. The greater part of his extended family was to perish in the Holocaust.
Nemon's post-war career is best known for a galaxy of distinguished sitters, including H M Queen Elizabeth II, Churchill, Eisenhower, Montgomery and Macmillan. Nemon died in 1985.
Lady Young's talk on Oscar Nemon Combines a remarkable sensitivity for the work of a major sculptor (who happened to be her father) and an acute understanding of the ways in which the turbulent history of the 20th century played itself out on an artist's career. No one could tell Nemon's story better, and it is a compelling story which deserves to be told.
The cost of 21£ per member and per guest includes refreshments (sandwiches and hot canapé, wine, soft, drinks, tea and coffee).
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