Charlie Chaplin returns to Vevey

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Zeitschrift: The Swiss observer : the journal of the Federation of Swiss Societies in the UK

Band (Jahr): - (1982)

Heft 1788

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Persistenter Link: http://doi.org/10.5169/seals-686458

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IN a unique tribute to the man memorial which now stands in who was the greatest comedian London's Leicester Square. the world has ever known, a life His appreciation of bronze as a sized bronze statue of Charlie medium owes much to his Chaplin is to be erected on the familiarity and involvement with quayside of Vevey - near where the process of casting. He does he spent the latter part of his life. most of his work at his studio Chaplin made his home at the near Maldon in Essex, from Manoir de Ban in the little where the completed originals village of Corsier, and knew well - are taken to London to be cast and loved passionately - the under his supervision. whole of the vineyard-encrusted The Vevey bronze, says John Montreux-Vevey region that lies Doubleday, will be a version of on the sun-drenched northern the Leicester Square work, but shore of the lake of Geneva. there will be differences to take The proposal for the statue account of the lakeside situation. came from the Swiss National Because it is to be mounted at Tourist Office whose president, ground level, people will be able Mr Jean-Jacques Cevey, is to walk right up to it, perhaps to himself the mayor of Montreux, have their photographs taken where Chaplin was a frequent next to the screen legend, and visitor. this introduces a new dimension The statue, which will be un- into the work. veiled in August, is the work of an Although John Doubleday has English sculptor, John Double- day, who created a similar Turn to Page 14

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Chaplin returns From Page 13 produced copies of some of his statues in the past, this is the first time that he has produced a second version of the same sub- ject. And he has found the experience an interesting one. "It certainly has not been boring," he says. "Working on the same subject has given me the opportunity to look at the piece afresh. After a couple of years, different things occur to one. The first piece is produced purely as a reaction to the subject. Then time goes by and when one returns to it reactions have settled a little. WHEN young John Double- smith's School of Art from coastal Essex - Swit- Perhaps the new approach is day visited Paris after leaving followed, and while he was zerland. more mature." school he had his first real there he won a competition His family began to holi- John Doubleday's work has encounter with the to produce a piece of sculp- day and ski in Switzerland been widely acclaimed. One of sculptures that were to help ture for the Glossop Centre before the First World War, the most recent was for the decide his future career. in Derbyshire and had exhibi- visiting Grindelwald and Harvard Medical Centre in He spent a great deal of tions at the Waterhouse Château-d'Oex. Young John Boston, USA. But the most time drawing the work of the Gallery in London. Doubleday was the third ardent fans of his latest statue are post-Rodin sculptors, Miallol From that point his repu- generation of the family to very close to home. His three and Despiau, and later, the tation has grown to one of establish a close rela- young sons, aged seven, six and Swiss Giacometti. international proportions, tionship with the country, four, have been particularly in- On his return to England mainly through his remark- and by the time he reached terested in the Chaplin study. he worked for a while in able sculpted portraits. adulthood he knew the area "They have, of course, seen Cumberland but spent his Today John Doubleday around Vevey very well. Chaplin films on television," he spare time drawing and lives near Maldon in Essex, This resulted in portrait says, "and it is the first time that I painting at Carlisle Art not far from where he was commissions from the Thorn have worked on something which School. It was here that he born in 1947. It is a part of family of Montreux, which in has really captured their imagina- was encouraged to take England he loves dearly. But turn led to other private tion." formal art school training. he is also enthusiastic about work. He spent a lot of time The whole family will be visit- Three years at the Gold- another place, far removed in the area while completing ing Vevey in August to be present at the unveiling ceremony. 14