Original Vintage 20th C. Signed Ltd. Edition (2/10) Colin Webster-Watson Bronze Sculpture of an Acrobat, 1993

Description

Colin Webster-Watson (New Zealand, 1926 – 2007)
Untitled, 1993
Bronze
Signed
Numbered 2/10
Dimensions: Acrobat apprx. 21" H ; trapeze … more Colin Webster-Watson (New Zealand, 1926 – 2007)
Untitled, 1993
Bronze
Signed
Numbered 2/10
Dimensions: Acrobat apprx. 21" H ; trapeze apprx. 7"; total H when hung apprx. 28"
Includes gallery catalog with artist information.

This bronze depicts a trapeze artist hanging by the chin from the trapeze.It is broken where the figure’s mouth connects to the bar and needs to be resoldered and hung or mounted on a base. The nylon strands for hanging are present. It is signed, dated and numbered on the leg.

Colin Webster-Watson (6 May 1926, Palmerston North, New Zealand – 25 September 2007, Eastbourne) was a New Zealand sculptor and poet.

At the age of twenty, he traveled to Japan with the Commonwealth Occupation Force. While in Japan, his army superiors deemed that he would be better employed as an entertainer than a soldier, and gave him the responsibility to organise concerts for the troops.

In 1954, Webster-Watson moved to London to become a dancer and comedian at the Windmill Theatre. For a time, he also worked as a radio sports reporter in Wales.

Following the death of his father in 1960, Webster-Watson suffered a breakdown and moved to Italy. It was while running an orphanage in Alberobello that he discovered his love of sculpture and soon after established a studio in Rome. His patrons during this time included Gloria Swanson, Carroll Baker, Morris West, Robert Ardrey, Harold Robbins and Henry Rothschild. His work also graced the collection of Jacqueline Kennedy and Aristotle Onassis.

In 1990, he moved to Palm Springs, California, where he lived until 2004 when he returned to New Zealand; he died in 2007 less