John Aldus obituary

Artist with a thought-provoking approach to what seemed familiar in Geneva and, for the last quarter-century, in LondonOn 31 January, the daily Tribune de Genève announced that four of Geneva’s best-known characters had suddenly been orphaned by the death of their maker, John Aldus, at the age of 81. These figures – a pair of art collectors, a poet and a pretty young woman, name unknown – were not actual Genevois but life-size, hyper-realist bronze sculptures of them, mi