Keith Vaughan (1912-1977)

Name: Two seated figures
Brand: Keith Vaughan (1912-1977)
Price: 4000.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

Price Realised GBP 5,000

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GBP 1,500 - GBP 2,500

Closed: 13 Dec 2016

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Two seated figures

Keith Vaughan (1912-1977)

Price Realised GBP 5,000

Closed: 13 Dec 2016

Price Realised GBP 5,000

Closed: 13 Dec 2016

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Keith Vaughan (1912-1977)
Two seated figures
dated 'XII/51' (lower right)
pencil, unframed
9¾ x 14⅛ in. (24.8 x 36 cm.)

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Lot Essay

The male nude was at the very centre of Vaughan’s creative output; it preoccupied him for nearly fifty years. He painted it countless times and also made drawings, lithographs, illustrations and even a handful of sculptures where the nude male dominates the compositions. Here, two typically Vaughanesque figures (small-headed, thick-limbed, outwardly-gazing), recline on a kitchen table, their poses echoing and rhyming with each other.

During the early 1950s, it was Vaughan’s working habit to make a series of pencil and gouaches studies ahead of committing his forms to canvas in oil paint. The present work is one such study, though only the right figure relates to a known painting, 1951 (see A. Hepworth and I. Massey,, , Bristol, 2012, p. 74).

We are grateful to Gerard Hastings for compiling the note for this lot, and those for lots 47 and 67; his new book, , is to be published in the Spring of 2017, by Pagham Press (www.thekeithvaughansociety.com).