Keith Vaughan

(British, 1912–1977)

Keith Vaughan was a British painter best known for his muted abstractions of male nudes, landscapes, and architecture. He meshed the technical practices of Paul Cézanne, Georges Braque, and Nicolas de Staël to create a unique aesthetic expression, as exemplified in Bather (1961). Vaughan was a self-taught painter and, according to the diaries he kept, perhaps used the medium as a means to cope with the frustrations of his unfulfilled homosexual fantasies. Born on August 23, 1912 in Selsey, United Kingdom, he worked in advertising until World War II, when he was forced to serve despite being a conscientious objector. In wartime, he befriended Graham Sutherland and John Minton, whom he lived with following the war’s end. Together, they represented part of the Neo-Romantic circle of the immediate postwar period, though Vaughan soon after gravitated towards abstraction. The artist went on to teach in London at the Camberwell College of Arts, the Central School of Art, and the Slade School. Vaughan’s troubled, personal journals extensively recorded his life and internal struggles, and were published in part in 1966, and more completely in 1989—years after his death by intentional overdose on November 4, 1977. Vaughan’s works are in the collections of the Tate Gallery in London, the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh, and the Manchester Art Gallery, among others.

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Page of Studies, 1949

Keith Vaughan

Page of Studies, 1949

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Five Figure Studies, 1948

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Five Figure Studies, 1948

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Figure and Trees III

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Figure and Trees III

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Seated male nude; Figure in profile, 1949

Sale Date: March 21, 2018

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Sick Parade

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Figures and Trees

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Figures and Trees

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Castle on the Moors

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Castle on the Moors

Sale Date: March 21, 2018

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EROTIC FANTASIES, 1940

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EROTIC FANTASIES, 1940

Sale Date: February 15, 2018

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Two nudes, 1936

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Two nudes, 1936

Sale Date: February 7, 2018

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Birds in romantic landscape

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Birds in romantic landscape

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Three drawings

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Three drawings

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Male Figure, 1975

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Male Figure, 1975

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Male Nude

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The Walled Garden

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The Walled Garden

Sale Date: November 29, 2017

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The Return of the Prodigal Son, 1950

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The Return of the Prodigal Son, 1950

Sale Date: November 22, 2017

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THE FOREST, 1955

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THE FOREST, 1955

Sale Date: November 22, 2017

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STUDY FOR AT THE BEGINNING OF TIME / THESEUS

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STUDY FOR AT THE BEGINNING OF TIME / THESEUS

Sale Date: November 22, 2017

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Study for September II; Group of four small..., 1955

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Study for September II; Group of four small..., 1955

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Beach scene; Boy and Apple Tree

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Beach scene; Boy and Apple Tree

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Two figures undressing II; Two figures in a...

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Two figures undressing II; Two figures in a...

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Two figure studies; Two standing figures in..., 1948

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Two figure studies; Two standing figures in..., 1948

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Nuer; Nude on a bed

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Nuer; Nude on a bed

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Male Nude by Table, 1947

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Male Nude by Table, 1947

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April is the Cruelest Month, Illustration for...

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April is the Cruelest Month, Illustration for...

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