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.

Keith Vaughan Artworks

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Irish landscape, 1949

Keith Vaughan

Irish landscape, 1949

Sale Date: September 10, 2013

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Village, 1964

Keith Vaughan

Village, 1964

Sale Date: July 12, 2013

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Figures in a garden

Keith Vaughan

Figures in a garden

Sale Date: July 11, 2013

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Male nude, 1963

Keith Vaughan

Male nude, 1963

Sale Date: July 11, 2013

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Nude, draped, 1962

Keith Vaughan

Nude, draped, 1962

Sale Date: July 11, 2013

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Heath Landscape

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Heath Landscape

Sale Date: July 11, 2013

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Standing figure

Keith Vaughan

Standing figure

Sale Date: July 11, 2013

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Soldiers in a Bell Tent, 1942

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Soldiers in a Bell Tent, 1942

Sale Date: July 11, 2013

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The Wall at Ashton Gifford III, 1944

Keith Vaughan

The Wall at Ashton Gifford III, 1944

Sale Date: July 11, 2013

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Archers from the martyrdom of St. Sebastian, 1964

Keith Vaughan

Archers from the martyrdom of St. Sebastian, 1964

Sale Date: May 28, 2013

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Three figure Studies (3 works in 1 frame) (+ 2...

Keith Vaughan

Three figure Studies (3 works in 1 frame) (+ 2...

Sale Date: June 4, 2013

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Standing figures (2 works in 1 frame) (+...

Keith Vaughan

Standing figures (2 works in 1 frame) (+...

Sale Date: June 4, 2013

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Three Studies (3 works in 1 frame) (+ 2 others;...

Keith Vaughan

Three Studies (3 works in 1 frame) (+ 2 others;...

Sale Date: June 4, 2013

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Shore IV

Keith Vaughan

Sale Date: June 4, 2013

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Man with Pole

Keith Vaughan

Man with Pole

Sale Date: June 4, 2013

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Irish barn with peat stacks

Keith Vaughan

Irish barn with peat stacks

Sale Date: May 29, 2013

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Crowd addressed by a leader, 1965

Keith Vaughan

Crowd addressed by a leader, 1965

Sale Date: May 29, 2013

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Landscape with red markers, 1975

Keith Vaughan

Landscape with red markers, 1975

Sale Date: May 29, 2013

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Boy with an apple, 1945

Keith Vaughan

Boy with an apple, 1945

Sale Date: May 29, 2013

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Pickering Under Snow, 1945

Keith Vaughan

Pickering Under Snow, 1945

Sale Date: May 29, 2013

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Trees II (illustrated), Felled Trees I and..., 1940

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Trees II (illustrated), Felled Trees I and..., 1940

Sale Date: May 14, 2013

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Felled Tree Trunk; Houses in a Landscape;..., 1940

Keith Vaughan

Felled Tree Trunk; Houses in a Landscape;..., 1940

Sale Date: March 21, 2013

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Bather with Outstretched Arms, 1951

Keith Vaughan

Bather with Outstretched Arms, 1951

Sale Date: March 21, 2013

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Study for Interior at Locmariaquer

Keith Vaughan

Study for Interior at Locmariaquer

Sale Date: March 21, 2013

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