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

Keith Vaughan (1,812 results)

Central School students (3 studies in 1 frame), 1950

Keith Vaughan

Central School students (3 studies in 1 frame), 1950

Sale Date: May 23, 2006

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Landscape (+ 2 others; 3 works)

Keith Vaughan

Landscape (+ 2 others; 3 works)

Sale Date: May 25, 2006

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Standing male nude

Keith Vaughan

Standing male nude

Sale Date: May 17, 2006

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In the latrines

Keith Vaughan

In the latrines

Sale Date: May 17, 2006

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Iowa City (+ Untitled; 2 works), 1959

Keith Vaughan

Iowa City (+ Untitled; 2 works), 1959

Sale Date: April 30, 2006

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The old seaweed hoist, 1953

Keith Vaughan

The old seaweed hoist, 1953

Sale Date: March 27, 2006

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Bather climbing rocks, 1958

Keith Vaughan

Bather climbing rocks, 1958

Sale Date: March 28, 2006

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Seated model, Slade study 23, 1963

Keith Vaughan

Seated model, Slade study 23, 1963

Sale Date: March 28, 2006

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Standing and seated nudes (+ 4 others; 5 works)

Keith Vaughan

Standing and seated nudes (+ 4 others; 5 works)

Sale Date: March 21, 2006

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Landscape

Keith Vaughan

Sale Date: March 14, 2006

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Kite flyers, 1945

Keith Vaughan

Kite flyers, 1945

Sale Date: March 14, 2006

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Figure with horse (+ Still life; 2 works)

Keith Vaughan

Figure with horse (+ Still life; 2 works)

Sale Date: March 1, 2006

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Figures in a room

Keith Vaughan

Figures in a room

Sale Date: March 1, 2006

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Head of a man (+ Tree and buildings; 2 works)

Keith Vaughan

Head of a man (+ Tree and buildings; 2 works)

Sale Date: March 1, 2006

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Reading, 1941

Keith Vaughan

Reading, 1941

Sale Date: February 21, 2006

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Shepherd and flock, 1944

Keith Vaughan

Shepherd and flock, 1944

Sale Date: May 18, 2004

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Standing male nude, 1962

Keith Vaughan

Standing male nude, 1962

Sale Date: November 29, 2005

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Landscape with two figures, 1955

Keith Vaughan

Landscape with two figures, 1955

Sale Date: November 23, 2005

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Landscape with figures, 1965

Keith Vaughan

Landscape with figures, 1965

Sale Date: November 23, 2005

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Two male nudes (+ 3 others; 4 works)

Keith Vaughan

Two male nudes (+ 3 others; 4 works)

Sale Date: November 23, 2005

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Figures in an interior seated around a table, 1951

Keith Vaughan

Figures in an interior seated around a table, 1951

Sale Date: November 18, 2005

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Winter fields, 1961

Keith Vaughan

Winter fields, 1961

Sale Date: September 23, 2005

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Oyster fisherman II, 1948

Keith Vaughan

Oyster fisherman II, 1948

Sale Date: September 23, 2005

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Two figures by a sea wall, 1948

Keith Vaughan

Two figures by a sea wall, 1948

Sale Date: September 23, 2005

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