Keith Vaughan (1912-1977)

Vaughan taught on a part-time basis at the Slade School of Art from 1958 until his last year. One of his students in the late 1950s was Mario Dubsky (1939-85), who drew large charcoal figures as part of his student assignment. These intrigued and impressed Vaughan, inspiring him to produce about twenty large charcoals of his own, deriving from Dubsky, but strongly Vaughan's own. These are some of his finest and most elaborate drawings, and the present work is perhaps the most powerful of them all.

J.B.