Keith Vaughan (1912-1977)

Keith Vaughan made drawings throughout his life and his main subject was the male nude in both action and repose. The act of drawing assisted him in distilling the human form down to its essential components. He accumulated a wide vocabulary of graphic marks including novel ways to shade, hatch and delineate form. Some drawings from the 1960s have a feather-light sensitivity in both subject and execution; others are more aggressively forged with dense graphite surfaces built up in webs and meshes of cross-hatchings.

We are very grateful to Gerard Hastings for his assistance in cataloguing the present lot and lot 424. His book Keith Vaughan: The Photographs, is due to be published in June by Pagham Press.