Keith Vaughan
Spring Trees
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March 14, 11:22 AM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Keith Vaughan
1912 - 1977
Spring Trees
signed Vaughan (lower right), titled and dated 1955 (on label attached to the backboard)
oil on board
unframed: 23 by 37.5cm.; 9 by 14¾in.
framed: 29 by 44cm.; 11½ by 17¼in.
Executed in 1955.
We are grateful to Gerard Hastings, whose forthcoming book on the Artist is to be published shortly, for his kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present lot.
Matthiesen Ltd., London
Sale, Sotheby's London, 22 July 1986, lot 388
Private Collection, U.K.
Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London
Private Collection, U.K.
London, Leicester Galleries, Keith Vaughan: New Paintings, 1956 no. 9
New York, Durlacher Bros., Keith Vaughan: Paintings and Gouaches, 1957, no. 20
State University of Iowa, Keith Vaughan, Paintings and Gouaches, 1959
London, Matthiesen Ltd., Keith Vaughan, 25 February - 19 March 1960, no. 4
In the early 1950s Vaughan became increasingly aware of the importance of the painted surface as an expressive pictorial element. This manifested itself in a more painterly application with varied, directional brushstrokes and richer, more eloquent build-ups of pigment. His reduced, economical palette of slatey greys and sap greens evokes a feeling of early springtime, before the first sprouting of forest foliage. Jagged forms suggest agricultural fencing while vertical and curved forms describe tree boughs and banks of shrubbery.
Gerard Hastings.
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