Keith Vaughan British, 1912-1977
Standing Male Figure, c.1941/42

£4,750

Pen and ink on paper
19cm × 13cm (37.5cm × 30cm framed)

Vaughan was a British artist, whose work is held in the collections of the Government Art Collection, National Galleries Scotland, National Portrait Gallery, Tate and Victoria and Albert Museum in the UK. In the 1940s, with his friend John Minton, he was one of the leading exponents of Neo-Romanticism, characteristic works of this time being coloured drawings of moonlit houses. His later work, in which he concentrated on his favourite theme of the male nude in a landscape setting, became grander and more simplified, moving towards abstraction. The authenticity of this work was previously confirmed by Professor John Ball, with the date of the work kindly confirmed by Gerard Hastings.