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Lot Essay
Vaughan made a series of studies in his wartime sketchbooks of felled trees. Some of these are highly detailed as if in preparation for a painting. The boughs and branches of the trees, of these war drawings, frequently resemble limbs of figures and it was his intention that the chopped and felled trunks were to parallel fallen soldiers on the battlefield.
Landscape preoccupied Vaughan throughout his career and, on a visit to Berwickshire in 1952, he made a series of pen and ink studies of landscape forms. These drawings were made ‘in situ’, as was his habit while collecting material to use in paintings. The main forms are drawn in with pen, while the tonal areas are supplied brush washes of diluted Indian ink. Once back in his studio, such studies were used to create compositions for paintings.
We are very grateful to Gerard Hastings for his assistance in cataloguing the present lot and lot 41. He is currently curating an exhibition of the work of Prunella Clough and Keith Vaughan, which opens in April.
Landscape preoccupied Vaughan throughout his career and, on a visit to Berwickshire in 1952, he made a series of pen and ink studies of landscape forms. These drawings were made ‘in situ’, as was his habit while collecting material to use in paintings. The main forms are drawn in with pen, while the tonal areas are supplied brush washes of diluted Indian ink. Once back in his studio, such studies were used to create compositions for paintings.
We are very grateful to Gerard Hastings for his assistance in cataloguing the present lot and lot 41. He is currently curating an exhibition of the work of Prunella Clough and Keith Vaughan, which opens in April.