KEITH VAUGHAN | LANDSCAPE WITH RECLINING FIGURES

KEITH VAUGHAN
1912-1977
LANDSCAPE WITH RECLINING FIGURES

signed and dated 65
gouache and wash on paper
13 by 20cm.; 5 by 7½in.

Condition Report:
The sheet is attached to the edges with adhesive tabs to the corners and a tab to the centres of the left and upper edges. The upper, left and right edges are cut neatly. There is extremely minor rounding to the extreme corners. The sheet undulates. There are tiny instances of retilculation to the paint above the white central figure and to the right of the right brown figure, with one or two possible further instances. There a few tiny possible rubs to the sheet. There is light dust and a few tiny specks of surface matter and studio detritus to the sheet. There may be some very minor time staining to the sheet. This excepting, the work appears to be in very good overall condition.

The work is floated in a window mount and presented in a painted wooden frame under glass.

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Provenance:
Bear Lane Gallery, Oxford

Alistair Howe Esq

Sale, Christie's London, 7th June 2001, lot 59, where acquired by the present owner