Keith Vaughan, (British, 1912-1977)

Garden Motif

Garden Motif
signed four times with initials 'K.V.' (lower right of each drawing), titled and dated 'Garden motif/revised 12.vi.49' (lower right)
pencil on paper
29 x 23cm (11 7/16 x 9 1/16in).

Provenance
Dr Patrick Woodcock
With Osborne Samuel, London
With Gallery 27, London
Private Collection, U.K., by whom bequeathed to the present owner

Exhibited
London, Osborne Samuel, Keith Vaughan: Paintings and Drawings, 2007
London, Gallery 27, Keith Vaughan: Four Decades of Drawing, September 2010

This is one of several sheets of drawings exploring the theme of a 'Garden Motif', which Vaughan made in the summer of 1949. The pictorial ingredients of a figure in a landscape, accompanied by distant, architectural forms, had preoccupied him for some years. He wrote in his journal:

'The black & white theme and the garden motif, which returned quite suddenly after the absence of about a year almost, displacing the usual colour problem.' (Keith Vaughan, Journals, 25 June 1949).

We are grateful to Gerard Hastings, whose forthcoming book on Keith Vaughan's graphic work will be published by Pagham Press, for compiling this catalogue note.