Monday, August 5, 2019

Keith Vaughan (1912-1977) - Mortal Sorrows

Keith Vaughan
Figure Falling Forwards
1962-63
oil on canvas
Pallant House Gallery, Chichester

Keith Vaughan
Landscape with Figure
1959-60
oil on canvas
private collection

Keith Vaughan
Study for a Laocoön Group II 
1964
oil on panel
Leeds Art Gallery (Yorkshire)

Keith Vaughan
Study for a Laocoön VII
1964
oil on panel
Museums Sheffield (Yorkshire)

Laocoön

Here at the edge of night
New buds are cruel.
Each snake is scaled in light,
And every eye's a jewel.

White plunge of thoughtful rings;
What fangs engage
Are part the sea's wings
And part the sky's rage. 

Naked my casual seed
Is each a golden rose;
Whatever dead were freed,
What thought's repose

In my blood's flame,
The quiet body of a priest – 
The silence is the same,
The black marching of the east.

Lascivious as snow,
Time drank our sighs
And sealed a slow
Confusion of our eyes.

And I sustain
The darkness and its head
Irised and cold as rain.
I am so strong – or dead.

– David Lear (1935)

Keith Vaughan
Seated Figure
ca. 1971-72
oil on panel
Jerwood Collection, London

Keith Vaughan
The Bar II
1953
oil on canvas
private collection

Keith Vaughan
Still-Life with Pears
1951
oil on canvas
The Pier Arts Centre, Stromness, Orkney (Scotland)

Keith Vaughan
Still-Life with Skull and Pears
1951
drawing
Tate Gallery

Keith Vaughan
Still-Life with Skull and Coffee-Grinder on a Stool
1951
drawing
Tate Gallery

Keith Vaughan
Still-Life with Skull and Coffee-Grinder on a Stool
1951
drawing
Tate Gallery

Keith Vaughan
Industrial Landscape III - Morton Mill
1943
ink, watercolor and gouache on paper
Ingram Collection, London

Keith Vaughan
Rain on the Just and Unjust
1944
crayon, ink and gouache on paper
Ingram Collection, London

Keith Vaughan
The Trial
ca. 1949-59
oil on cardboard
Worthing Museum and Art Gallery (Sussex)

Keith Vaughan
Wrestlers
1964
oil on panel
private collection