VAUGHAN, Keith

Keith Vaughan (1912 – 1977) has works held in the collections of the Government Art Collection, National Galleries Scotland, National Portrait Gallery, Tate and Victoria and Albert Museum. During the war Vaughan formed friendships with the painters Graham Sutherland and John Minton, with whom after demobilisation in 1946 he shared premises. Through these contacts he formed part of the neo-romantic circle of the immediate post-war period. However, Vaughan rapidly developed an idiosyncratic style which moved him away from the Neo-Romantics. Concentrating on studies of male figures, his works became increasingly abstract.

SEASON IN HELL (1949)

Eight lithographs originally published as book plates for a translation by Norman Cameron of Rimbaud’s epic poem A Season in Hell”. This edition was published by John Lehmann in 1948 and the prints were printed on wove paper by the Baynard Press.