PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE LATE PETER ADAM
KEITH VAUGHAN (BRITISH, 1912-1977)
Codford, Summer Landscape
titled and dated 'CODFORD 1942/SUMMER LANDSCAPE' and signed with estate stamp 'K.V' (verso)
sketchbook of fourteen ink drawings, each sheet signed with estate stamp 'K.V' (verso)
17 x 13 cm. (6 5/8 x 5 1/8 in.)

Provenance
The estate of Peter Adam (1929-2019), thence by family descent

Exhibited
Olympia, London, The Spring Fair: Loan Exhibition of paintings and drawings Keith Vaughan 1912-1977, 26 Feb-3 March 2002, (ill.col. p.15)


We are grateful to Gerard Hastings and Anthony Hepworth for their assistance in cataloguing this lot.

In 1919, at the tender age of seven, Vaughan was awarded a Royal Drawing Society certificate at school. In 1931 he began work as a layout artist and drawing became incorporated into his daily professional activities as a means of recording source material and familiarising himself with the object before him. During the war he maintained this creative routine despite army restrictions. Rationing meant materials were scarce and paper was rarely of high quality. Some war-time sketch pads measure only 15 x 10 centimetres and have decorative drawings and inscriptions inscribed on the covers. His essential aim as an artist was to capture the essence of a figure or the genius loci (spirit of place) of a specific landscape. The process began with a drawing where objects were summarised, reduced and reshaped into simple motifs. Vaughan cultivated a particular line to delineate the human form and suggest corporeal volume; it is serrated, almost nervous and made with jagged strokes. Sometimes drawings are accompanied by written notations indicative of colours or suggestive of mood.

We are grateful to Gerard Hastings for compiling this catalogue entry.