PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE LATE PETER ADAM
KEITH VAUGHAN (BRITISH, 1912-1977)
Sketchbook
dated '1951' (front cover)
sketchbook of seven pencil drawings, each stamped with estate stamp 'K.V.' (verso)
28 x 21.5 cm. (11 x 8 1/2 in.)

Provenance
The artist, from whom acquired by
Peter Adam (1929-2019), thence by family descent

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

During the early 1950s, drawing became an essential ingredient in Vaughan’s creative life. He drew still-life subjects and life-drawings, designs for magazines and book illustrations and made presentation or ‘table drawings.’ Drawing provided the raw material for his painting and he made many drawing trips to the south coast, the landscapes of Yorkshire, Berkshire, Ireland and France to gather material. In 1963 he exhibited drawings at the Biennale in Sao Paolo and three further drawing exhibitions took place between 1967 and 1969 in London and Manchester. By now he had accumulated a wide vocabulary of graphic marks including novel ways to shade, hatch and delineate form. He wrote in his journal 6^th January 1964:

"There must be some way of using the brush and colour with the same spontaneity as the pencil. I should have found this out by now. What a difference it would make if painting just went along, with the same total involvement as drawing.’

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