PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE LATE PETER ADAM
KEITH VAUGHAN (BRITISH, 1912-1977)
Two Amulets
silver nickel alloy
7 cm. (2 3/4 in.) high
Executed circa 1976
(2)

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.

Vaughan’s Amulet Medallion is a stylised interpretation of a male figure with outstretched arms. Its imagery is in keeping with his oil painting of the late 1950s and early 1960s (see Bather 1958/9 and both Figure and Figure with Outstretched Arms, 1961). The thorax is reduced to as a series of formalised blocks and slabs of muscular matter while the head, arms and legs are abridged into simple, geometrical masses. Despite the miniature scale, the medallion still possesses dynamic force as limbs reach out to the edge of the relief surface and lock the form firmly into place.

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