Landscape with Tree Root

Details

Keith Vaughan (1912-1977)
Landscape with Tree Root
signed with initials 'KV' (on the reverse)
ink and wash
5 x 6½ in. (12.7 x 16.5 cm.)
Executed circa 1942.

Literature

M.Yorke, The Spirit of the Place. Nine Neo-Romantic Artists and their times, London, 1988, p. 273, illustrated.

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Lot Essay

In 1942 Vaughan was introduced to Graham Sutherland and 'after talking about art with the older man Vaughan would rush away to record every bit of the wisdom he had acquired in the pages of his journal ... [his] studies of Sutherland broadened his scope so that the notebooks now contained flower studies, roots, shell fragments and buildings on fire' (see M. Yorke, The Spirit of Place, London, 1988, p. 264).

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