Lot Essay
This work is one of a series of six gouaches based on Rimbaud's 'Les Illuminations'
VARIOUS PROPERTIES
Keith Vaughan (1912-1977)
Details
Keith Vaughan (1912-1977)
Les Illuminations de Rimbaud: Being Beauteous
signed lower right Keith Vaughan, inscribed lower left on the mount Devant une neige un Être de Beauté de haute Taille, inscribed again on the reverse Les Illuminations - "Being Beauteous", gouache and coloured crayon
21 x 16½in. (53.3 x 41.8cm.)
Executed in 1975
Les Illuminations de Rimbaud: Being Beauteous
signed lower right Keith Vaughan, inscribed lower left on the mount Devant une neige un Être de Beauté de haute Taille, inscribed again on the reverse Les Illuminations - "Being Beauteous", gouache and coloured crayon
21 x 16½in. (53.3 x 41.8cm.)
Executed in 1975
Provenance
Waddington Galleries, London
Dr. Alastair Hunter
with Thos. Agnew & Sons Ltd., London
Dr. Alastair Hunter
with Thos. Agnew & Sons Ltd., London
Literature
M. Yorke, Keith Vaughan His Life and Work, London, 1990, pp.262, 264 (illustrated)
Exhibited
London, Thos. Agnew & Sons Ltd., Keith Vaughan 1912-1977, Nov.-Dec. 1990, no.63