Soldiers in a Bell Tent

细节

Keith Vaughan (1912-1977)
Soldiers in a Bell Tent
signed and dated 'Keith Vaughan/1942.' (lower right)
pencil, brown ink and wash
5¼ x 8½ in. (13.4 x 21.6 cm.)

来源

Anonymous sale; Christie's, South Kensington, 6 December 2007, lot 52, where purchased by the present owner.

注意事项

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

荣誉呈献

André Zlattinger

azlattinger@christies.com +44 (0)20 7389 2074

拍品专文

Vaughan spent the war as a non-combatant labourer in the Pioneer Corps. He was stationed first in Wiltshire, where he made the present work, then moved to Derbyshire and finally transferred to Eden Camp in Yorkshire. Despite the exhausting daily routine of road building, stacking corn and filling sandbags, a complete lack of privacy and being unable to find an adequate workspace, Vaughan nevertheless went on painting and drawing. Although he was never an official war artist, he was able to produce some remarkable wartime images, recording life in the army and the effects of the war. The War Artists' Advisory Committee purchased 12 of Vaughan's works, which are now housed in the Imperial War Museum (Under Canvas in Winter, 1942, A Barrack-room, 1942 and Echo of the Bombardment, 1942).

G.H.