Boy

Details

Keith Vaughan (1912-1977)
Boy
signed with initials 'K.V.' (on the reverse)
ink on paper
7 7/8 x 5 ½ in. (20 x 14 cm.)
Executed circa 1950.

Provenance

with Agnew & Sons, London.
Professor J. Ball.
with Anthony Hepworth, Bath, where purchased by the family of the present owner in September 1997.

Special notice

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.

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Lot Essay

The present work represents a boy selling roasted chestnuts. At that time Vaughan produced a series of topographical drawings of the market at Covent Garden, depicting the people there, including fruit sellers. These were made for the first edition of Opera magazine which came out that year.

We are very grateful to Gerard Hastings for preparing this catalogue entry, whose new book on Keith Vaughan’s graphic art is to be published soon by Pagham Press in Association with the Keith Vaughan Society.

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