Lane in Shere

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Foreign. Commonwealth & Development Office, Carlton Gardens

Keith Vaughan was born in Sussex in 1912. He was a self-taught artist whose first solo exhibition was in London in 1944. In the same decade he travelled to North Africa, Mexico and the USA, where he was resident artist at Iowa State University in 1959. He taught art at the Slade School of Art between 1959 and 1977 and was awarded a CBE in 1965. He had a retrospective at the Whitechapel Gallery, London in 1962 and represented Britain at the Sao Paolo Biennale a year later. Vaughan was diagnosed with cancer in 1975 and died by suicide in 1977. His reputation has continued to grow since his untimely death.

Places

England, Shere, Surrey

Subjects

topography, landscape C20th, tree, road, lane (as Subject), house, wall

Materials & Techniques

board, oil, oil painting

Artist

Keith Vaughan (1912 - 1977)

Title

Lane in Shere

Date

1935

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 45.50 cm, width: 55.00 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Sotheby's, 10 November 1976

Inscription

Signed, dated and inscribed on paper on verso.

Provenance

Sold through Sotheby's, London, 'Modern British Drawings, Paintings and Sculpture' sale, on 10 November 1976 (Lot 108); from which sale purchased by the Department of the Environment

GAC number

12553