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Born in Selsey, Vaughan attended Christ's Hospital school. He worked in an advertising agency until the war, when as an intending conscientious objector he joined the St John Ambulance; in 1941 he was conscripted into the Non-Combatant Corps. Vaughan was self-taught as an artist. His first exhibitions took place during the war. In 1942 he was stationed at Ashton Gifford near Codford in Wiltshire, and paintings from this time include The Wall at Ashton Gifford (Manchester Art Gallery).
Also during the war Vaughan formed friendships with the painters Graham Sutherland and John Minton, with whom after demobilization in 1946 he shared premises. Through these contacts he formed part of the neo-romantic circle of the immediate post-war period. However, Vaughan rapidly developed an idiosyncratic style which moved him away from the Neo-Romantics. Concentrating on studies of male figures, his works became increasingly abstract.
Vaughan worked as an art teacher at the Camberwell College of Arts, the Central School of Art and later at the Slade School.
Vaughan is also known for his journals, selections from which were published in 1966 and more extensively in 1989, after his death. A gay man troubled by his sexuality, he is known largely through those journals. He was diagnosed with cancer in 1975 and committed suicide in 1977 in London, recording his last moments in his diary as the drugs overdose took effect.
The centenary of Keith Vaughan's birth was celebrated with an exhibition at Pallant House Gallery in Chichester, 'Keith Vaughan: Romanticism to Abstraction' (10 March to 10 June 2012).
His auction record of £313,250 was set at Sotheby's, London, on 11 November 2009, for the oil on canvas Theseus and the Minotaur, previously in the collection of Richard Attenborough (who bought it in 1967).
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Exhibitions
1944
Keith Vaughan: Gouaches and Drawings, Alex Reid and Lefevre Gallery, London
1946
Keith Vaughan: Paintings and Gouaches, Alex Reid and Lefevre Gallery, London
1948
Keith Vaughan: Paintings and Gouaches, George Dix Gallery, New YorkKeith Vaughan: Paintings, Gouaches and Monotypes, Alex Reid and Lefevre Gallery, London
1950
Keith Vaughan: Paintings and Gouaches, Instituto de Arte Moderno, Buenos AiresGouaches, Redfern Gallery, London
1951
Keith Vaughan: Paintings and Gouaches, Alex Reid and Lefevre Gallery, London
1952
Keith Vaughan: Retrospective Exhibition, Redfern Gallery, LondonKeith Vaughan - Drawings for Rimbaud: Une Saison en Enfer, Hanover Gallery, LondonKeith Vaughan: Paintings and Gouaches, Durlacher Bros, New York
1953
Keith Vaughan: Paintings, Leicester Galleries, London
1955
Keith Vaughan: Gouaches, Leicester Galleries, LondonKeith Vaughan: Paintings and Gouaches, Durlacher Bros, New York
1956
Keith Vaughan: New Paintings, Leicester Galleries, LondonKeith Vaughan: Retrospective Show, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle
1957
Keith Vaughan: Travelling Retrospective, (based on Keith Vaughan: Retrospective Show, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle), Arts CouncilKeith Vaughan: Paintings and Gouaches, Durlacher Bros, New York
1958
Keith Vaughan: Paintings, Leicester Galleries, London
1959
Keith Vaughan: Paintings and Gouaches, Iowa State University, Ames, IAKeith Vaughan, Leicester Galleries, London
1960
Keith Vaughan: Paintings, Gouaches and Drawings, Matthiesen Gallery, London
1962
Keith Vaughan: Retrospective Exhibition, Whitechapel Gallery, London
1963
Keith Vaughan: Drawings, Bienal de Sao Paulo
1964
Keith Vaughan: Paintings, Gouaches and Charcoals, Marlborough New London Gallery, London
1965
Keith Vaughan: Gouaches, Bear Lane Gallery, OxfordKeith Vaughan: Recent Gouaches, Marlborough Fine Art, London
1966
Keith Vaughan: Paintings, Durlacher Bros, New York
1967
Keith Vaughan: Retrospective Drawings, Tib Lane Gallery, Manchester
1968
Keith Vaughan: Gouaches, Rex Evans Gallery, Los Angeles, CAKeith Vaughan: New Paintings, Marlborough Fine Art, LondonKeith Vaughan: Gouaches and Drawings 1942-46, Hamet Gallery, London
1969
Keith Vaughan: Retrospective Exhibition, Mappin Gallery, SheffieldKeith Vaughan: Drawings, Tib Lane Gallery, Manchester
1970
Keith Vaughan: Paintings, Gouaches and Drawings, Bear Lane Gallery, OxfordKeith Vaughan: Gouaches and Drawings, Hamet Gallery, LondonKeith Vaughan: Retrospective, University of York, York
1973
Keith Vaughan: New Paintings, Waddington Galleries, LondonKeith Vaughan: Paintings in Gouaches, Victor Waddington Gallery, London
1976
Keith Vaughan: New Paintings and Gouaches, Waddington Galleries, LondonKeith Vaughan: Paintings, Gouaches and Drawings, Tib Lane Gallery, ManchesterKeith Vaughan: Paintings and Gouaches and Drawings, Compass Gallery, Glasgow
1977
Keith Vaughan: Memorial Exhibition, Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield
1981
Keith Vaughan: Images of Man: Figurative Paintings: 1946-1960, Geffrye Museum, London and Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery
1985
Keith Vaughan: Drawings and Paintings, New Grafton Gallery, LondonKeith Vaughan: Early Drawings and Gouaches, Thomas Agnew & Sons, London
1987
Keith Vaughan: Paintings and Drawings, New Grafton Gallery, LondonKeith Vaughan: Paintings, Gouaches, Watercolours and Drawings 1936-76, Austin/Desmond Fine Art, SunninghillKeith Vaughan: Paintings, Watercolours and Drawings, Mercury Gallery, EdinburghKeith Vaughan: Works on Paper, Garry Anderson Gallery, Darlinghurst
1989
Keith Vaughan, Austin/Desmond Fine Art, LondonKeith Vaughan: Gouaches, Drawings, Notebook Sketches, Redfern Gallery, London
1990
Keith Vaughan: Retrospective, Thomas Agnew & Sons, LondonKeith Vaughan: Paintings, Drawings, Gouaches, Anthony Hepworth Fine Art, Bath
1991
Drawings of the Young Male, St Jude's, LondonKeith Vaughan: Drawings, Anthony Hepworth Fine Art, Bath
1994
Keith Vaughan: Works on Paper, Redfern Gallery, London
1995
Keith Vaughan: Les Illuminations de Rimbaud, an Exhibition of 42 Drawings, Deka, LondonKeith Vaughan: Paintings, Drawings and Gouaches, Anthony Hepworth Fine Art, Bath
1999
Keith Vaughan: Gouaches and Drawings, Anthony Hepworth Fine Art, Bath
2000
Keith Vaughan: Paintings, Gouaches, Drawings and Lithographs, Julian Lax, London
2002
Keith Vaughan: Retrospective, Winter Fine Art and Antiques Fair, Olympia, London
2004
Keith Vaughan: Drawings, Anthony Hepworth Fine Art, Bath
2007
Keith Vaughan: Figure and Landscape, Victoria Art Gallery, BathKeith Vaughan: A Selection of Early Work from the Collection of Peter Adam, Anthony Hepworth Fine Art, BathKeith Vaughan: Paintings and Drawings, Osborne Samuel Gallery, London
2009
Keith Vaughan: Drawings, Abbott and Holder, London
2010
Drawings and Sketches for Paintings 1945-1960, Austin/Desmond Fine Art, LondonKeith Vaughan: Four Decades of Drawing, Gallery 27, London
2011
Keith Vaughan: Gouaches, Drawings and Prints, Osborne Samuel Gallery, LondonKeith Vaughan: Works on Paper, Anthony Hepworth Fine Art, Bath
2012
Keith Vaughan, Thomas Agnew & Sons, LondonKeith Vaughan: Works on Paper from the Estate of Keith Vaughan, Anthony Hepworth Fine Art, BathKeith Vaughan: Romanticism to Abstraction, Pallant House Gallery, ChichesterKeith Vaughan, Osborne Samuel Gallery, London
