- Artist
- Keith Vaughan 1912–1977
- Medium
- Gouache on paper
- Dimensions
- Support: 165 × 140 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Purchased 1955
- Reference
- T00001
Catalogue entry
T00001 DEMOLISHED HOUSES IN ST JOHN'S WOOD (NO.2) 1953
Inscr. ‘Keith Vaughan’ b.r.
Gouache on paper, 6 1/2×5 1/2 (17×14).
Purchased from the Leicester Galleries (Cleve Fund) 1955.
Exh: Leicester Galleries, February 1955 (32).
The artist wrote (17 April 1955): ‘One of a series of drawings made during 1952–3 of old, neglected and overgrown villas in and around St John's Wood, which were rapidly disappearing under the hands of contractors. It was not intended to be a record of any one particular house, but merely an occasion to return to the perennial landscape theme of the dissolution of man-made artifacts beneath the resurgent growth of nature.... It was executed, as are all my things, in my studio, from recollected visual impressions and not in confrontation with the forms depicted.’
Published in:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, II