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Theseus

Drawing
1950 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Pencil drawing from a set of four studies for the painting 'Theseus'. An alternative title for the painting is 'Interior at Minos'.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleTheseus (series title)
Materials and techniques
Pencil drawing
Brief description
Drawing by Keith Vaughan: reclining figure, from a set of 4 studies for a painting entitled 'Theseus'. Great Britain, 1950.
Physical description
Pencil drawing from a set of four studies for the painting 'Theseus'. An alternative title for the painting is 'Interior at Minos'.
Dimensions
  • Height: 4.75in (Note: Taken from Departmental Circulation Register 1958)
  • Width: 11in (Note: Taken from Departmental Circulation Register 1958)
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic references
  • Taken from Departmental Circulation Register 1958
  • The following excerpts are from the GLBTQ archive entry for Keith Vaughan, written by Shaun Cole, 2002: "A painter of figures and landscapes in oils and gouache, British artist Keith Vaughan specialized in the depiction of male nudes in landscape. Vaughan was above all else enthralled by the male human body, which, as Bernard Denvir observed in the catalogue of an exhibition held at Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery in 1981, "assumed in his work an importance it had never known before in the history of British painting." Vaughan's paintings depicted "Man," often naked and usually too indistinct to identify as individual portraits, in relation to his landscape, his environment, his space. Implicit in much of his work is man as a homosexual in opposition to his fellow man and a hostile world. The work is that of someone who felt himself to be an outsider, looking at situations and relationships in which he cannot participate. Although the tone of the drawings altered during his career, and range from the tender to the erotic, they are free of the inhibitions that sometimes appear in his paintings intended for exhibition. They reveal more fully his love for and obsession with the young male body."
Collection
Accession number
CIRC.264-1958

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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