Delos

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Maker


1912-1977

Title

Delos

Date of Production

1962

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

Height: 101.6 cm (canvas)
Width: 91.4 cm (canvas)

Object Number

P.1984.AH.470

Mode of Acquisition

Mark Ian Alastair Hunter, bequest, 1984

Credit

Courtauld Gallery, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords

Label Text

Vaughan first visited Greece in 1960 and returned on several occasions. The experience of sailing around the Greek islands had a profound effect upon his landscape painting, pushing his work towards abstraction. In this composition, based upon the island of Delos, he treats the wide expanses of sea and sky as large colour fields. Along the central line of the horizon a cluster of light and dark blocks and patches of colour suggest the island itself, famous for its ancient Minoan and Greek ruins.

Provenance

Hunter Bequest 1984

Exhibition History

Keith Vaughan, Olympia & London & England, 26/02/2001-03/03/2001
The Hunter Collection of Twentieth Century Masters, Courtauld Gallery, London, 10/10/1987-03/06/1988

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