Delos
Maker
(Artists)
1912-1977
1912-1977
Title
Delos
Date of Production
1962
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
Height: 101.6 cm (canvas)
Width: 91.4 cm (canvas)
Width: 91.4 cm (canvas)
Accession Number
P.1984.AH.470
Mode of Acquisition
Mark Ian Alastair Hunter, bequest, 1984
Credit
The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)
Copyright
© The Estate of Keith Vaughan. All rights reserved, DACS 2023
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, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 10/10/1987-03/06/1988
The Hunter Collection of Twentieth Century Masters, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 10/10/1987-03/06/1988
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