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Landscape with seated figure
VAUGHAN, Keith (1912-1977)
In Landscape with Seated Figure the subject’s head has been obscured with a red cross – perhaps a reference to the self-censorship that the artist Keith Vaughan was forced to enact within his own life. His journal entries at this time reveal his anger and struggle with the injustices of being a gay man living at a time when same sex relationships between men were still criminalised. Vaughan is now well-known for his paintings of the male nude that sit between the abstract and figurative – a powerful updating or queering the heteronormative subject of the bather in western art.
Image: © Estate of Keith Vaughan. All Rights Reserved. DACS 2025/Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 246
Creation/Production
VAUGHAN, Keith
Date: 1964
Acquisition
Bequest, 1989
Measurements
Height
(cm): 43.6
Width
(cm): 40
Height
(in): 17
Width
(in): 15
Techniques
oil on board
Techniques (fine art)
art dept - fine
Fine Art - painting
Material
oil
board
Location
Gallery 16
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