Landscape with Seated Figure

© the estate of Keith Vaughan. All rights reserved, DACS 2024. Image credit: Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales

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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.
Title

Landscape with Seated Figure

Date

1964

Medium

oil on board

Measurements

H 43.6 x W 40 cm

Accession number

NMW A 246

Acquisition method

bequeathed by Dr Philip Nelmes, 1989

Work type

Painting

Inscription description

Vaughan

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