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拍品专文
Vaughan spent the war in the Non-Combatant Corps and was stationed, during the early 1940s, at Salisbury Plain and in the Wylie Valley. He was thrown together with a mixed group of people and considered this to be one of the most rewarding experiences of his life. During the evenings, after fatigues, 9th Company, retired to their hut and each attended to their private concerns. This was when Vaughan opened his sketch-books and began work.
"Cosmo Rodewald shared barracks with him and remembered Vaughan relentlessly working on his drawings in uncomfortable surroundings whenever his army duties permitted. He recollected that Vaughan 'was often at work drawing in the evenings, by candlelight or lamplight, lying on his straw paillasse, his back propped up by a pile of blankets.' " (Gerard Hastings, Keith Vaughan: Four Decades of Drawing, Exh, cat., London: Gallery 27).
Vaughan made a series of pen, ink and wash portrait studies of his 9th Company messmates, such as the present work.
'The best of the army is in the relationships which could only exist under these conditions. We are a mixed and weirdly assorted lot with no common bonds or interests, except an unwillingness to kill strangers to orders'.
(Keith Vaughan, Journal and Drawings 1939-1965, Alan Ross, 1966, p. 50.)
G.H.
"Cosmo Rodewald shared barracks with him and remembered Vaughan relentlessly working on his drawings in uncomfortable surroundings whenever his army duties permitted. He recollected that Vaughan 'was often at work drawing in the evenings, by candlelight or lamplight, lying on his straw paillasse, his back propped up by a pile of blankets.' " (Gerard Hastings, Keith Vaughan: Four Decades of Drawing, Exh, cat., London: Gallery 27).
Vaughan made a series of pen, ink and wash portrait studies of his 9th Company messmates, such as the present work.
'The best of the army is in the relationships which could only exist under these conditions. We are a mixed and weirdly assorted lot with no common bonds or interests, except an unwillingness to kill strangers to orders'.
(Keith Vaughan, Journal and Drawings 1939-1965, Alan Ross, 1966, p. 50.)
G.H.