Keith Vaughan - ACE147.4

Figure paintings such as Small Assembly of Figures (1951). Vaughan’s VO on "space" in paintings: "As far as I can see, all space in painting is an illusion… the important thing is what has been painted there". Photograph of Vaughan with one of his paintings. His house in Essex and paintings of it. Ross VO on Vaughan’s relationships or lack of them. Photograph of Vaughan at home. Vaughan’s VO on being alone. Ross on Vaughan’s later journals. Paintings of young men intercut with film of men in similar poses – on a beach, in the sea, etc. Vaughan’s VO on the need for maturity. More beach scenes. Catalogue of exhibition at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 1962. Robertson’s VO over paintings including Landscape with Figure, Morellos (1959); people talking about the exhibition and its critical reception. Vaughan’s words VO. Ross says that he had no idea of the loneliness, frustration and misery endured by Vaughan, though he thought he knew him well, until he read the journals. Vaughan’s VO on getting his CBE (1965). Photograph (1968) of Vaughan in his studio. Paintings; Assembly of Figures VII (1964). Ross on Vaughan’s cancer and other illnesses, his need to adjust to a new reality, and his suicide. Paintings. Vaughan’s VO on the suddenness of death and the need to arrange things so that there is as little "disorder" as possible. Photograph of Vaughan seated in his studio with a painting; painting – of a suicide – shown. Vaughan’s words on his own suicide. The last entry in the journal: "… It wasn’t a complete failure. I did some work." Credits.