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MODERN BRITISH AND IRISH ART Wednesday 10 June 2015 2 | BONHAMS MODERN BRITISH AND IRISH ART | 1 MODERN BRITISH AND IRISH ART Wednesday 10 June 2015, at 15.00 101 New Bond Street, London LONDON VIEWING BIDS ENQUIRIES CUSTOMER SERVICES New Bond Street, London +44 (0) 20 7447 7448 London Monday to Friday 08.30 to 18.00 +44 (0) 20 7447 4401 fax Matthew Bradbury +44 (0) 20 7447 7448 Friday 5 June To bid via the internet please +44 (0) 20 7468 8295 14.00 - 19.00 visit bonhams.com [email protected] As a courtesy to intending Saturday 6 June bidders, Bonhams will provide a 11.00 - 15.00 Please note that bids should be Penny Day written Indication of the physical Sunday 7 June submitted no later than 4pm on +44 (0) 20 7468 8366 condition of lots in this sale if a the day prior to the sale. New [email protected] request is received up to 24 11.00 - 15.00 bidders must also provide proof hours before the auction starts. Monday 8 June of identity when submitting bids. 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Payment at time of collection By credit card / debit card SENIOR MANAGEMENT AND SPECIALIST STAFF MATTHEW BRADBURY PENNY DAY CHRISTOPHER DAWSON INGRAM REID Director, UK Board Department Director Senior Specialist Junior Specialist and Head of Sale JANE BEATTIE JONATHAN HORWICH Irish Representative Global Director of Fine Art EIGHT WORKS BY KEITH VAUGHAN 1 AR KEITH VAUGHAN (1912-1977) Taroudant: Negroes among Olive Trees signed and dated ‘Keith Vaughan/65.’ (lower right) wash, gouache, ink and pastel 22.9 x 19 cm. (9 x 7 1/2 in.) £8,000 - 12,000 €11,000 - 16,000 US$12,000 - 18,000 Provenance With Marlborough Fine Art, London (as Tarrondannt: Negros among Olive Trees) Baron Wilfred Brown MBE, 1975, and by family descent to the present owner Private Collection, U.K. Wilfred Brown was the chairman and managing director of Glacier Marvellous landscape driving up the coastal road from Agadir. Dry, Metal Company. The present lot was given to him by colleagues on the luminous scrubby foothills, cinnamon pink to olive – white dotted occasion of his retirement in 1975. It was selected by Elliot Jacques, with dark olives & patches of glowing saturated colour from the the Canadian psychoanalyst who worked with Brown on a worker people working in the fields. Camels, oxen or donkeys harnessed to behavioural study called the Glacier Project. the ploughs. Flocks of black, brown & white goats. Shepherd boys in bluish white djellabas...storks fly overhead... like living in the Old Vaughan visited Morocco in April 1965 with his friend and doctor, Testament...Light cotton djelabas start indigo & bleach through every Patrick Woodcock. They hired a car and drove all over the tone of the colour until they become nearly white. country, starting in the south at Taroudant and then moving on to Agadir, Essaouira (‘Tremendous intensity of light. Burning sun and Here a group of figures assemble perhaps at sunset. They are perpetual cold wind’), Marrakech and finally arriving at Casablanca silhouetted and intertwine with one another. In the foreground, at the (‘The worst town I know after Mexico City’). There they left their car left, are two paler figures. Vaughan had noticed the flowing, hooded and took a train to Tangier (‘I leave with more regret than I would robes of the locals and how, in the blinding sunlight they whitened have thought possible’). over time. Inside the ramparts of Taroudant, in the Sous Valley, Vaughan This gouache has the quality and freshness of an improvisation. The witnessed gathering groups of people in the Arab Souk and the Berber forms are handled freely in inky brush tracks and frothing textures.