Keith Vaughan

KEITH VAUGHAN d1977. British painter. He developed an idiosyncratic style which moved him away from the Neo-Romantics. Concentrating on studies of male figures, his works became increasingly abstract. He is also known for his journals, selections from which were published in 1966 and more extensively in 1989, after his death. A gay man troubled by his sexuality, he is known largely through those journals. He was diagnosed with cancer in 1975 and committed suicide in 1977 in London, recording his last moments in his diary as the drugs overdose took effect. His auction record of £313,250 was set at Sotheby's London on 11th November 2009 for the oil on canvas Theseus and The Minotaur