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Article: Just mad about the boys; WEEKENDER;Since he committed suicide, Keith Vaughan's work has been swept aside by the tide of conceptual and video flotsam.
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- February 22, 2002
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Byline: BRIAN SEWELL
HE was a major figure in British postwar figurative painting," wrote Sir Nicholas Serota of Keith Vaughan in March two years ago. "A retrospective overdue. Although we do not have any plans to mount such a show at the Tate ... I think it likely that we will include more of his works in displays at Tate Britain once our centenary development is completed in 2001."
Though that development is indeed complete and the Tate owns a dozen works by Vaughan, not one of them is yet on view.
As for the "overdue" retrospective exhibition that Serota suggests could be seen to advantage in another public gallery, this goes on view next ...