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- Keith Vaughan 1912–1977
- Title
- Detailed drawing of men playing with a ball on a beach
- Date
- [1941–4]
- Medium
- Ink and watercolour paint on paper
- Dimensions
- 115 x 165 mm
- Description
- It is inscribed 'Skin colour varies from parchment white to colour of sand. Darkening at knees. Blue shorts intensify sea blue. Face colour dark. Sea and sky vary only slightly. The same tone. White lighthouse. White boat'.
- Format
- Artwork - on paper, unique
- Collection
- Tate Archive
- Acquisition
- Purchased by the archive from Thos. Agnew and Sons Ltd in November 1990
- Reference
- TGA 9013/1/31
Archive context
- Sketches & drawings, advertising work, sketchbook and one gouache by Keith Vaughan TGA 9013 (148)
- Loose drawings and sketches TGA 9013/1 (127)
- Detailed drawing of men playing with a ball on a beach TGA 9013/1/31
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