Theseus, c. 1950, (Final study for the Dome of Discovery at The Festival of Britain)

Alan Ross;
with Redfern Gallery, London, 1978;
Private Collection;
with Waddington Galleries;
with Austin Desmond Fine Art, Sunninghill

Sunninghill, Austin Desmond Fine Art, Keith Vaughan, 1987 (illustrated in the exhibition catalogue, no. 53 and on the invitation card);
Woking, The Lightbox, The Ingram Collection: Diamond Jubilee Exhibition, 6 March – 15 April 2012;
London, Agnew’s, Keith Vaughan, 15 May – 15 June 2012;
Woking, The Lightbox, Landscapes of the Mind, 1 January – 28 February 2013;
Woking, The Lightbox, The Ingram Collection: The Impact of War, 15 October 2014 – 4 January 2015;
London, East Wing Galleries, Somerset House, Out There: Our Post-War British Art, 3 February – 10 April 2016;
Hastings, Jerwood Gallery, Century: 100 Modern British Artists, 23 October 2016 – 8 January 2017;
Woking, The Lightbox, John Minton and the Romantic Tradition, 28 January – 9 March 2017;
London, Mall Galleries, The Art of Collecting, 27 June – 6 July 2018;
Sheffield, Museums Sheffield, Darkness into Light, 20 October 2018 – 13 January 2019;
Hull, Ferens Art Gallery, Reflection: British Art in an Age of Change, 17 August 2019 – 5 January 2020

The Spectator, 4 April 1987 (illustrated, p. 42);
Malcolm Yorke, Keith Vaughan: His Life & Work, Constable & Company, London, 1990 (p. 149-151);
Margaret Garlake, New Art, New World: British Art in Post-war Society, Yale, New Haven & London, 1998 (p. 56, 184, 218-219)

One of the key works commissioned for the Festival of Britain was a 50 foot long mural by Vaughan for the Dome of Discovery on London’s South Bank. Theseus depicts explorers landing on new territory with a central figure holding up a beacon which spreads light across the land, reflecting the optimism of the time. Milllions of visitors visited the dome which was only open for a few months before it was demolished.