London, Leicester Galleries, June-August 1966, cat.no.35Vaughan, usually celebrated for his male nude paintings, was also a highly accomplished painter of landscapes and still life subjects. During the late 1940s and early 1950s he produced a range of paintings representing groups of figures acting out enigmatic relationships within the confines of sparsely furnished rooms. Often, in such works, tables are laid out with a variety of symbolic, domestic objects that seem to take on greater significance because of their proximity to the emotionally charged figures. In time, Vaughan began to explore still life as an independent subject. In 1950 for example, he thirty of his new gouaches at the Redfern Gallery. Nine of them were still life paintings of jugs, cups and coffee pots accompanied by various citrus fruits carefully placed on coloured tablecloths and balconies. In an unpublished studio notebook, dating from 1963, Vaughan wrote