Lot 95
  • 95

Jack Butler Yeats, R.H.A. 1871-1957

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
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Description

  • Jack Butler Yeats, R.H.A.
  • A Champion (A Cross-Country Champion)
  • signed JACK B./ YEATS lower right
  • watercolor on artist's board
  • 14¼ by 10¼ in.
  • 36.5 by 26.2 cm.

Provenance

William Macbeth Gallery, New York

Exhibited

Dublin, 9 Merrion Row, Sketches of Life in the West of Ireland, 18 - 30 August 1902, no.1;
London, Walker Art Gallery, Sketches of Life in the West of Ireland, 4 February - 4 March 1903, no.6;
New York, Clausen Galleries, Recent Watercolours, 31 March - 16 April 1904, no.7

Literature

Hilary Pyle, Jack B. Yeats: His Watercolours, Drawings and Pastels, Irish Academic Press, 1993, no.415.

Condition

The work is in good condition. There is mat stain along edges, predominantly along upper edge and parts of the left and right edge visible in the sky.
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