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Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871-1957)
Estimate:
€10,000 - €15,000
Sold
€10,000
Live Auction
Important Irish Art
Size
14.50 by 10.50in. (36.8 by 26.7cm)
Description
Title: A CHAMPION (A CROSS-COUNTRY CHAMPION), c.1902
Frame dimensions: 23 by 18in. (58.4 by 45.7cm)
Frame dimensions: 23 by 18in. (58.4 by 45.7cm)
Condition
Overall excellent condition.
Medium
watercolour
Signature
signed lower right; with William Macbeth Gallery label on reverse
Provenance
William Macbeth Gallery, New York;Sotheby's, New York, 5 June 2009, lot 95;Private collection
Literature
Hilary Pyle, Jack B. Yeats: His Watercolours, Drawings and Pastels, Irish Academic Press, Dublin, 1983, catalogue no. 415, p. 116
Exhibited
'Sketches of Life in the West of Ireland', 9 Merrion Row, Dublin, 18-30 August 1902, catalogue no. 1;'Sketches of Life in the West of Ireland', Walker Art Gallery, London, 4 February to 4 March 1903, catalogue no. 6;'Recent Watercolours', Clausen Galleries, New York, 31 March to 16 April 1904, no. 7
