Lot Essay
According to the artist, 'the boxer on the right is the novice about to try to make a reputation against the Top (sic) sawyer on the left' (The Gaelic-American April 1904)
Details
Jack Butler Yeats, R.H.A. (1871-1957)
To Make a Reputation
signed lower left Jack B Yeats, watercolour, bodycolour heightened with white on two (joined) sheets of paper
6½ x 35½in. (16.5 x 90.2cm)
Executed in 1901
To Make a Reputation
signed lower left Jack B Yeats, watercolour, bodycolour heightened with white on two (joined) sheets of paper
6½ x 35½in. (16.5 x 90.2cm)
Executed in 1901
Provenance
Waddington Galleries, London by whom purchased by Philip Goldberg, London, Sale; Christies The Goldberg Collection, 2nd December 1986, Lot 174, where purchased by the present owner.
Exhibited
London, Walter Art Gallery, Jack B Yeats Sketches, 1901, no.40
New York, Clausen Galleries, Jack B Yeats Recent Watercolours, 1904, no33
London, Fine Fine Art Society, Spring Exhibition, 1987, no.43
New York, Clausen Galleries, Jack B Yeats Recent Watercolours, 1904, no33
London, Fine Fine Art Society, Spring Exhibition, 1987, no.43