Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871 - 1957)
The Bruiser (1900)
Watercolour 24.9 x 17.5cm (9 7/8 x 6 7/8”)
Signed twice, in watercolour and in pencil

Provenance: With The Dawson Gallery, Dublin, label verso;...

Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871 - 1957)
The Bruiser (1900)
Watercolour 24.9 x 17.5cm (9 7/8 x 6 7/8”)
Signed twice, in watercolour and in pencil

Provenance: With The Dawson Gallery, Dublin, label verso; Collection of Dr Graham McCarthy, Stockholm; With Waddington Galleries, London, labels verso; Sale, these rooms, 5/12/2001, lot 89; With Theo Waddington’s Irish Art Project, labels verso; Private Collection, Ireland

Exhibited: Dublin, Leinster Hall, March 1900, Sketches of Life in the West of Ireland and Elsewhere, cat.no.41; Oxford, Clarendon Hotel, October 1900, Sketches of Life in the West of Ireland; London, Walker Art Gallery, February 1901, Sketches of Life in the West of Ireland and Elsewhere, cat.no. 43; New York, Clausen Galleries, March/April 1904, Recent Watercolours, cat. no. 11; Dublin, The Dawson Gallery, Nov/Dec 1962, Watercolours and Pen and Ink Drawings, cat.no. 47.

Literature: H.Pyle, Jack B. Yeats, His Watercolours, Drawings and Pastels, cat.no. 500, p.131, where she describes the work thus: “A boxer on his way into a changing room which is already crowded. To the left is the entrance to the ring, where some men and women are discussing the contest.”

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