Pastime of the Londoners: A Running Ground in the East End of London

Details

Jack Butler Yeats, R.H.A. (1871-1957)
Pastime of the Londoners: A Running Ground in the East End of London
signed 'JACK B/YEATS' (upper right), inscribed 'A RUNNING GROUND/IN THE EAST END OF LONDON' (upper left)
ink and watercolour
12¾ x 20½ in. (32.4 x 52 cm.)
Executed circa 1900.

Provenance

Purchased by the present owner at the 1973 exhibition.

Literature

Jack B. Yeats, A Broadside, April 1911, illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, Jack B. Yeats, London, Waddington Galleries, 1973, no. 29, illustrated.
H. Pyle, The Different World of Jack B. Yeats His Cartoons and Illustrations, Dublin, 1994, pp. 115, 118, no. 645, illustrated.

Exhibited

London, Waddington Galleries, Jack B. Yeats, 1973, no. 29.

Special notice

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 15% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Essay

The present work is one of the twenty-eight illustrations that Yeats provided for a book entitled Pastimes of the Londoners, circa 1900. The book was never published however, and instead he used several of the drawings, including the present work, in A Broadside, his monthly series which was published in April 1911.

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