Live Auction 7579The Irish Sale
Jack Butler Yeats, R.H.A. (1871-1957)
Lot 98

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

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

Closed8 May 2008

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GBP 18,500

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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.

Purchased by the present owner at the 1973 exhibition.

Specialist note

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.