Jack B. Yeats, R.H.A.

Waddington Galleries, London, whence purchased by Mr F.S. Hess, 1962, and thence by descent to the present owner

Dublin, Leinster Hall, Pictures of Life in the West of Ireland, 10 - 29 May 1909, no.47;
London, Waddington Galleries, Watercolours: Yeats, Hayden, Feininger, 1962, no.5.

Hilary Pyle, Jack B. Yeats, His Watercolours, Drawings and Pastels, Dublin 1993, no.682, illustrated.

Executed on laid paper, the sheet is sound and in good original condition with strong colours throughout. Held in a simple gilt frame under glass; unexamined out of frame.
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Executed in 1909, the Persian rider clothed in his distinctive turban and sash, probably recalls a childhood memory from Buffalo Bill's Wild West shows at Earl's Court that the artist often visited when he lived around the corner in London.