Lot 170
  • 170

Jack B. Yeats, R.H.A.

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Jack B. Yeats, R.H.A.
  • Stencil of a Pirate on a Horse
  • signed with monogram and dated l.l.: 1902
  • both watercolour stencil
  • one: 21 by 14cm., 8¼ by 5½in.; the other 16 by 11cm., 6¼ by 4¼in.
together with a related example

Literature

Hilary Pyle, Jack B. YeatsHis Watercolours, Drawings and Pastels, Irish Academic Press, Dublin, 1993, no.426, p.119

Condition

Stencil of a Pirate on a Horse The sheet appears to be sound. Not laid down. Slightly discoloured; otherwise appears in good overall condition, ready to hang. The other: The sheet appears sound. Not laid down but adhered to backing sheet at upper and lower edges. Slightly discoloured otherwise the work appears in good overall condition, ready to hang. Both held in matching gilt composite frames with a cream mount under anti-reflective, UV filtering glass; unexamined out of frame.
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