Collection Mr Peter Missen

According to the Dulwich Picture Gallery catalogue of 1985 Toledo Massacre was ‘the only boxing scene by Rabin to record a particular match – the world heavyweight title fight between Jack Dempsey and Jess Willard at Toledo USA 1919’. According to conversations between Sharon Taylor & Rabin’s friend and colleague Stanley Paine Rabin started this picture in the 1950s and it remained in his possession until his death. Paine suggested that he continued to work on this piece over the years and considered it a significant work.