Dempsey and Firpo (sometimes referred to as Dempsey Through The Ropes[1]) is an oil-on-canvas painting executed in 1923–1924 by the American artist George Bellows. It depicts the September 14, 1923, boxing match between American Jack Dempsey and Argentine Luis Firpo. It has become Bellows' most famous boxing painting.[2] The work has been in the collection of the Whitney Museum of Art since the museum's opening in 1931.[3]
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