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HELEN BRADLEY (1900-1979)

Lot 224
19.10.2023 13:00UTC +00:00
Classic
Starting price
£ 25 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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ID 1051423
Lot 224 | HELEN BRADLEY (1900-1979)
Estimate value
£ 25 000 – 35 000
HELEN BRADLEY (1900-1979)

Poor Aunt Charlotte Blushed as She Sang

signed with a fly (lower right), signed again, inscribed and dated 'Poor Aunt Charlotte blushed as she sang .../at Grandma's on Sunday Evenings the aunts,/Miss Emily Maitland and Miss Carter (who wore Pink)/took turns in singing, but poor Aunt Charlotte/had just reached her top note when she turned/bright pink and stopped. Father, who was playing/the violin stopped also and wondered what was/the matter. She had seen the New Curate, The/Rev. Albert Green, walking in behind Mother./Father said, Come along, Lottie dear, that was/very nice, but she wouldn't continue. Miss Emily/Maitland finished the evening by singing, ''Coming/through the Rye''. Mother is bringing Grandma's/gruel and George her piece of Toast, Mr Taylor (the/Bank Manager) is sitting next to Miss Maitland and/that evening we all thought him very attentive to dear/Emily and the year was 1907/Helen Layfield Bradley/1965' (on the artist's label attached to the backboard)

oil on canvas laid on board

24 x 30 in. (61 x 76.2 cm.)

Painted in 1965.





Provenance

with MG Fine Art, Blackburn, where purchased by the present owner in February 2004.
Artist:Helen Bradley (1900 - 1979)
Applied technique:Oil, Painted
Art style:Modern art
Auction house category:Paintings
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