ID 1388469
Lot 162 | HELEN BRADLEY (1900-1979)
Estimate value
£ 18 000 – 25 000
On Friday Evening Father Brought Eliza Home
signed with a fly (lower left), signed again, inscribed and dated 'On Friday Evening Father brought Eliza home -/and there she stood waiting to be admired./Father called. ''Come and see what i've got./Now Jane, what do you think of Eliza''./''She beautiful'', said Mother, ''but Frederick,/can you drive her''. ''Of course'', said Father,/''you drive her just like a horse'', and tomorrow/morning we'll all go to Huddersfield''./On the opposite side of the road was Miss Carter/(who wore Pink) pretending not to see us. She is/saying ''Good Evening'' to Miss Maitland & her/mother. I could see Willie Murgatroyd & his/sister Annie & the Baby bringing home the shopping/from the Store. He always carried the flour/tied in a calico square on his head & the/year was 1908./Helen Layfield Bradley. 1967.' (on the artist's label attached to the reverse)
oil on canvas laid on board
20 x 24 in. (50.8 x 61 cm.)
Painted in 1967.
Provenance
with Mercury Gallery, London, where purchased by Mrs M.S. Mazur, California, in July 1967.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 4 October 1995, lot 173.
Exhibited
Preston, Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Helen Bradley: Paintings of a Victorian Childhood, 1996, no. 7.
London, W.H. Patterson, Helen Bradley: Commemorative Exhibition, July - August 2000, no. 33.
| Artist: | Helen Bradley (1900 - 1979) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil, Painted |
| Art style: | Modern art |
| Genre: | Cityscape |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
| Artist: | Helen Bradley (1900 - 1979) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil, Painted |
| Art style: | Modern art |
| Genre: | Cityscape |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
| Address of auction |
CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London United Kingdom | |
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