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HELEN BRADLEY (1900-1979)

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ID 831310
Lot 193 | HELEN BRADLEY (1900-1979)
HELEN BRADLEY (1900-1979)

Happy Land

signed with a fly (lower left), signed again, inscribed and dated 'There was a Happy Land, Far Far away…/Sang Albert, the new Curate and Miss Smith, who/urged the Children from the Mount Pleasant Mission to sing with all their might, but the Children wanted to begin the Treat straight away with the Tea, and/then the Races and sweets. All the Ladies from/Leesfield had helped to make it a Day to/Remember. Aunt Frances and Aunt Charlotte are/seeing that everyone gets a mug of Tea. Miss Carter (who/wore Pink) came, but did not bring her apron, so she/looked after our dogs, Gyp and Barney. Mother is also/helping, but is rather anxious lest George & I go/near the poor children, especially one little boy who has/put up his hand saying "Please Miss, I feel sick."/"Dear me," said Mother "what shall we do with him," but/we found out that the poor little boy hadn't had/anything to eat all day and had come over faint,/and the year was 1907/ Helen Layfield Bradley 1971.' (on the artist's label attached to the backboard)

oil on canvas

22 x 32 in. (55.9 x 81.3 cm.)

Painted in 1971.





Provenance

A gift from the artist to Bishop Foskett.

Mrs Joan Elizabeth Morton.

with Michael J Grimes, Liverpool, where purchased by the present owner in March 1994.



Exhibited

London, W.H. Patterson, Helen Bradley M.B.E. Commemorative Exhibition, July - August 2000, no. 24.



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Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.
Applied technique:Oil on canvas
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