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Going Home Through Alexandra Park
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HELEN BRADLEY (1900-1979)
Going Home Through Alexandra Park
signed with a fly (lower right); signed again, inscribed and dated 'Going home through the park on a Winter's Evening./George, I, Mother, Grandma and the dogs (Gyp & Barney)/went to meet aunt Frances & aunt Charlotte in/the Park. They had already met Miss Carter (who wore Pink) and the three ladies were skating/along when they saw Mr Taylor (the Bank Manager)./"How kind dear Mr Taylor is" said mother to Grandma, "but look isn't that the Rev Albert Green walking/across the lee towards Charlotte & she's turning/towards him"-"I wonder if anything will come of it,"/but George & I had something much more interesting/to think about, all the ducks came across the ice/asking for food, and all the Japanese lanterns/were lit and everything looked like Fairyland &/the year was 1907./ Helen Layfield Bradley 1970' (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 1970.
Going Home Through Alexandra Park
signed with a fly (lower right); signed again, inscribed and dated 'Going home through the park on a Winter's Evening./George, I, Mother, Grandma and the dogs (Gyp & Barney)/went to meet aunt Frances & aunt Charlotte in/the Park. They had already met Miss Carter (who wore Pink) and the three ladies were skating/along when they saw Mr Taylor (the Bank Manager)./"How kind dear Mr Taylor is" said mother to Grandma, "but look isn't that the Rev Albert Green walking/across the lee towards Charlotte & she's turning/towards him"-"I wonder if anything will come of it,"/but George & I had something much more interesting/to think about, all the ducks came across the ice/asking for food, and all the Japanese lanterns/were lit and everything looked like Fairyland &/the year was 1907./ Helen Layfield Bradley 1970' (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 1970.
Provenance
with Richard Green, London, where purchased by the present owner in May 1999.
Literature
H. Bradley, And Miss Carter Wore Pink: Scenes from an Edwardian Childhood, London, 1971, p. 27, illustrated.
Special notice
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.
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