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Armistice Day, 11th November 1918
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Helen Layfield Bradley (1900-1979)
Armistice Day, 11th November 1918
signed 'HELEN BRADLEY' and with a fly (lower left), inscribed 'It was a rather warm November day/when I set off to book my orders, and I'd/got as far as Miles Platting when there's a bang/so loud I thought a Zepp had dropped a bomb. I/went out of my customer's shop to see what happened/-Goodness, everyone was dashing about, a Tram went past/laden with people. They were all going home. Everyone/was rushing home - why! Then I saw a Union Jack/- just a small one being pushed out of a bedroom window,/then a large one being fastened to the railway bridge. Then the/noise of great joy began. All the mill hooters went off and the/Church Bells rang out. "The War's over" everyone cried. It/was hard to believe, however, I decided to pack up and go/home, but I had great difficulty in getting on a tram, which/I managed with the help of a man. It was a day we shall/never forget. The 11th November. 1918.' (on a label attached to the reverse)
oil on canvas-board
20¾ x 28¾ in. (52.7 x 73 cm.)
This work is recorded by the artist's studio as no. 5A.
Armistice Day, 11th November 1918
signed 'HELEN BRADLEY' and with a fly (lower left), inscribed 'It was a rather warm November day/when I set off to book my orders, and I'd/got as far as Miles Platting when there's a bang/so loud I thought a Zepp had dropped a bomb. I/went out of my customer's shop to see what happened/-Goodness, everyone was dashing about, a Tram went past/laden with people. They were all going home. Everyone/was rushing home - why! Then I saw a Union Jack/- just a small one being pushed out of a bedroom window,/then a large one being fastened to the railway bridge. Then the/noise of great joy began. All the mill hooters went off and the/Church Bells rang out. "The War's over" everyone cried. It/was hard to believe, however, I decided to pack up and go/home, but I had great difficulty in getting on a tram, which/I managed with the help of a man. It was a day we shall/never forget. The 11th November. 1918.' (on a label attached to the reverse)
oil on canvas-board
20¾ x 28¾ in. (52.7 x 73 cm.)
This work is recorded by the artist's studio as no. 5A.
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 14 November 1986, lot 189, where purchased by the present owner's husband.
Literature
Exhibition catalogue, Summer Exhibition of Helen Bradley, London, W.H. Patterson Gallery, 1979, no. 13, illustrated.
Exhibited
London, W.H. Patterson Gallery, Summer Exhibition of Helen Bradley, June 1979, no. 13.
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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