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Hollinwood Market
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HELEN BRADLEY (1900-1979)
Hollinwood Market
signed 'HELEN BRADLEY' and with a fly (lower left), signed again, inscribed and dated ‘For a Special Treat we all went to/Hollinwood Market. Mother, George and/Miss Carter (who wore Pink). She and/Grandma thought they would look at the stall/selling Lace Curtains, but George and I saw/a Man with a basketfull of lovely Toys,/We were so delighted, we let go the Dogs leads/but Gyp and Barney didn’t run away./Mother was cross and said Toys were only/for Birthdays and Christmas and the/year was 1906./Helen Layfield Bradley 1972.’ (on the artist's label attached to the reverse)
oil on canvas laid on board
20 x 30 in. (50.6 x 76.2 cm.)
Painted in 1972.
Hollinwood Market
signed 'HELEN BRADLEY' and with a fly (lower left), signed again, inscribed and dated ‘For a Special Treat we all went to/Hollinwood Market. Mother, George and/Miss Carter (who wore Pink). She and/Grandma thought they would look at the stall/selling Lace Curtains, but George and I saw/a Man with a basketfull of lovely Toys,/We were so delighted, we let go the Dogs leads/but Gyp and Barney didn’t run away./Mother was cross and said Toys were only/for Birthdays and Christmas and the/year was 1906./Helen Layfield Bradley 1972.’ (on the artist's label attached to the reverse)
oil on canvas laid on board
20 x 30 in. (50.6 x 76.2 cm.)
Painted in 1972.
Provenance
with MacConnal-Mason & Son, London, where purchased by the present owner in the 1990s.
Literature
I. Taylor, Helen Bradley's Lancashire, Devon, 2002, p. 96, illustrated.
Exhibited
Preston, Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Helen Bradley: Paintings of a Victorian Childhood, 1996, no. 14.
London, W.H. Patterson, Helen Bradley M.B.E. Commemorative Exhibition, July - August 2000, no. 23.
London, W.H. Patterson, Helen Bradley M.B.E. Commemorative Exhibition, July - August 2000, no. 23.
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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