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Great Aunt Jane Telling a Story
細節
Helen Bradley (1900-1979)
Great Aunt Jane Telling a Story
signed 'HELEN BRADLEY' and with a fly (lower left), inscribed ''Oh look George, if Great Aunt Jane hasn't gone to/sleep again, just when she was getting to the/nicest part.' She was telling us a most beautiful/story about God who has just come to live/quite near to her, in a shed on the lonely moor/near Harts Head Pipe. Mother said, 'Hush children/let Great Aunt Jane sleep, she's getting very old./She's only having a little cat-nap and will soon/waken; so George and I sat very still and soon/she opened her eyes and said, 'Dear me, children, I/must have just dropped off, where was I'; and she/went on to tell us that God would soon order the 'Thing'/which lived on the moors, and if it saw children it would/bite them, I know God would say to it, 'Be off with you',/and it would run over the hill to Mossley. When/we were going home down the lonely lane, George said that/he could hear it coming, but I wasnt afraid because I/knew God was near and would look after me, and the year was/1906.' (on a label attached to the reverse), inscribed again 'Gt aunt Jane telling a Story' (on a label attached to the reverse)
oil on canvas-board
13 x 9 in. (33 x 24.2 cm.)
Great Aunt Jane Telling a Story
signed 'HELEN BRADLEY' and with a fly (lower left), inscribed ''Oh look George, if Great Aunt Jane hasn't gone to/sleep again, just when she was getting to the/nicest part.' She was telling us a most beautiful/story about God who has just come to live/quite near to her, in a shed on the lonely moor/near Harts Head Pipe. Mother said, 'Hush children/let Great Aunt Jane sleep, she's getting very old./She's only having a little cat-nap and will soon/waken; so George and I sat very still and soon/she opened her eyes and said, 'Dear me, children, I/must have just dropped off, where was I'; and she/went on to tell us that God would soon order the 'Thing'/which lived on the moors, and if it saw children it would/bite them, I know God would say to it, 'Be off with you',/and it would run over the hill to Mossley. When/we were going home down the lonely lane, George said that/he could hear it coming, but I wasnt afraid because I/knew God was near and would look after me, and the year was/1906.' (on a label attached to the reverse), inscribed again 'Gt aunt Jane telling a Story' (on a label attached to the reverse)
oil on canvas-board
13 x 9 in. (33 x 24.2 cm.)
來源
The artist's studio, no.27.
with W.H. Patterson, London, 1981, where purchased by the present owner.
with W.H. Patterson, London, 1981, where purchased by the present owner.