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Grandma Watering her Aspidistra
細節
Helen Bradley (1900-1979)
Grandma Watering her Aspidistra
signed 'HELEN BRADLEY' and with a fly (lower right), inscribed 'Grandma loved Aspidistra's. She had one/on a little table in every room, except the/bedrooms. Then there was a smaller one on the/window sills and they all had to be talked/too (sic.) and their leaves wiped with a soft sponge/dipped in milk. They had to have drinks/of tea because Grandma said that it did them/good and she took George and I round with/her when she talked to them. 'You are doing/very well' she said to this one in the yellow/jardinierre. 'Look, we brought two little children to have a word with you'. 'Has it got a name, Grandma'/we asked her. 'Well, I think we ought to give her/one, what about calling this one 'Susanna', and/the one on the window sill is 'Baby'. She's very young'./and Grandma gave them all names and I loved/them and the year was 1906' (on a label attached to the reverse), inscribed again 'Grandma watering her/aspidistra's' (on a label attached to the reverse)
oil on canvas-board
13 x 9 in. (33.7 x 24.1 cm.)
Grandma Watering her Aspidistra
signed 'HELEN BRADLEY' and with a fly (lower right), inscribed 'Grandma loved Aspidistra's. She had one/on a little table in every room, except the/bedrooms. Then there was a smaller one on the/window sills and they all had to be talked/too (sic.) and their leaves wiped with a soft sponge/dipped in milk. They had to have drinks/of tea because Grandma said that it did them/good and she took George and I round with/her when she talked to them. 'You are doing/very well' she said to this one in the yellow/jardinierre. 'Look, we brought two little children to have a word with you'. 'Has it got a name, Grandma'/we asked her. 'Well, I think we ought to give her/one, what about calling this one 'Susanna', and/the one on the window sill is 'Baby'. She's very young'./and Grandma gave them all names and I loved/them and the year was 1906' (on a label attached to the reverse), inscribed again 'Grandma watering her/aspidistra's' (on a label attached to the reverse)
oil on canvas-board
13 x 9 in. (33.7 x 24.1 cm.)
來源
The artist's studio, no.28.
with W.H. Patterson, London, 1981, where purchased by the present owner.
with W.H. Patterson, London, 1981, where purchased by the present owner.