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We told Grandpa the dreadful news
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Helen Layfield Bradley (1900-1979)
We told Grandpa the dreadful news
signed with a fly (lower right), signed again, inscribed and dated 'We told Grandpa the dreadful news as soon as/we reached Blackpool, that Dear Anne, who/had only been married a month, had left Willie/Mother read aloud the letter she had sent to/her saying that Willie had told her that she/must give up all thoughts of continuing her search/for knowledge and devote her life to Husband,/home and children. "Dear Anne", said Mother,/"please forgive her, she couldn't face such a bleak/future", but Grandpa was very cross and upset/and said that the only thing we could do was to/set off to follow her to London and bring her back/for she must do her duty and the year was 1909/Helen Layfield Bradley 1971.' (on the artist's label attached to the reverse)
oil on canvas-board
20 x 24 in. (50.8 x 61 cm.)
We told Grandpa the dreadful news
signed with a fly (lower right), signed again, inscribed and dated 'We told Grandpa the dreadful news as soon as/we reached Blackpool, that Dear Anne, who/had only been married a month, had left Willie/Mother read aloud the letter she had sent to/her saying that Willie had told her that she/must give up all thoughts of continuing her search/for knowledge and devote her life to Husband,/home and children. "Dear Anne", said Mother,/"please forgive her, she couldn't face such a bleak/future", but Grandpa was very cross and upset/and said that the only thing we could do was to/set off to follow her to London and bring her back/for she must do her duty and the year was 1909/Helen Layfield Bradley 1971.' (on the artist's label attached to the reverse)
oil on canvas-board
20 x 24 in. (50.8 x 61 cm.)
Provenance
with Mercury Gallery, London, where purchased by the present owner's father, October 1971.
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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