Sale 6955
London
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19 November 2004
Price realised
GBP 47,800
Estimate
Helen Bradley (1900-1997) A summer evening on the lake in Alexandra Park signed with a fly (lower right), signed, inscribed and dated 'A Summer Evening on the lake in Alexandra Park./On nice evenings we walked through the Park on/our way home from having Tea with Great Aunt Buckley, who lived in a dark Brown House on/Greengate Street. George & I had been very good/so Aunt Charlotte and Aunt Frances took us for a/sail on the launch which was quite a thrill. It/took us past a little island where all the ducks/were getting ready to roost for the night. As we got nearer the landing stage we could/see Grandma, Mother and Aunt Mary who was/holding the dogs, Gyp and Barney, who barked when they/saw us, Miss Carter (who wore Pink) & Mr Taylor (the Bank/Manager) were walking back with us and would stay/to supper at Grandma's while George & I went home to Bed, and the year was 1906. Helen Layfield Bradley 1970' (on a label attached to the reverse) oil on canvas laid on board 24 x 30 in. (61 x 76.2 cm.)
Provenance
with Mercury Gallery, London, where purchased by M.M. Gilbert, May 1971.
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