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My First Day at Work but the Horse and I are Lost
细节
HELEN BRADLEY (1900-1979)
My First Day at Work but the Horse and I are Lost
signed ‘HELEN BRADLEY’ and with a fly (lower right); inscribed 'In March 1915 our traveller was called up,/Father arrived home distraught. "I'm beginning/to think we shall have to close our business"/he said. Then he saw me, "First thing tomorrow you/start work, you'll need a much longer skirt and a good/tweed jacket." The next day I took over a horse called/Gertie and started on my travels, Father said I was/to go to Middleton, and Gertie would take me, he also/said Gertie knows all the shops and all the streets so/off you go, but, I still hadn't found Middleton and it/was twelve o'clock. Me, Gertie, the trap full of parcels were/lost. Luckily I found a policeman. "Well, Miss, you're a/long way off, but turn right and keep on." How hard we/all worked and, although everyone said the War would/be over by Christmas - it went on and on - the year was/ March 1915.' (on the artist's label attached to the backboard)
oil on canvas-board
18 x 24 in. (45.7 x 61 cm.)
My First Day at Work but the Horse and I are Lost
signed ‘HELEN BRADLEY’ and with a fly (lower right); inscribed 'In March 1915 our traveller was called up,/Father arrived home distraught. "I'm beginning/to think we shall have to close our business"/he said. Then he saw me, "First thing tomorrow you/start work, you'll need a much longer skirt and a good/tweed jacket." The next day I took over a horse called/Gertie and started on my travels, Father said I was/to go to Middleton, and Gertie would take me, he also/said Gertie knows all the shops and all the streets so/off you go, but, I still hadn't found Middleton and it/was twelve o'clock. Me, Gertie, the trap full of parcels were/lost. Luckily I found a policeman. "Well, Miss, you're a/long way off, but turn right and keep on." How hard we/all worked and, although everyone said the War would/be over by Christmas - it went on and on - the year was/ March 1915.' (on the artist's label attached to the backboard)
oil on canvas-board
18 x 24 in. (45.7 x 61 cm.)
来源
with W.H. Patterson, London, where purchased by the present owners' father.
展览
London, W. H. Patterson, Summer Exhibition of Helen Bradley, June 1979, n.p., no. 12, illustrated.
荣誉呈献
Charlie Campbell-Gray
Head of Day Sale