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Lot 109
Helen Layfield Bradley (1900-1979)
What a Lovely Evening
Closed22 March 2012
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GBP 13,125
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Helen Layfield Bradley (1900-1979)
What a Lovely Evening
signed and with a fly 'HELEN BRADLEY (lower left), signed again, inscribed and dated '"What a lovely Evening", said/mother, as we walked back to the/village to meet Grandpa, who had/the horse and trap ready to take us/back into Blackpool. George and I/gathered some daisys and poppys[sic]/to give to Grandma when we saw/her, "Doesn't this soft dusk remind/you of that lovely poem" .. "Between the/Dusk and the Daylight, when the light is/beginning to lower, comes a pause in/the Days occupation, which is known as/the Childrens Hour," That's lovely isn't it,"/said Aunt Frances, and the year was/1907./Helen Layfield Bradley' (on a label attached to the backboard)
watercolour and bodycolour
7 x 9½ in. (17.8 x 24.2 cm.)
What a Lovely Evening
signed and with a fly 'HELEN BRADLEY (lower left), signed again, inscribed and dated '"What a lovely Evening", said/mother, as we walked back to the/village to meet Grandpa, who had/the horse and trap ready to take us/back into Blackpool. George and I/gathered some daisys and poppys[sic]/to give to Grandma when we saw/her, "Doesn't this soft dusk remind/you of that lovely poem" .. "Between the/Dusk and the Daylight, when the light is/beginning to lower, comes a pause in/the Days occupation, which is known as/the Childrens Hour," That's lovely isn't it,"/said Aunt Frances, and the year was/1907./Helen Layfield Bradley' (on a label attached to the backboard)
watercolour and bodycolour
7 x 9½ in. (17.8 x 24.2 cm.)
Helen Layfield Bradley (1900-1979)
What a Lovely Evening
signed and with a fly 'HELEN BRADLEY (lower left), signed again, inscribed and dated '"What a lovely Evening", said/mother, as we walked back to the/village to meet Grandpa, who had/the horse and trap ready to take us/back into Blackpool. George and I/gathered some daisys and poppys[sic]/to give to Grandma when we saw/her, "Doesn't this soft dusk remind/you of that lovely poem" .. "Between the/Dusk and the Daylight, when the light is/beginning to lower, comes a pause in/the Days occupation, which is known as/the Childrens Hour," That's lovely isn't it,"/said Aunt Frances, and the year was/1907./Helen Layfield Bradley' (on a label attached to the backboard)
watercolour and bodycolour
7 x 9½ in. (17.8 x 24.2 cm.)
What a Lovely Evening
signed and with a fly 'HELEN BRADLEY (lower left), signed again, inscribed and dated '"What a lovely Evening", said/mother, as we walked back to the/village to meet Grandpa, who had/the horse and trap ready to take us/back into Blackpool. George and I/gathered some daisys and poppys[sic]/to give to Grandma when we saw/her, "Doesn't this soft dusk remind/you of that lovely poem" .. "Between the/Dusk and the Daylight, when the light is/beginning to lower, comes a pause in/the Days occupation, which is known as/the Childrens Hour," That's lovely isn't it,"/said Aunt Frances, and the year was/1907./Helen Layfield Bradley' (on a label attached to the backboard)
watercolour and bodycolour
7 x 9½ in. (17.8 x 24.2 cm.)
London, W.H. Patterson, Helen Bradley Commemorative Exhibition, July - August 2000, no. 14.
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