Helen Bradley
Wistfully the Young Sister Looked Beyond Her Garden
Estimate: 500 - 700 GBP
Price realised: 768 GBP
Price realised: 768 GBP
Description
Helen Bradley (British, 1900-1979)
Wistfully the Young Sister Looked Beyond Her Garden
signed and dated 'Helen Layfield Bradley/1955' (lower left); further signed, dated and inscribed 'Wistfully the young sister looked beyond/her garden, out to the fields and the/distant blue hills, out into a world/she would never know - "For you/cannot go, you must stay with/me and guard our Home", said the/Old Sister, "Home", sighed the/young one, "Out there are citys/and perhaps Love" and she sighed/again, and again for Love, for Love/from the tale of two sisters living in a/lonely Irish Castle/Helen Layfield Bradley/Painted about 1953' (on Artist's label attached to backboard)
watercolour and gouache on paper
34 x 29.5cm (13 3/8 x 11 5/8in).
together with two further works on paper, Once Upon a Time There Lived Two Sisters and 'What is Light' She Said 'What is Colour and What is the Moon', by the same hand
(3)
The Artist, from whom acquired by the previous owner | Acquired from the above by the present owner | Private Collection, U.K.
Wistfully the Young Sister Looked Beyond Her Garden
signed and dated 'Helen Layfield Bradley/1955' (lower left); further signed, dated and inscribed 'Wistfully the young sister looked beyond/her garden, out to the fields and the/distant blue hills, out into a world/she would never know - "For you/cannot go, you must stay with/me and guard our Home", said the/Old Sister, "Home", sighed the/young one, "Out there are citys/and perhaps Love" and she sighed/again, and again for Love, for Love/from the tale of two sisters living in a/lonely Irish Castle/Helen Layfield Bradley/Painted about 1953' (on Artist's label attached to backboard)
watercolour and gouache on paper
34 x 29.5cm (13 3/8 x 11 5/8in).
together with two further works on paper, Once Upon a Time There Lived Two Sisters and 'What is Light' She Said 'What is Colour and What is the Moon', by the same hand
(3)
The Artist, from whom acquired by the previous owner | Acquired from the above by the present owner | Private Collection, U.K.
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