Helen Layfield Bradley
A Walk in the Park
Estimate: 15.000 - 20.000 GBP
Price realised: 46.100 GBP
Price realised: 46.100 GBP
Description
Helen Layfield Bradley (1900-1979)
A Walk in the Park
signed 'HELEN BRADLEY' and with a fly (lower right), inscribed 'This weekend Father was away visiting Grandpa Blackford/so Mother, George and I went round to have our Sunday/Dinner with Grandma, Aunt Mary and Aunt Frances,/Aunt Mary loved cooking, and had just put on a huge/Yorkshire Pudding in the oven, said, "Goodness, I've cooked/an enormous piece of Beef, and all those Baked Potatoes,/we'll never eat it all, you and George get your hats on,/and go and ask Miss Carter (who wore Pink) if she'll come to/Dinner and bring Mr Taylor also". So they came and we had/a delightful meal. Then everyone washed up quickly and/Mother said, "It's Sunday afternoon, let us go for a walk in/the Park", It was a delightful Sunday afternoon, it was/quiet, except for some boys playing with their hoops./The keeper soon sent them home, while we made our/way to the café, where George and I had a glass of/lemonade whilst the grown ups had tea, then back to/Grandma's for sandwiches and Aunt Mary's shortbread/
oil on board
16 x 17 in. (40.6 x 43.2 cm.)
A Walk in the Park
signed 'HELEN BRADLEY' and with a fly (lower right), inscribed 'This weekend Father was away visiting Grandpa Blackford/so Mother, George and I went round to have our Sunday/Dinner with Grandma, Aunt Mary and Aunt Frances,/Aunt Mary loved cooking, and had just put on a huge/Yorkshire Pudding in the oven, said, "Goodness, I've cooked/an enormous piece of Beef, and all those Baked Potatoes,/we'll never eat it all, you and George get your hats on,/and go and ask Miss Carter (who wore Pink) if she'll come to/Dinner and bring Mr Taylor also". So they came and we had/a delightful meal. Then everyone washed up quickly and/Mother said, "It's Sunday afternoon, let us go for a walk in/the Park", It was a delightful Sunday afternoon, it was/quiet, except for some boys playing with their hoops./The keeper soon sent them home, while we made our/way to the café, where George and I had a glass of/lemonade whilst the grown ups had tea, then back to/Grandma's for sandwiches and Aunt Mary's shortbread/
oil on board
16 x 17 in. (40.6 x 43.2 cm.)
Upper estimate price exceeded by more than 100%
This artwork by Helen Layfield Bradley achieved an unexpectedly high price at Christies in London in November 2007. In the 20th Century British Art auction, the work A Walk in the Park sold for GBP 46,100.00 (€ 64,551.93) - well above the upper estimate of GBP 20,000.00. However, buyers have had to dig much deeper into their pockets for other works by Helen Layfield Bradley - we have observed the highest auction result to date for the work Our First Morning in Blackpool, which sold at auction in November 2007 for GBP 94,100.00 (€ 131,764.35).
Oberer Schätzpreis um mehr als 100% übertroffen
Dieses Kunstwerk von Helen Layfield Bradley erzielte im November 2007 bei Christies in London einen unerwartet hohen Preis. In der Auktion 20th Century British Art wurde die Arbeit A Walk in the Park für GBP 46.100,00 (€ 64.551,93) versteigert – und damit weit über dem oberen Schätzpreis von GBP 20.000,00. Für andere Arbeiten von Helen Layfield Bradley mussten die Käufer allerdings auch schon deutlich tiefer in die Tasche greifen – das bisher höchste Auktionsergebnis haben wir für die Arbeit Our First Morning in Blackpool beobachtet, die im November 2007 für GBP 94.100,00 (€ 131.764,35) versteigert wurde.
Helen Layfield Bradley - Auction history
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