Helen Layfield Bradley
'Oh' Cried The Aunts And Mrs Currie
Estimate: 8.000 - 12.000 GBP
Price realised: 24.500 GBP
Price realised: 24.500 GBP
Description
Helen Layfield Bradley (1900-1979)
'Oh' cried the Aunts and Mrs Currie
signed with a fly (lower left), signed, inscribed and dated 'Oh, cried the Aunts and Mrs Currie ... as Miss Carter/(who wore pink) paused at the door before entering./She was wearing a very smart outfit copied/from the dress and hat worn by Queen Alexandra,/and, of course, not in Queen Alexandra's lovely/Parma Violet, Miss Carter enjoyed her Pinks, but/her tiny hat was so very smart when/everyone else wore huge ones. She did not/stay to tea, and as soon as she left Mrs Currie/cried 'Well now did you see her Nose. I am/sure she had powdered it with rice flour and what do you make of that! I know/what she's up to, she's out to catch a MAN'/and the year was 1908./Helen Layfield Bradley/1968' (on a label attached to the backboard)
oil on canvas-board
22 x 15¾ in. (55.8 x 40 cm.)
'Oh' cried the Aunts and Mrs Currie
signed with a fly (lower left), signed, inscribed and dated 'Oh, cried the Aunts and Mrs Currie ... as Miss Carter/(who wore pink) paused at the door before entering./She was wearing a very smart outfit copied/from the dress and hat worn by Queen Alexandra,/and, of course, not in Queen Alexandra's lovely/Parma Violet, Miss Carter enjoyed her Pinks, but/her tiny hat was so very smart when/everyone else wore huge ones. She did not/stay to tea, and as soon as she left Mrs Currie/cried 'Well now did you see her Nose. I am/sure she had powdered it with rice flour and what do you make of that! I know/what she's up to, she's out to catch a MAN'/and the year was 1908./Helen Layfield Bradley/1968' (on a label attached to the backboard)
oil on canvas-board
22 x 15¾ in. (55.8 x 40 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 December 2007. In the Twentieth Century British Art auction, the work 'Oh' Cried The Aunts And Mrs Currie sold for GBP 24,500.00 (€ 33,291.34) - well above the upper estimate of GBP 12,000.00. 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 Dezember 2007 bei Christies in London einen unerwartet hohen Preis. In der Auktion Twentieth Century British Art wurde die Arbeit 'Oh' Cried The Aunts And Mrs Currie für GBP 24.500,00 (€ 33.291,34) versteigert – und damit weit über dem oberen Schätzpreis von GBP 12.000,00. 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.
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