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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Oct 19, 2023 | Christie's | London | Modern British and Irish Art Day Sale | 227 | $****** - ****** | Oh, What a Pity it's Starting to Snow | |||
Sep 30, 1999 | Sotheby's | London | Modern British & Irish Paintings, Drawings & Sculpture | 208 | $****** - ****** | Oh, what a pity it's starting to snow |
paintings
61 x 71.1 cm (24 x 28 in)
signed with a fly (lower left) signed again, inscribed and dated "Oh what a pity it"s starting to Snow ... which/meant that George & I & the dogs, Gyp & Barney would/miss our afternoon walk to the end of Spring/Lane to the Cemetery to look at the little white/angel ) think we home
with Mercury Gallery, London, where purchased by Mrs S. Oppenheim, M.P., in October 1971.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby"s, London, 30 September 1999, lot 208.
with MacConnal-Mason, London, where purchased by the present owner.
HELEN BRADLEY (1900-1979)
Oh, What a Pity it"s Starting to Snow
signed with a fly (lower left), signed again, inscribed and dated "Oh what a pity it"s starting to Snow ... which/meant that George & I & the dogs, Gyp & Barney would/miss our afternoon walk to the end of Spring/Lane to the Cemetery to look at the little white/angel. "Dear me" said Miss Carter (who wore Pink)/I think we"d better go home. Aunt Frances & Aunt/Charlotte offered to lend her an umbrella, but/Mr. Taylor (the Bank Manager) very gallantly offered/her his. "You must all call in for a cup of/Tea", said Mother, "and here"s our New Curate and/dear Mrs Maitland and Emily, do please come/also" but George & I had seen Mrs Murgatroyd/with Willie & Annie. They had pea shooters and a/bag of peas each, but it wasn"t the pea shooters which/made George cry. It was Willie saying he could hear/Billy Murphy"s Tiger breathing quite close & it would/eat George up. "Nothing of the sort" said Grandma & Mrs/Murgatroyd boxed Willie"s ears and the year was 1906/Helen Layfield Bradley 1971." (on a label attached to the reverse)
oil on canvas laid on board
24 x 28 in. (61 x 71.2 cm.)
Painted in 1971.
