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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jun 21, 2023 | Bonhams | London | Modern British & Irish Art | 69 | $****** - ****** | Great Aunt Jane Telling a Story | |||
Jun 4, 1999 | Christie's | London | 20th Century British Art | 262 | $****** - ****** | Great Aunt Jane telling a story |
paintings
33.3 x 24 cm (13.11 x 9.45 in)
oil on canvas board
signed "HELEN BRADLEY" and with fly insignia (lower left); titled "Gt Aunt Jane telling a Story" (on a studio label attached to the verso); inscribed "Oh look George, if Great Aunt Jane hasnt gone to/sleep again, just when she was getting to the/nicest part " me I/must have just dropped off, where was I", and she/
With W.H. Patterson, London, 1981
Sale; Christie"s, London, 4 June 1999, lot 262, where acquired by the present owner
Private Collection, U.K.
Helen Bradley, "In the beginning" said Great Aunt Jane , Jonathan Cape Ltd, London, 1975, p.3 (col.ill.)
Ina Taylor, Helen Bradley"s Lancashire , Halsgrove in association with Helen Bradley Prints Ltd, Tiverton and Bolton, 2002, p.82 (col.ill.) (as We Looked Forward to Tuesday )
Helen Bradley (British, 1900-1979)
Great Aunt Jane Telling a Story
signed "HELEN BRADLEY" and with fly insignia (lower left); titled "Gt Aunt Jane telling a Story" (on a studio label attached to the verso); inscribed "Oh look George, if Great Aunt Jane hasnt gone to/sleep again, just when she was getting to the/nicest part." She was telling us a most beautiful/story about God who has just come to live/quite near to her, in a shed on the lonely moor/near Harts Head Pike. Mother said, "Hush children/let Great Aunt Jane sleep, she"s getting very old./She"s only having a little cat-nap and will soon/waken"; so George and I sat very still and soon/she opened her eyes and said, "Dear me, children, I/must have just dropped off, where was I", and she/went on to tell us that God would order the "Thing"/which lived on the moors, and if it saw children, it would/bite them, I know God would say to it, "Be off with you",/and it would run over the hill to Mossley. When/we were going home down the lonely lane, George said that/he could hear it coming, but I wasnt afraid because I/knew God was near and would look after me, and the year was/1906." (on an artist"s label attached to the verso)
oil on canvas board
33.3 x 24 cm. (13 1/8 x 9 3/8 in.)
