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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mar 20, 2025 | Christie's | London | Modern British and Irish Art Day Sale | 162 | $****** - ****** | On Friday Evening Father Brought Eliza Home | |||
Oct 4, 1995 | Sotheby's | London | Modern British Paintings, Drawings & Sculpture | 173 | $****** - ****** | Friday evening father brought Eliza home |
paintings
50.8 x 61 cm (20 x 24 in)
oil on canvas laid on board
signed with a fly (lower left), signed again, inscribed and dated "On Friday Evening Father brought Eliza home -/and there she stood waiting to be admired./Father called. "Come and see what i"ve got./Now Jane, what do you think of Eliza"./"She beautiful", said Mother, "but Frederick,/can you drive her". "Of course", said Father,/"you drive her just like a horse", and tomorrow/morning we"ll all go to Huddersfield"./On the opposite side of the road was Miss Carter/(who wore Pink) pretending not to see us. She is/saying "Good Evening" to Miss Maitland & her/mother. I could see Willie Murgatroyd & his/sister Annie & the Baby bringing home the shopping/from the Store. He always carried the flour/tied in a calico square on his head & the/year was 1908./Helen Layfield Bradley. 1967." (on the artist"s label attached to the reverse)
with Mercury Gallery, London, where purchased by Mrs M.S. Mazur, California, in July 1967.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby"s, London, 4 October 1995, lot 173.
Preston, Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Helen Bradley: Paintings of a Victorian Childhood, 1996, no. 7.
London, W.H. Patterson, Helen Bradley: Commemorative Exhibition, July - August 2000, no. 33.
HELEN BRADLEY (1900-1979)
On Friday Evening Father Brought Eliza Home
signed with a fly (lower left), signed again, inscribed and dated "On Friday Evening Father brought Eliza home -/and there she stood waiting to be admired./Father called. "Come and see what i"ve got./Now Jane, what do you think of Eliza"./"She beautiful", said Mother, "but Frederick,/can you drive her". "Of course", said Father,/"you drive her just like a horse", and tomorrow/morning we"ll all go to Huddersfield"./On the opposite side of the road was Miss Carter/(who wore Pink) pretending not to see us. She is/saying "Good Evening" to Miss Maitland & her/mother. I could see Willie Murgatroyd & his/sister Annie & the Baby bringing home the shopping/from the Store. He always carried the flour/tied in a calico square on his head & the/year was 1908./Helen Layfield Bradley. 1967." (on the artist"s label attached to the reverse)
oil on canvas laid on board
20 x 24 in. (50.8 x 61 cm.)
Painted in 1967.
