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Helen Bradley (British, 1900-1979) Just Round the Corner is Mumps Station 33.2 x 53.6 cm. (13 x 21 1/8 in.) including the painted frame image 1
Helen Bradley (British, 1900-1979) Just Round the Corner is Mumps Station 33.2 x 53.6 cm. (13 x 21 1/8 in.) including the painted frame image 2
Lot 66AR

Helen Bradley
(British, 1900-1979)
Just Round the Corner is Mumps Station 33.2 x 53.6 cm. (13 x 21 1/8 in.) including the painted frame

19 June 2024, 15:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £28,160 inc. premium

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Helen Bradley (British, 1900-1979)

Just Round the Corner is Mumps Station
signed 'HELEN BRADLEY' and with fly insignia (lower left) and titled 'Just round the corner is Mumps/Station and in no time our cabs will/be there, with Father and Mr Taylor (The Bank/Manager) getting our luggage down and/sorting it all out. Father always got/very cross saying that he couldn't/understand why we had to take so/much stuff away with us. He didn't/dare to grumble at Grandma or the/aunts and certainly not at Mr Maitland/or Miss Carter, (who wore pink) so instead./poor Mother had to put up with his/bad temper, but soon we would all/be on the train, and the train would/be speeding on towards Blackpool and/dear Grandpa and the year was 1906.' (on an artist's label attached to the backboard)
oil on board, in an artist's painted frame
33.2 x 53.6 cm. (13 x 21 1/8 in.) including the painted frame

Footnotes

Provenance
Private Collection, U.K.

Literature
Helen Bradley, The Queen who Came to Tea, Jonathan Cape, London, 1978, p.25 (col.ill.)

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