Helen Bradley MBE 1900-1979

Oh Jane, How Wise you were to choose Black

Oil on Board
16 x 20 ins (40.64 x 50.80 cms)
Signed with Fly logo bottom left

Hand-written story on reverse reads:

Oh Jane, how wise you were to choose Black. Cried Aunt Mary and Aunt Frances while Miss Carter (who wore Pink) was, for once speechless. Black was just becoming fashionable for evening wear having always been reserved for funerals and mourning. Miss Taylor, who made all our best dresses really had excelled herself adding a tiny bustle at the back, just like Queen Alexandra's latest style, but, said mother, I feel terribly naked around my neck and it will mean I shall have to leave my chemise off and I'm sure be cold. Why Jane said Grandma waking up, you can have my Paisley shawl & the year was 1908.

Helen Layfield Bradley 1970.

Price on application

Provenance

The Artist
The Mercury Gallery, sold May 26th, 1970
Private Collection
MacConnal Mason, London
Private Collection
Clark Art
Private Collection

Exhibition History

The Mercury Gallery Cork Street, London, 1970

General Notes