Ingram Reid
Director
Lot 34AR
Helen Bradley(British, 1900-1979)Mother, George and I go to David Bromley's garden 40.3 x 30.2 cm. (15 7/8 x 11 7/8 in.)
19 November 2025, 15:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street£10,000 - £15,000
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Helen Bradley (British, 1900-1979)
Mother, George and I go to David Bromley's garden
signed with fly insignia (lower right); further signed and inscribed 'George & I and Grandma (+ Gyp + Barney) have/gone to David Bromley's Garden to/buy some sprouts, but before he/would serve us we always had to/listen to him telling us about the/mill chimneys which he considered/unsafe and how he just longed/to get them down. He was a puller/down of mill chimneys when he wasn't/growing things in his garden and the/year was 1906./Helen Layfield Bradley' (on an artist's label attached verso)
oil on board
40.3 x 30.2 cm. (15 7/8 x 11 7/8 in.)
signed with fly insignia (lower right); further signed and inscribed 'George & I and Grandma (+ Gyp + Barney) have/gone to David Bromley's Garden to/buy some sprouts, but before he/would serve us we always had to/listen to him telling us about the/mill chimneys which he considered/unsafe and how he just longed/to get them down. He was a puller/down of mill chimneys when he wasn't/growing things in his garden and the/year was 1906./Helen Layfield Bradley' (on an artist's label attached verso)
oil on board
40.3 x 30.2 cm. (15 7/8 x 11 7/8 in.)
Footnotes
Provenance
With Mercury Gallery, London, where acquired by
Mrs A. Samuel
Her sale; Christie's, London, 13 March 1981, lot 183 (as George and I and Grandma (& Gyp & Barney) have gone to David Bromley's Garden), where acquired by the present owner
Private Collection, U.K.