Helen Bradley

Helen Bradley

1900 - 1979

Fred Walmsley's Pierrots, Blackpool

signed HELEN BRADLEY and with a fly insignia (lower right); also signed Helen Layfield Bradley, dated 1972 and inscribed "Oh, the tide is in''. George and I had/so looked forward to playing on the Sands on/our final day at Blackpool, but Mother said/'Never mind, we'll go on the Pier and see if/Fred Walmsleys Pierrots are there,/and there they were just beginning their/show with a new song. It was:/In the year nineteen hundred and nine/''We shall all have a jolly fine time./for the World, you see/will belong to me/in the year nineteen hundred and nine!/How I glowed, how I felt something/wonderful was going to happen, and in/a hope of expectancy I ate one of Pyes Ices/while Mother, the Aunts and Grandma/drank a cup of Sandows Cocoa and the year/was 1908. (on the artist's label attached to the backboard)

watercolour and gouache on paper

unframed: 37.5 by 56 cm. 14¾ by 22 in.

framed: 60.5 by 78.5 cm. 23¾ by 31 in.

Executed in 1972.