Helen Bradley (1900-1979), Run quickly and catch George he will fall and bump his head cried mother. I was still wearing my boy's boots which stopped me from running fast, so George tripped over his clogs and a huge lump came on his forehead. Mother tied a penny on it, signed with a fly symbol, sepia watercolour, 23 x 26cm.; 9 x 10.25in. * Bradley was born in 1900 in Lees a small town near Oldham and attended the local art school at Oldham where her main interests were designing jewellery and embroidery. She had not intended to be a professional painter and married a textile designer and settled into life as a house wife and mother of two children. When she was sixty-five she began to paint images of her childhood in Lancashire to illustrated the wonderfully woven stories and reminiscences she told her grandchildren. Her paintings were greatly admired and several exhibitions of her work were held in the 1960s and 1970s. L. S. Lowry was a particular admirer of her naive style of painting which is both powerfully nostalgic and sensitive. It has been suggested that her style derives from early Persian and Moghul art. Artists' Resale Right (droit de suite) may apply to this lot.