Psychiatric patient 19 - mental handicap, sailing boat on the sea with people and fish (artwork)

Date:
1980
Reference:
PP/RSI/B/1/2/9
Part of:
Rita Simon Collection
  • Archives and manuscripts

About this work

Description

A painting by psychiatric patient 19.

The title has been supplied by the cataloguer for identification purposes.

Rita Simon's style classification: Linear Transition

Publication/Creation

1980

Physical description

1 artwork Bodycolour on paper, 42 x 60 cm

Biographical note

A woman aged about 60 with mental health problems. She was able to work and she lived alone, coping well. The patient worked alongside psychiatric patient 18 (PP/RSI/B/1/2/8) whom she did not get on with. This information is taken from conversations between Rita Simon and Wellcome staff between 1995 and 1997.

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