For Sale (artwork)

Date:
1977-1978
Reference:
PP/RSI/B/1/4/5/15
Part of:
Rita Simon Collection
  • Archives and manuscripts

About this work

Description

An artwork by Geriatric/Physical illness patient 9 (depressed polyarthritic) depicting two houses in a landscape, one "for sale", the other "sold". "She was a down-to-earth, sensible old lady, preparing for death. This is symbolism of death" (Rita Simon).

Reproduced in Symbolic Images in Art As TherapyFig 7.8, page106.

The title has been taken from the caption used in Rita Simon's publication.

The information is taken from conversations between Rita Simon and Wellcome staff between 1995 and 1997, and Rita Simon's book Symbolic Images in Art As Therapy, page106.

Rita Simon classified this artwork as Traditional Linear.

Publication/Creation

1977-1978

Physical description

1 artwork Bodycolour and felt pens. 27 x 42 cm

Where to find it

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