Head of a woman wearing a colourful headdress (artwork)

A painting in Rita Simon's Traditional Linear style, produced by a female patient at a psychiatric day hospital. According to Rita Simon, the artwork was one in a sequence of paintings by the patient. Her initial artworks were abstract and she progressed from that to painting figures. The artwork was produced from the imagination, not from life

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

The date has been taken from notes made during conversations between Rita Simon and Wellcome staff between 1995 and 1997.

1958-1968

1 artwork Gouache on paper. 43 x 51 cm