Cottages for Sale
- Date:
- 1977-1978
- Reference:
- PP/RSI/B/1/4/5/16
- Part of:
- Rita Simon Collection
- Archives and manuscripts
About this work
Description
An artwork by Geriatric/Physical illness patient 9 (depressed polyarthritic) depicting a row of cottages "for sale", with one big roof over all of them. "This was the last one, painted just before she died. It tells a story. Asked about the big roof, she replied with the quotation 'In my father's house are many mansions'"(Rita Simon).
Reproduced in Symbolic Images in Art As TherapyFig 7.9, page107.
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, page107.
Rita Simon classified this artwork as Traditional Linear.
Publication/Creation
1977-1978
Physical description
1 artwork Bodycolour and felt pens. 30 x 42 cm
Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed stores