Two devils in a web.

[London], Autumn 1966.

1 drawing : oil pastel on paper ; 38 x 51 cm

Wellcome Collection also holds the Mary Barnes Archive, reference PP/MBA https://wellcomecollection.org/works/rpjx3pqx

For Joe (written in pastel on the reverse)

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Wellcome Collection 3316825i

Barnes, Mary & Berke, Joseph. (1971). Mary Barnes: two accounts of a journey through madness, page 185.

Exhibited in '20th Century Women' at The Gallery of Everything, London, 10 October 2021 - 14 November 2021.

Title provided by the artist.

Mentioned in Mary's Log book covering 1966, page 66: "Two devils. My mother and I in a web. This I did when feeling angry, after Joe had been and I had seen Noel. I gave it to Joe."

Painted while Mary Barnes lived in Kingsley Hall, London, an experimental therapeutic community founded by R.D. Laing.