Tuberculosis patient 10, man in a chair (artwork)

Date:
1940s
Reference:
PP/RSI/B/1/5/9
Part of:
Rita Simon Collection
  • Archives and manuscripts

About this work

Description

1 artwork identified by Rita Simon's pseudonym "Tuberculosis Patient 10" which shows a figure seated in a chair. The figure is not fully represented but focuses on the limbs, head and neck only.

The title of the artwork was supplied by the cataloguer for identification purposes.

Rita Simon classified the artwork as Archaic Linear.

Publication/Creation

1940s

Physical description

1 artwork Pencil on paper, 27.7 x 37.8 cm.

Biographical note

Rita Simon described this patient as: "A rather marvellous, regressed patient. An educated civil servant, with terrible feelings of weakness and dying."

This quote is taken from conversations between Rita Simon and Wellcome staff between 1995 and 1997.

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