Louis Wain Fact #46:
At one of his last spells of the odd dreams and fixations that permeated his childhood, in 1974 he finally found solace in simple stories detailing the lives of the Native Americans. It impacted him and made him “A child again, roaming the parks, trying to follow tracks over the grass, just as the Indians did.”
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The Eight 'Kaleidoscope' pictures on loan from the Bethlem Royal Hospital, catalogued by Patricia Allderidge.
General note: These pictures have been shown together in one amount for many years and were presumably arranged like this by Dr Maclay. Although it is known that he found 'some' pictures by Louis Wain in a shop in Camden Hill it is not certain how many of these were included, and nothing is known of their origin or when any of them were painted. The order in which they are seen here is entirely artificial.
102. CAT PATTERN WITH SAUCER EYES
Coloured pencils on paper
9" x 6 7/8"