Series - Cats in Art - 1
I bring together here works including or representing cats, without chronology, just works that please me or surprise me.
Pablo Picasso, Woman with a Cat, 1900
Charles Camoin, Girl with a Cat, 1904
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Girl with a Cat, 1910
Henri Matisse, Girl with a Black Cat (Matisse's daughter Marguerite), 1910
Suzanne Valadon, Raminou, 1919
Niki de Saint Phalle (1930-2002), Cat vase, 1986
Child with a Cat, Julie Manet, by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1887.
Eugène Delacroix, for cat fans, I found this little wonder so amusing! A cat writing the date with a brush, 1831.
Henriëtte Ronner, Cat, painted around 1878.
Unmissable Saul Steinberg and his cats who have often appeared on the cover of the NewYorker! He exhibited at my grandfather's house. Very inspiring for Sempé. All the humor of Saul Steinberg.
Woman with a Cat, painted in 1864 by Gustave Courbet (1819-1877).
Courbet was the leading exponent of realism in 19th-century French painting. His work contrasts with the classicism of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres and the romanticism of Eugène Delacroix. He developed the use of the palette knife to create impasto surfaces, as if to emphasize his disdain for the refined finish of academic practice.
Courbet was born in Ornans in eastern France and received his early training in Besançon. In Paris from 1840, he mainly studied Dutch and Venetian paintings at the Louvre. He exhibited at the Salon of 1844.
From the 1850s, he traveled extensively in France. He was then imprisoned for his prominent role in the Commune in 1871 - as director of museums, he was held responsible for the destruction of the Place Vendôme column. The famous “Still Life with Apples and Pomegranate” exhibited at the National Gallery in London was painted in prison. His last years were spent in exile in Switzerland.
Franz Marc, The White Cat, 1912.
Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen 1859 - 1923.
This curiosity, “Young woman with a cat” because signed by two artists: Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita AND Kees van Dongen, 1929.
Tsuguharu Foujita, Chat Blanc, Fond Rouge, 1926. Or should I rather write Léonard Foujita since in 1959, he converted to Catholicism and took the baptismal first name of Léonard, in honor of Blessed Léonard Kimura, one of the martyrs of Japan. The first name also evokes the love he has for the art of Leonardo da Vinci. What an artist and what a personality: fantastic, daring, extraordinary, eccentric…
Marc Chagall, The Fables of La Fontaine - The Cat and the Two Sparrows ( 1927–1930).
For my cats series, this little marvel, painted in 1901, by an artist of just 20 years old, yet what maturity, what freedom! Oh yes, I forgot, his name is Picasso, obviously. Masterpiece !
Picasso, “Wounded Bird and Cat”, 1939.
Pierre Alechinsky, The Cat and the Rooster, 1946.
“The Cat and the Bird” by Jacques Prévert
A village listens desolate
The song of a wounded bird
It's the only bird in the village
And he's the only cat in the village
Who half devoured it
And the bird stops singing
And the cat stops purring
And lick their snouts
And the village made of the bird
A wonderful funeral
And the cat who is invited
Walk behind the little straw coffin
Where the dead bird lies
Carried by a little girl
Who doesn't stop crying
If I had known that it would hurt you so much
Said the cat to him
I would have eaten it whole
And then I would have told you
That I had seen it fly away
Fly to the ends of the world
There where it's so far
That we never come back
You would have had less sorrow
Just sadness and regret
You should never do things by halves
Cats by Utagawa Kuniyoshi, one raises its right paw, it brings good luck.
Jean Cocteau, Cat, 1959.
Child with a Cat, Julie Manet, by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1887.
Joan Miró, The Little Cat, 1951.
Miró, Woman and Cat, 1959.
Kazuaki Horitomo is a Japanese artist and tattoo artist who practices his talents in California. ... On one side, the traditional Japanese tattoo, on the other the figure of the cat. Mix the two, sprinkle with a touch of ukiyo-e (the art of Japanese printmaking) and you have traditional moose cat tattoos.
The Chinese, Walasse Ting, whose name means Flower Thief, painted, in his most fertile period, after his abstract experiments, cats of all colors...
Walasse Ting, "Blue Cats, Yellow Eyes", (1929 - 2010)
Corneille, China Suite IV, 2004.
For my cats series, here's one that looks very bad-tempered to me, painted by Aki Kuroda in 2004.
1970-71 Mr. and Mrs. Clark and Percy by David Hockney
And There you go !
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