Tagged: cats in paintings

Jules Leroy Playful Kittens

Jules Leroy Playful Kittens

Jules Le Roy was a French artist, a painter. He was born in 1856 and died aged 66 in 1922. He painted in oils and watercolors and specialized in figures of animals preferring cats...

Louis Wain Illustrations

Who was Louis William Wain?

Louis William Wain (1860-1939) was a talented artist who is famous for his anthropomorphic cats which were regularly clothed and which were often found on greeting cards and in satirical illustrations. He was a...

The Cat Transformed into a Woman c.1928-31-1947 by Marc Chagall 1887-1985

Transforming your cat into a woman

Although Wikipedia makes no mention whatsoever of Marc Chagall’s love of cats, they play a major part in many of his paintings. They are shown as companions and symbolic of women and domesticity according...

Girl with a kitten by Lucian Freud

Girl with a Kitten by Lucian Freud

From time to time I like to write about cats in paintings. This is one by Lucian Freud which he completed between 1948 and 1949. The painting shows Kitty Garman (1926-2011) holding a cat....


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