They say you’re either a ‘dog person’ or a ‘cat person.’ I’ve always fallen into the latter category, so I thought I would do a themed feature for this series of posts, covering a large time span through art history.
The time span of approximately five-hundred artworks in the series (in roughly chronological order) is close to five hundred years - from 1525 (Francesco d’Ubertino Verdito) to 1999 (Louise Bourgeois).
This is part 9, the final part of a 9-part series on Cats in Art. For earlier works see parts 1 - 8 also. Note: I have added portraits and dates of the artists where I was able to find them (some of the artists below have been featured in earlier posts).
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| Marc Chagall ( 1887 Vitebsk, Belarus - 1985 St. Paul de Vence, France ) |
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| Marc Chagall Man at Table 1911 © ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2016 |
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| Marc Chagall The Poet, or Half Past Three 1911-12 oil on canvas 146 x 197 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA © ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2016 |
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| Marc Chagall Paris Through the Window 1913 oil on canvas 136 x 141.9 cm Soloman R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City © ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2016 |
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| Marc Chagall Man with a Cat and Woman with a Child 1914 ink on paper 17.2 x 22.3 cm The State Tretakov Gallery, Moscow © ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2016 |
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| Marc Chagall Yellow Cat 1915 oil on board 47.6 x 45.1 cm Private Collection © ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2016 |
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| Marc Chagall The Cat and Two Sparrows 1925 © ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2016 |
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| Marc Chagall The Cat Transformed into a Woman 1928-31c etching, drypoint and oil on paper 29.5 x 24.1 cm Tate, London © ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2016 |
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| José Mongrell i Torrent ( 1870 Valncia, Spain -1937 Barcelona, Spain ) |
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| José Mongrell i Torrent Chica con Gatto 1920 oil on canvas 92 x 73 cm Private Collection |
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| Norbertine Bresslern-Roth Two Cats 1920s linocut print |
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| 1925 Norbertine Bresslern-Roth Angora Cat 1925 linocut print |
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| Norbertine Bresslern-Roth Black Cat 1925 woodcut print |
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| Norbertine Bresslern-Roth Young Cats 1944 linocut print |
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| Norbertine of Bresslern-Roth Siamese 1946 linocut print |
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| Fernand Léger c1916 ( 1881 Argentan, France -1955 Gif-su-Yvette, France ) |
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| Fernand Léger Woman with a Cat 1921 oil on canvas 13.5 x 89.5 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City |
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| Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Alte Frau mit Katze 1922 drypoint etching 26.3 x 19.9 cm (plate) |
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| Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Black Cat (Bobby) 1929 |
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| Lotte Laserstein ( 1898 Pr. Holland, Prussia -1993 Kalmar, Sweden ) |
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| Lotte Laserstein Self Portrait with a Cat 1928 oil on panel 61 x 51 cm Leicester Museums, UK |
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| Lotte Laserstein Girl with Cat 1932 33 oil on panel 70.3 x 55 cm |
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| Paul Klee ( 1879 Münchenbuchsee, Switzerland - 1940 Muralto, Switzerland ) |
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| Paul Klee Cat and Bird 1928 oil and ink on gessoed canvas, mounted on wood 38.1 x 53.2 cm Museum of Modern Art, New York City |
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| Duncan Grant ( 1885 Rothiemurchus, Scotland -1978 Aldermaston, England ) |
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| Duncan Grant The Cat, Opussyquinusque 1932c |
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| Balthus [ Balthasar Klossowski de Rola ] ( 1908 Paris - 2001 Rossinière, Switzerland ) |
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| Balthus Girl with Cat 1937 oil on board 87.6 x 77.5 cm Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| Frida Kahlo ( 1907 Coyoacán, Mexico - 1954 Coyoacán, Mexico ) |
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| Frida Kahlo Self Portrait With Necklace Of Thorns 1940 oil on canvas 49.5 x 63.5 cm Harry Ransom Humanities Research Centre Art Collection, University of Texas, Austin, Texas |
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| Pablo Picasso Dora Maar au Chat 1941 oil on canvas 128.3 x 95.3 cm Private Collection |
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| Victor Brauner ( 1903 Piatra Neamt, Romania - 1966 Paris ) |
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| Victor Brauner Rainbow 1943 oil on canvas |
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| Robert Colquhoun ( 1914 Kilmarnock, Scotland -1962 London ) |
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| Robert Colquhoun Woman with Leaping Cat 1945 oil on canvas 76.7 x 61 cm Tate, London |
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| Lucien Freud ( 1922 Berlin, Germany - 2011 London, UK ) |
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| Lucien Freud Girl with a Kitten 1947 oil on canvas 39.5 x 29.5 cm Private Collection |
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| Richard Lindner ( 1901 Hamburg, Germany -1978 New York City ) |
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| Richard Lindner Homage to a Cat 1952 oil on canvas 92.1 x 60.3 cm Tate, London © ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2016 |
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| Andy Warhol ( 1928 Pittsburgh, PA - 1987 New York City ) |
Part of a larger series:
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| Andy Warhol Brown Sam with Orange Eyes 1954c lithograph and watercolour 22 x 14 cm |
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| Andy Warhol Light Pink Sam with Red Eyes 1954c lithograph with watercolour 22 x 14 cm |
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| Andy Warhol Pink Sam with Pink Eyes 1954c lithograph with watercolour 22 x 14 cm |
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| Andy Warhol Pink Sam with Yellow Eyes 1954c lithograph with watercolour 22 x 14 cm |
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| Andy Warhol Red Sam with Purple Eyes 1954c lithograph with watercolour 22 x 14 cm |
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| Andy Warhol Sam 1954c lithograph on wove paper 35.6 x 25.4 cm |
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| Andy Warhol Yellow Sam with Red Eyes 1954c lithograph with watercolour 22 x 14 cm |
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| Gertrude Abercrombie ( 1909 Austin, Texas - 1977 Chicago, Illinois ) |
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| Gertrude Abercrombie The Stroll ( n.d. ) oil on fibre-board 69.8 x 88.9 cm SmithsonianAmerican Art Museum, Washington, DC |
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| 1957 Gertrude Abercrombie Black Cat 1957 oil on fibreboard 12.4 x 9.8 cm |
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| Otto Dix ( 1891 Gera, Germany - 1969 Singen, Germany ) |
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| Otto Dix Cat 959 colour lithograph on laid paper 44 x 58 cm |
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| Otto Dix Cat in the Poppy Field 1968 colour lithograph 56 x 45.5 cm |
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| James Lloyd ( 1905 Alsager, UK - 1974 ) Cat and Mouse 1967 gouache on board 38.1 x 53.3 cm Tate, London © The Estate of James Lloyd |
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| David Hockney ( 1937 Bradford, UK - ) |
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| David Hockney A Black Cat Leaping 1970 from "Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm" etching and aquatint 23.7 x 27.3 cm ( plate ) |
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| David Hockney Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy 1970-71 acrylic on canvas 213.4 x 304.8 cm Tate, London © David Hockney |
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| Elisabeth Frink 1974 ( 1930 Thurlow, Suffolk, UK -1993 Blandford Forum, Dorset, UK ) |
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| Elisabeth Frink Wild Cat 1970 lithograph on paper 51.9 x 66 cm Tate, London |
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| Louise Bourgeois ( 1911 Paris - 2010 New York City ) |
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| Louise Bourgeois The White Cat 1994 drypoint, etching and aquatint on paper 43.2 x 59.7 cm |
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| Louise Bourgeois The Angry Cat 1999 drypoint and etching 25.4 x 30.5 cm (image) |
