Series - Cats in Art - 2

I bring together here works including or representing cats, without chronology, just works that please me or surprise me.

Poster by Kelfkens, 1960s

Pierre Bonnard, The Demanding Cat, 1912. Here is what my grandfather, Aimé Maeght, said of Bonnard: "For me, Bonnard is “the” painter. In the long discussions I had with him, it is he who was the basis of my evolution and the opening of my mind to living art, without Bonnard, I would perhaps have continued like the other dealers. Bonnard arrived at the moment in my life when I wanted. to make this big leap towards modern art and it was he, first through his painting and through the many reflections and numerous discussions that we had together, who made me understand what modern art could be ."

He will definitely always surprise us, with his freedom, his technicality, his subjects, his modernity and of course his genius for composition. We can understand that the subject, as he said, did not interest him, that it is only a pretext for the composition, for the balance of the composition. Who is that ? But Pierre Bonnard, of course! No, of a dog (or cat), how beautiful it is… Pierre Bonnard, Cats playing, 1904.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Cat, 1882.

1966 Cat, Mobile by Alexander Calder

Théophile Alexandre Steinlen, Summer, Cat on a Balustrade, 1909.

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, The Artist, 1910.

Léonard Foujita, Cat designer, 1927.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, “Young Girl with a Cat” from 1876.

Pablo Picasso, Cat Devouring a Bird, 1939.

Pablo Picasso, Study of a Cat, 1946.

Collage by Jacques Prévert. This is the lane of Saint-Paul which leads up to the church, as I knew it, minus the characters pasted by Prévert, of course. On the right, it was an antique shop, on the left, a wonderful woman made mohair shawls in assortments of colors that would make Yves Saint Laurent pale. In the evening, when the beautiful customers of the Colombe d'Or were shivering, Titine Roux sent the kids to buy the fluffy wool. We walked around, 500 franc Molière notes in hand, proud to have to choose the shades that would best match the South American jewelry and Balenciaga silks.

Kees van Dongen, Woman with a Cat, 1908

In the series of cats in the history of art, one of my favorites of the 20th century, Francis Picabia, 1953. He knew how to do anything! Francis Picabia, Cat, 1953.

Francis Picabia, The Cat, 1938.

Andy Warhol, "Sam" A Pink Cat (circa 1954)

Karel Appel, The Circus Suite, The Clown Cat, 1978.

A flamboyant cat from Walasse Ting.

Among the artists of the CoBrA movement, do not forget Corneille. Painter of color, women and often cats. Corneille, “Games between cat and bird,” 1994.

Aki Kuroda, “Love” (cat), 2019.

Alberto Giacometti, cat

Diego Giacometti "The Cat butler"

Théophile Alexandre Steinlen, Seated Abyssinian cat, between 1859 and 1923, bronze

Paul Klee, "Cat and Bird", 1928.

Here the bird seems to be flying not in front of the cat's forehead, but inside it, it is literally in its mind. Klee focuses on thinking. One of his goals as an artist was to “make secret visions visible.” I love the heart for the nose.

Suzanne Valadon, Raminou seated on a tablecloth, 1920

Hiro Ando, ​​Samurai Cat (1997) The streets of Tokyo and the world of Manga inspire the Japanese artist Hiro Ando who emerged in 1995 as an illustrator then as an artist with different media, painting, digital, sculpture and video. While his paintings depict the cityscape of Japan, Ando is known for his resin, bronze or porcelain cats such as "Sumocat", "Big Samurai" and "Robocat" sometimes covered in diamonds, traditional Japanese designs or bright colors. The different incarnations of Ando's cats present a contemporary twist on the maneki-neko, the famous lucky cat.

1947 Young Girl with a Kitten by Lucien Freud

A creation of Studio Job, Cat Fight, 2014. Based in Antwerp, Studio Job is a creative duo founded more than ten years ago by Job Smeets and Nynke Tynagel. Their bronze works, often described as "neo-Gothic", are fun without being kitsch.

And There you go !

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