Heike Bauerさんのイラストまとめ

On the subject of dachshunds here’s Lotte Laserstein’s wonderful ‘Maxi’ from 1966 when Laserstein had settled in Sweden, having fled Nazi Germany in 1937 and remaining in her new home until her death in 1993.

It’s been a long week and there’s a long day ahead still so here’s a wonderful detail from Renoir’s ‘Child with Cat’ (1887), a portrait of Julie Manet (the niece of Édouard Manet) holding this blissed out little feline. @MuseeOrsay

‘A Dove Has Spread Her Wings And Asks for Peace’ by the famous Ukrainian artists Maria Prymachenko, 1982. According to reports, a few days ago Russian invaders destroyed the Ivankiv Historical and Local History Museum north of Kyiv including its collection of Prymachenko’s work.

I have not posted an Elizabeth Blackadder cat for a while so here’s the gorgeous Toby, painted in 2003. Happy weekend!

‘Sleeping Strof’ by Portuguese artist José Escada, 1977. Now @FCGulbenkian. Escada is perhaps most famous for his complex, abstracted (human) figures. I only just discovered his wonderful dog paintings!

Nelumbium speciosum (the sacred lotus) in Java by Victorian botanist Marianne North @kewgardens. North travelled across Asia, South Africa & South America. Her brother-in-law, literary critic John Addington Symonds, co-wrote Sexual Inversion, 1st English study of homosexuality

Saddened to hear of the death of the great Scottish artist Elizabeth Blackaddar, a wonderful painter of flowers and cats. Here’s ‘Tortoiseshell Cat, Lilies and Iris’, 1984.

‘The Cat, Opussyquinusque’ by Duncan Grant, c1932. Bloomsbury Group member Grant was a great cat lover, painting & drawing many of them. One of his pictures hangs @birkbeck_arts, housed in a former home of Virginia Woolf, tho sadly it is not of a cat #Caturday #modernism

In my own experience, cats love the warmth of kitchens. Apparently the ‘kitchen cat’ has a long history. Here’s a lovely illustration from the Tacuinum Sanitatis, a treatise on health originally published in Arabic in the c11th and translated into Latin in the c14th.

Thanks to ⁦@dickon_edwards⁩ I’m finally reading Shola von Reinhold’s Lote, a marvel published by ⁦@JacarandaBooks⁩ and must read for anyone interested in queer & literary history, black modernism and the affective aesthetic pull of the past. Amongst many other things.