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United Kingdom ( 1860 - 1939 ) - Artworks Wikipedia® - Louis William Wain
Christie's / Jul 18, 2012
€991.57 - €1,487.36
€2,710.44
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Louis William Wain - The Fire Brigade
Original
Other WORKS AT AUCTIONDescription:
LOUIS WILLIAM WAIN (1860-1939)
THE FIRE BRIGADE
signed, pen and ink, 18.5 x 28cm
Two or three tiny spots of foxing and the odd area of mild staining but in really excellent condition not previously offered for sale and almost certainly acquired from the artist by Edgar Woollatt thence by descent
Louis William Wain - I Am Siamese If You Please
Original -
Auction:
Mallams -
Dec 12, 2012- Oxford
Lot number:
572
Other WORKS AT AUCTIONDescription:
Lot 572
Lot 572 Description
Louis Wain (British, 1860-1939)
'I am Siamese if you please'
signed, pen, ink and body colour
7" x 10".
Provenance:
with Chris Beetles Limited, London.
Exhibited:
York City Art Gallery, York Cats! Exhibition of the work of Louis Wain, 1986, no. 6.
Sold for £1,550
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Louis William Wain - The Alligator And The Bears
Original
Auction:
Christie's -
Dec 11, 2012- London
Lot number:
1775
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Louis William Wain (1860-1939)
The alligator and the bears
signed 'Louis Wain.' (lower left) and inscribed '"you shall not go down/to the water", said/the Alligator, "and the bears/were so thirsty." and were obliged to go to/bed thirsty' (lower centre)
pencil and pen and black ink, unframed
14 1/8 x 11 in. (35.9 x 28 cm.)
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 14 December 2005, lot 276.
Louis William Wain - The Cat Who Got The Cream
Original
Auction:
Christie's -
Jul 18, 2012- London
Lot number:
736
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Louis William Wain (1860-1939)
The cat who got the cream
signed 'Louis Wain' (lower left)
pencil, watercolour and bodycolour
7 x 9 in. (17.8 x 22.8 cm.)
Louis William Wain (1860-1939)
'Louis Wain invented a cat style, a cat society, a whole cat world'. These words by H.G. Wells, broadcast in 1925, sum up the work of the artist who has become the country's most iconic painter of cats. Born in 1860, Wain rose to prominence in his 40s and at the height of his career painted up to 600 cat pictures a year. His working life also coincided with the great age of the postcard, and this method of disseminating his art helped establish Wain as one of the most recognisable artists of the early 20th century.
His early work depicts cats of the glamorous Edwardian world at play, in that golden era before the catastrophy of the First World War. Not only did the war bring an end to the carefree nature of high society, it also brought financial difficulty for Wain and this may have contributed to the rapid onset of schizophrenia. In 1924 he was certified insane and admitted to Springfield Hospital, a paupers' asylum, where he was discovered a year later. Through a public appeal, and the intervention of many artists and writers as well as the Prime Minister, Wain was transferred to Bethlem Hospital in 1925 and five years later to Napsbury Hospital in Hertfordshire where he remained until his death in 1939. Throughout this period Wain continued his painting, and these later works reveal his schizophrenic illness, with highly coloured, and increasingly frenetic, cats, often with curious buildings in the background, partly inspired by his mental asylums.
Louis William Wain - Shortears Then Began To Sing Solo
Original 1886
Auction:
Lawrences -
Jan 20, 2012- Crewkerne
Lot number:
1527
Other WORKS AT AUCTIONDescription:
LOUIS WAIN (1860-1939)
SHORTEARS THEN BEGAN TO SING SOLO. THEN ALL THE CATS JOINED AND SUNG THE CHORUS TO MADAM'S SATISFACTION
Signed, inscribed with title in margin, pen and black ink with wash
Image 18.5 x 23cm.
Illustrated: Madam Tabby's Establishment by Caroline Hughes ("Kari"), 1886. This is one of six illustrations by Wain for the book. It was one of the first books that Wain illustrated.
Estimate: 1000-1500