The Book, Cat, & Cat Book Lovers Almanac

of historical trivia regarding books, cats, and other animals. Actually this blog has evolved so that it is described better as a blog about cats in history and culture. And we take as a theme the advice of Aldous Huxley: If you want to be a writer, get some cats. Don't forget to see the archived articles linked at the bottom of the page.

October 25, 2019

October 25, 1881

Picasso, (October 25, 1881 to April 8, 1973) it turns out, liked his own art so much that a huge collection was found after his death. A trove that was unsuspected by anyone. According to a article in The Guardian, with lots of dishy detail, and dated October 16, 2014:

He kept a bank vault in Paris, filled with paintings, prints, sculptures, and even poetry.....
No one had known the scale and substance of this private dimension to Picasso’s genius. It was not just the stupefying quantity of works he kept, but how and why he kept them, which had no equivalent in art. As early as 1932, when he still had four decades of creativity ahead, Picasso worked closely with the Greek critic Christian Zervos on the first volume of what was to become a 33-volume catalogue raisonnĂ© of his output....


I am not sure if the painting below belongs to a museum or not. It is dated October 23, 1962.
Nature morte avec chat et homard (Still life with cat and lobster).



Nature morte avec chat et homard is one of several cat paintings Picasso did. None of his cats appear distorted the way his pictures of people sometimes do. 

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