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  The first comprehensive exhibition of Wain’s work was held at the Victoria and Albert museum in London in 1972 and since then Louis Wain has steadily become more fashionable, and collected worldwide. This new biography will show many images for the first time ever, amongst 300 plates of richness and variety, all of which are originated faithfully from the original artwork. Louis Wain who was born in 1860, was a shy and eccentric personality who became famous by the age of 40 and at his most productive, painted 600 cat pictures a year, and published his celebrated Louis Wain Annuals between 1901 and 1914. His financial difficulties, post war, contributed to a rapid decline into schizophrenia as Wain became isolated and unmanageable. In 1924 he was certified insane and admitted to Springfield hospital. Briefly forgotten he was discovered in this pauper’s asylum a year later and following an appeal involving many writers and artists, and the intervention of the Prime Minister himself, he was transferred to the new Napsbury hospital, in the Hertfordshire countryside. In these pleasant surroundings he lived on until 1935, painting ceaselessly and recreating a new and more colorful cat world. His later unpublished work is now well known to us as it reveals his schizophrenic illness: highly coloured cats become more frenzied and the pictures are often crammed with paranoid delusional writing: cats are angry and more frenetic and often in the background are the curious buildings of the mental asylums. But at times these pictures reveal a beautiful tranquility with animals living in harmony in bright utopian landscapes.

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It was love at first sight when Louis first met Emily Richardson, his younger sister's governess. He ran away from home and lived in sin with her in 1883 when such behavior was taboo. In 1884 he married her against his prudish family's wishes, and later tenderly cared for her through a devastating illness until she died. 50 years later, his expression turned to one of ecstasy as he cried Oh Emily, you are waiting for me, and closed his eyes forever. In his professional life, Louis Wain was an artistic genius with a touch of madness that made him especially fascinating. During Edwardian times he enchanted the English and thrilled the Americans with his prolific output of cat illustrations and paintings which appeared as centerfolds in the chic Illustrated London News, full size pages in The New York American, and other prominent publications. He also created zillions of postcards, for which he became the most famous. The English Cat Artist contains 65 Louis Wain cat pictures containing around 800 cats (some in glorious color), with date and source of each one, plus 10 Wain personal pictures. Presented in the format of a fast paced novel, this inside story of Louis Wain's life is revealed against a backdrop of prevailing conditions in England, and the world in a vivid, realistic, and entertaining fashion.

Louis Wain drew cats: cats playing poker, boxing, playing cricket - doing almost any human activity, in fact. His pictures are widely available today as decorative motifs and popular prints, but in his day the man dubbed the Hogarth of cat life" was a celebrity who sold thousands of drawings and paintings to an insatiable public. From humble beginnings Wain became a hugely successful popular artist, creating the Louis Wain Annual series and the first ever animated cat character, later acknowledged as the inspiration for Mickey Mouse. With a wealth of Wain's most famous drawings, as well as rare writings by and about the artist, A Cat Compendium is an ideal book for both Wain fans and cat-lovers in general.

Louis Wain's witty feline illustrations sold many hundreds of thousands of copies around the world, and earned their creator the title 'the Hogarth of cat life'. A Cat Compendium brings together the very best of Wain's work. With a biographical introduction by editor Peter Haining, a selection of the artist's writings and more than sixty of his pictures, it is an ideal introduction to the fascinating and sometimes bizarre worlds of Louis Wain.

Louis Wain drew cats: cats playing poker, boxing, playing cricket - doing almost any human activity, in fact. His pictures are widely available today as decorative motifs and popular prints, but in his day the man dubbed the Hogarth of cat life" was a celebrity who sold thousands of drawings and paintings to an insatiable public. From humble beginnings Wain became a hugely successful popular artist, creating the Louis Wain Annual series and the first ever animated cat character, later acknowledged as the inspiration for Mickey Mouse. With a wealth of Wain's most famous drawings, as well as rare writings by and about the artist, A Cat Compendium is an ideal book for both Wain fans and cat-lovers in general.

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Perhaps the best loved illustrator of comic cats of the twentieth century. Born in 1860 Wain became a household name for his cat illustrations in the 1890s.

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