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When receiving news of the next collectors' sale at Eldred's Plymouth I was pleased to see Louis Wain's Days in Catland volume, that asks pounds100-pounds150 on Tuesday. Being enhanced with chromolithographed cut-outs throughout, it coincided with a letter received from another fan of this incredibly gifted man, who died in abject poverty at 78 in a St Albans lunatic asylum in 1939.
Wain was producing around 600 original drawings at his peak before his illness took control and wrecked the poor man's life. And even when in hospital he continued to draw his own cats, usually in red conte or charcoal. Sometimes he also painted them in oils and watercolours, but more often they were just sketches of these wide- eyed canny creatures that he gave away to staff and the few friends, like H G Wells, who visited him towards the end of his life.See the full content of this document
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Peek at Catland with Louis Wain
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