My Wife's Lovers | Carl Kahler | 1891 Select Size:48" x 32" flat colors and simplified forms

flat colors and simplified forms

Ghosts on a Tree immerses the viewer in a surreal landscape where nature and the supernatural merge

and is considered one of the most analyzed and celebrated paintings in Western art history

embodying the futility expressed in the saying "to bang one's head against a brick wall

introspective vision

My Wife's Lovers | Carl Kahler | 1891 Select Size:48" x 32" flat colors and simplified formsAbout the artwork: My Wifes Lovers by Carl Kahler, painted in 1891, is one of the most extravagant and humorous tributes to feline adoration in art history. Commissioned by San Francisco millionaire Kate Birdsall Johnson, the painting features more than forty of her prized Persian and Angora cats, arranged in a grand, almost regal composition. Kahler, originally a painter of racehorses and society portraits, took on the challenge after reportedly