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My Wife's Lovers is a canvas painting by Austrian artist Carl Kahler (1856–1906) depicting forty-two of American millionaire Kate Birdsall Johnson's Turkish Angora cats.[1] The title of the painting was potentially conceived by her husband,[2] who may have referred to the cats with the phrase.[3] Measuring 6 by 8.5 feet (1.8 m × 2.6 m), the canvas weighs 227 pounds (103 kg).[4]

My Wife's Lovers
Artist	Carl Kahler
Dimensions	6 ft (1.8 m) × 8.5 ft (2.6 m)
Weight	227 lb (103 kg)
Commissioned by	Kate Birdsall Johnson
Collection	Unknown
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History

Some say Johnson owned 350 cats that she housed in her summer house Buena Vista near Sonoma, California, and left them $500,000 in her will, but this is disputed. She commissioned the painting in 1891.[4] Having never painted a cat before, Kahler spent three years studying cats' poses and learning their habits.[2] He reportedly received around $5,000 for the painting (equivalent to $150,000 in 2021).[4] The center of the painting shows her cat Sultan, bought by Johnson during a trip to Paris.[2] Johnson lent the painting for the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, and in the next year it was acquired by Ernest Haquette for his Palace of Art Salon in San Francisco.[4] While the salon was destroyed in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, the painting survived it.[4]

Purchases and display

My Wife's Lovers subsequently hung in Frank C. Havens' Piedmont Art Gallery in Piedmont, California, and was later purchased by a couple from Chicago. In November 2015, the painting was sold at Sotheby's to a private California buyer for $826,000.[4]

In 2016, the Portland Art Museum displayed the piece between February 2 and June 8, 2016 and partnered with the Oregon Humane Society to raise awareness of cat adoptions.[5]

References

External links

• First Look: Carl Kahler, 'My Wife’s Lovers' on Sotheby's
• Sotheby's entry

На других языках

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- [en] My Wife's Lovers

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[fr] My Wife's Lovers

My Wife's Lovers est un tableau du peintre autrichien Carl Kahler peint en 1891. Il représente quarante-deux chats angoras et persans appartenant à la millionnaire et philanthrope américaine Catherine Kate Birdsall Johnson[1]. Le titre de ce tableau est attribué au mari de la millionnaire, Robert Carlton Johnson[2] .

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[ru] Любовники моей жены

«Любовники моей жены» (англ. My Wife’s Lovers) — картина австрийского художника Карла Калера (1855—1906), созданная в 1891—1893 годах по заказу американской миллионерши Кейт Бёрдселл Джонсон (1833—1893). Предположительно, название было дано её супругом, Робертом Джонсоном — хотя он и умер в Париже в 1889 году, ещё до начала работы над картиной[1].

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