IMPRESSIONIST CATS.**

UK,slim Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn. FINE/NFINE. No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj - absence of publisher's price - generally believed to be an export copy,which usually precedes the UK trade edn issues. Pictorial colour decorated dw/dj (after Pierre-Auguste RENOIR - The Boating Party) with minimal shelf-wear to edges and an internal sellotape repair to closed tear to top front edge towards the head of the spine/backstrip.Fore-edges clean with contents near pristine. Red paper-covered boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt publisher's colophon to upper board and blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and plain white endpapers.UK,slim Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn,64pp [unpaginated] includes pictorial colour half-title+frntis, a preface and 32 full-page,full-colour illustrations,all by Susan Herbert.
Cats playing a quiet game of cards,cats at the ballet, cats having a leisurely lunch on the grass,cats dancing in the boisterous French style or boating on the river. Here are the quintessential Impressionist cats - painted with vivid,joyous colours in their favourite haunts, at their ease in various ordinary activities. With their pensive,brooding expressions,cats lend themselves perfectly to incorporation in the great works of the Impressionist masters, whether strolling among Monet's wild poppies, sitting in Mary Cassatt's lodge at the opera,or even enjoying a Sunday dance at Renoir's Bougival. They can be charming or steeped in mute despair,vulgar or lovingly maternal,bourgeois or intellectual - but they are always Impressionist cats, caught as if by the camera,spontaneous and unprepared.
Susan Herbert has already shown a unique ability to paint cats in unusual and unexpected guises.Here she presents them brilliantly in the much-loved context of Impressionism,a wondrously beguiling sight.
See also rja26997+rja391711 copies of 'Medieval Cats',rja451913 'OPERA CATS' and rja491514 - 'MOVIE CATS',for other author/artist titles available.For other titles of similar interest and/or subject see my book ID's rja32718 (Janis Mitchell: THE HAMSTER BALLET COMPANY) and rja681617 (Zoe Stokes: ZOE'S CATS.). Susan Herbert (1945–2014),freelance artist, studied at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art,University of Oxford.Having worked and painted for the English National Opera and the Theatre Royal,she now specializes in limited edition prints of theatrical animals,and exhibits frequently.
By the close of the 1970's, she had become a freelance artist, with work permanently displayed at the Theatre Royal and Kings Circus Gallery, both in Bath. During the 1980's, she broadened her interests,exhibiting miniatures in the United States (1984) and producing a set of limited edition prints and cards (1989). A major exhibition of her work was held in 1990 at the Crypt Gallery,St Martin-in-the-Fields,London. Her international popularity was confirmed by a touring exhibition,which began in Tokyo in 1995.
Author and illustrator of 'The Cats Gallery of Art' (1990), 'The Cats History of Western Art' (1994), 'Diary of a Victorian Cat' (1991), Impressionist Cats' (1992), 'The Cats Gallery of Western Art' (1994), 'Medieval Cats' (1995), 'Pre-Raphaelite Cats' (1999), 'Shakespeare Cats' (1996), 'Opera Cats' (1997), 'The Cats Gallery of Western Art' (2002,a compilation of 1990 & 1994 volumes) and 'Movie Cats' (2006).
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