My Wife’s Lovers, 1891, Carl Kahler
God I hope I am immortalised by my husband for having 40 cats
Fun facts:
- It cost $5,000 in 1888 to have this painting made, which is more than $120,000 in today’s money.
- I say 1888 because it took three years for Kahler to complete, reportedly because he spent most of the time studying and sketching each cat to get a feel for their personality.
- It was painted for Kate Johnson, the title was her husband’s idea though, proving him the most patient and good-humored husband in the history of crazy cat ladies.
- Speaking of cat ladies, the picture actually contains 42 cats. Or more specifically, Mrs. Johnson’s 42 most favorite cats. She had 350 in total.
- It sold at auction via Sotheby’s a few days ago for over $800,000 dollars, vastly more than its $200,000-$300,000 estimate.
- The buyer is a private collector in California.
- Probably someone who really, really likes cats.
- I mean, really likes cats.
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Little Edie Beale in Grey Gardens, the home she shared with her mother, in 1972.
Credit Photograph by Tom Wargacki / WireImage.
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“l see myself as… some kind of a little girl.”
Grey Gardens (Ellen Hovde, Albert Maysles, David Maysles & Muffie Meyer, 1975)
Two girl models standing on the roof of a Land Rover in Florence, Italy, 1958.
Jackie Kennedy age progression. 64 years in 10 seconds.
I didn’t have enough patience to make the faces more aligned.
If you want a more “emotional” experience of this, here
“Jackie had a brief moment of regret. “I should not have allowed him to come here. I didn’t want him to come here. And he didn’t want to come here. Why on earth did they make him come here [Dallas]”
“Sometimes I think that time heals things and you forget certain things. I mean, I can’t remember Jack’s voice exactly anymore but I still cant stand to look at pictures of him…When I came back [to Hyannisport] everything just hit me, because this was the only house where we really lived, where we had our children, where every little pickle jar I had found in some little country lane on the cape was placed, and nothing’s changed since we were in it and all of the memories came before my eyes.” Jackie Kennedy, 1975
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