Laura Gascoigne

How crazy was Louis Wain?

The 1960s generation claimed the artist as a proto-freak for his psychedelic cats that looked like they were bombed out of their tiny minds

‘Three White Cats and Tub’ (left) and ‘Tabby Toboggan Club’ (right) and by Louis Wain

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