Here’s a collection of portraits of those famous artists around the world photographed with their cats, say, Salvador Dalí, Picasso, Paul Klee, Gustav Klimt and so on. No one knows how cat and human being became friends, maybe not at all…
1. Salvador Dalí with his cat ocelot, Babou
2. Henri Matisse and his cats: Minouche and Coussi
3. Picasso and his cat
4. Ai Weiwei with Lai Lai — one of his 40 cats
5. Gustav Klimt with his cat, Katze
6. Paul Klee, Bimbo
7. Romare Bearden hanging out with Gippo
8. Pierre Bonnard and cat
9. Henri Cartier-Bresson captured friend Saul Steinberg lounging with his cat
10. Photographer Margaret Bourke-White with her kitty, 1944
11. Agnès Varda
12. Edward Gorey loved cats
13. Jean Cocteau with Karoun
14. Jacques Villon, Marcel Duchamp, and Raymond Duchamp-Villon and their cats
15. Photographer Edward Weston nicknamed his home “Wildcat Hill,” because the cats congregated in his house
16. Maya Lin and her cat in the studio, New York
17. Balthus and his cat at home
