Louis Wain's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from $35 USD to $24,856 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 1998 the record price for this artist at auction is $24,856 USD for The Maypole., sold at Bonhams New Bond Street in 2014.
What is the most expensive Louis Wain painting?
Average price and sold lots The most expensive piece of art by Louis William Wain in our art price database was sold at 7 Jun 2005 by the auction house Bonhams London for £30,000(ca. US$54,555).
The artist Louis Wain (1860-1939) was as eccentric as water is wet. Wain painted and drafted as effortlessly as he struggled with most other things. He could draw a portrait with two hands in less than a minute. His passions were electricity, his wife (once his family's governess) and cats, his subject of choice.
Did Louis Wain ever make money?
Despite his fame Wain never made much money, being highly impractical in business matters, and during the war he began to suffer real poverty.
Did any of Louis Wain sisters ever marry?
None of his five sisters ever married. The remaining sisters lived with their mother for the duration of their lifetimes, as did Louis for the majority of his life. Wain was born with a cleft lip and the doctor gave his parents the orders that he should not be sent to school or taught until he was ten years old.
Was Louis Wain actually schizophrenic?
Louis William Wain (5 August 1860 4 July 1939) was an English artist best known for his drawings, which consistently featured anthropomorphized large-eyed cats and kittens. Later in life, he was confined to mental institutions and was alleged to have suffered from schizophrenia.
When did Louis Wain get schizophrenia?
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Did Louis Wain ever make any money?
Wain's art hit at the right time. Yet despite such success, Wain struggled. His wife died in 1887. He channeled his grief into his art — which grew more colorful, more detailed, more surreal and abstract — but he never copyrighted his work and didn't earn a penny off the numerous reproductions of his illustrations.Nov 4, 2021