Sailing Cats

Walking by Ourselves along the noble path of enlightenment of humanity, We, Zarathustra the Cat decided to revisit northern art and reveal a mystery of Isaac Grünewald, the most influential Swedish modernist painter. Yes, We inspired this great master also:

Isaac Grünewald, Boy with a Sailing Cat (Gosse med segelkatt), 1918

But you will not find the Cat in the painting sold recently at the auction, the sailing boat that had a mission to carry Our generous body to the boy’s cuddle is empty:

Isaac Grünewald, Boy with a sailing boat, no cat in it!

What had happened? As you may be suspected the blame is on local Swedish art criticists of that time. Isaac Grünewald was met with considerable suspicion and skepticism by the closed critics’ community: he was a student of Matisse in France (foreign influence, bad and dangerous), he was a Jew (do you remember what time it was?), and now he painted a cute cat (bad taste!) and even more, a Russian cute cat (never forget Great Northern War in the 18th century)! So there was no chance and the painter hid the masterpiece and just marked the time until things would be going better.
Nowadays things are going evidently better: national and religious discrimination is treated as a bad taste and even a crime.

Now it is time to deal with the discrimination of cats in art!
And when the day comes, the lucky will be one who finds the original painting!