The Week -
3 Nov 2015 22:42

There is a high rolling cat lover somewhere in New York -- one that paid several times the price of a fancy car in order to call the world's largest cat painting his or her own. Weighing 227 pounds and measuring 6-feet by 8.5-feet, "My Wife's Lovers" was painted by Austrian artist Carl Kahler around 1893 and features 350 cats, 42 of which had real-life counterparts belonging to the painting's commissioner, Kate Birdsall Johnson. In the center of the work is Sultan, a cat who cost Johnson $3,000....
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