Hydrangea Hussies, 1995.
Scented acrylic on painted board.
71 x 49cm.
Dr Brent Gilchrist Trust, St Louis, USA.

Artist
Muffin, a five-year old ginger and white tom, specializes in floral studies. His best known work, "Doing It Differently With Daisies," used acrylics, milk, cat food and real daisies on a white sheepskin rug to produce a work which contained some startling three-dimensional structures of high narrative impact.

Curatorial Notes
"Too many feline works these days suffer from a monotonous diffusion of forms and images which subdue the pictorial narrative the paintings seem intended to achieve. This is not the case with Muffin's work. While some of his recent floral studies are perhaps only obliquely associated with flora, his ever-so-subtle petal-like filigree of tiny claw marks is always able to assert a residue of content despite an absence of outside referents." Peter D. Thrush, exhibition catalog, 1995.

Sent In By: Mrs D Shillson, Memphis, USA

Estimated Value: Muffin has been exhibited several times with other feline artists and his owner is confident of a solo exhibition in Nashville later this year where "Hydrangea Hussies" will be shown for the first time. Given the fact that previous prices paid for his floral works in group exhibition have fetched around $1,500 each, we would expect this work to reach $3,000 as a result of the artist's higher solo exhibition status. (MONPA).