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The Incredible Story Behind 'World's Largest Cat Painting'

By AVIANNE TAN
06 Nov 2015
Good Morning America


The Incredible Story Behind 'World's Largest Cat Painting' (ABC News)

A massive 227-pound painting, believed to be the "world's largest cat painting," was recently bought at a Sotheby's auction in New York for $826,000.

The piece featuring 42 cats on a 6-feet-by-8.5-feet canvas was "so large and so heavy" that carpenters had to make a special wall reinforced with plywood because when it was put up on a normal wall, "it pulled the nails right out," Polly Sartori, Sotheby's head of 19th-century European art, told ABC News today.

But even more incredible than the painting's size and premium price is the story behind it.

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Johnson's husband jokingly referred to the work as "My Wife's Lovers." The name stuck.

The feline in the center of the painting is Sultan, a cat Johnson found so "irresistible" that she paid $3,000 for him during a trip to Paris, according to Sotheby's.

Johnson, "possibly America’s greatest cat enthusiast," according to Sotheby's, wrote in her will that $500,000 was to go to the "perpetual care and comfort" of her cats, Sotheby's said.

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