The Coming of the Great Cat God is a 1968 color lithograph by Ronald Searle. It combines his popular cat imagery with one of those calamitous urban landscapes he was rendering at the time. A colossal smiling cat radiating garish colored light towers over the imposing cityscape and extends its right front paw downward. Terrified men in business suits jump from buildings and flee from the cat. It is not unusual for Searle's lithographs of this period to contrast elements from nature with an overbuilt urban landscape featuring panic-stricken inhabitants.
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| The Coming of the Great Cat God Ronald Searle Original lithograph no. 86/95, 1968 Gurlitt catalogue no. 34 EE cat. no. 94 |
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| Ronald Searle Swann Galleries listing ended May 22, 2014 |
The Gurlitt catalogue does not list a promotional poster for Editions Empreinte. The poster does not have Searle's signature or his distinctive writing, but it does attribute copyright to him in small printing at the bottom:
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| Ronald Searle Quinn's Auction Galleries listing ended December 20, 2022 |
The color lithograph was included in Ronald Searle's Big Fat Cat Book (1982):
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