Cats Playing By Yo Laur (1879-1944)

Oil on canvas depicting some cats playing around a cup of tea signed Yo LAUR (1879-1944) pseudonym of Marie Yvonne LAURE daughter of the famous French painter Alfred Brunel de Neuville. She devoted her entire life to paint cats in humorous postures like his father who was also a specialist of still lifes.
Yo LAUR enjoyed a great success during her career and began exhibiting at the Paris Salon in 1900. In 1908 she became a member of the Society of French Artists. Freemason and Member of the french resistance during the Second World War, she was arrested by the Nazis in Paris and was deported to the concentration camp of Ravensbruck where she died in 1944.
The canvas measures 73cm by 60 and with the frame the painting measures 93cm by 80. An old restoration to be reported on the canvas but invisible on the painted side. beautiful gilded frame made of wood and stucco.
Very pretty painting painted with great finesse and realism.