Pablo Runyan Kelting (1925 – February 14, 2002) was a Panamanian surrealist painter who lived and worked in Madrid from 1951 until his death in 2002.
Pablo Runyan Kelting | |
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| Born | 1925 Panama |
| Died | February 14, 2002 Madrid |
| Occupation(s) | painter, decorator cinema, script writer |
| Style | surrealist |
Biography
editRunyan was son of a famous doctor and a mother specialized in the cultivation of bonsais, an art he continued in Spain creating an important collection. Born and raised in Panama, he moved 1943 to New York, where he met writer Anaïs Nin, who became his protector. She helped him to get into the famous Art Academy Max Ernst. Runyan was a friend of Andre Breton, Peggy Guggenheim, Max Ernst, Ava Gardner or Leonard Bernstein.[1]
He lived in Paris and London, and moved to Madrid 1951, where he resumed painting. He also worked in cinema and theatre with personalities such as Luís Buñuel or Carlos Saura. With Saura he acted in Weeping for a bandit. 1963 playing an English painter who portrayed El Tempranillo, played by Paco Rabal. Due to his many connections, Runyan's house became a meeting place for personalities[2] of cinema and the arts in general, where actors like Ava Gardner visited him frequently.[3]
Since 1970, he devoted himself exclusively to painting, exhibiting his works in Galleries like the Gallery Clan or Juana Mordo, and participating along with artists such as Juan Prat at the Gallery Vandres by Gloria Kirby, 1972, with Daniel Garbade at the ARCO Art fair 1984, or Jaume Plensa, Eduardo Chillida and Antonio Saura at the Fundación Juan March, 1998.
Exhibitions (Solo shows)
edit- Instituto Nacional, Panamá, 1949 y 1950
- Gallery Clan (Tomas Seral), Madrid, España, 1953
- Gallery Provenza, Tánger, 1954
- Gallery Fernando Fe, Madrid, España, 1956
- Gallery Vandrés, Madrid, España, 1972[4]
- GalleryArvil, México D.F.1974
- Gallery Etienne de Causans, París, Francia, 1981
- Gallery Galería Juana Mordó, Madrid, España, 1982
- Gallery Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, California, Estados Unidos, 1984
- Gallery Walcheturn de Zurich, ARCO, Madrid, España, 1985
- Gallery Sala C.A.I. Luzan, Zaragoza, 1990
Sources
edit- ^ "Pablo Runyan, pintor panameño". El País (in Spanish). 2002-02-18. ISSN 1134-6582. Retrieved 2018-02-07.
- ^ Ordóñez, Marcos (2011-11-16). Beberse la vida: Ava Gardner en España (in Spanish). Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial España. ISBN 9788403130876.
- ^ Pose, Germán (2018-02-03). "Las juergas de Ava Gardner, Frank Sinatra y Marlon Brando en Madrid". El País (in Spanish). ISSN 1134-6582. Retrieved 2018-02-07.
- ^ "ABC (Madrid) - 05/10/1972, p. 61 - ABC.es Hemeroteca". hemeroteca.abc.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 2018-02-07.