Pablo Runyan Kelting

About

Pablo Runyan Kelting was a Panamanian surrealist painter born in 1925, son of a prominent doctor and a mother specializing in bonsai cultivation, which he continued in Spain with his own notable collection. Raised in Panama, he moved to New York in 1943, where he met writer Anaïs Nin, who became his protector and helped him enter the Art Academy of Max Ernst. He befriended key surrealist figures including André Breton, Max Ernst, Peggy Guggenheim, and others like Ava Gardner and Leonard Bernstein, while living in Paris and London before settling in Madrid in 1951, where he resumed painting and worked in cinema and theater with Luís Buñuel and Carlos Saura, appearing in the 1963 film Weeping for a Bandit.

Surrealism