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Jan DeRuth Oil Painting, Pantomime Portrait #1683749

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Jan DeRuth Oil Painting, Pantomime Portrait #1683749
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Artist: Jan DeRuth

Title: Pantomime

Year: circa 1970

Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed

Size: 17" x 13" (25" x 21" Framed)
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Listed "Who was Who in American Art" Born Karlovy Vary, Czechoslovakia Studied: Rotter Art School, Prague; Ruskin Art School, Oxford Univ, England; ASL New York; New School, NY; also with Frederic Taubes. Exhibited: 38 National Juried Exhibitions, 14 Museum Solo Shows and 51 Gallery Solo Exhibitions. Author: Portrait Painting, 1964; Painting the Nude, 1968. It's a long way from sketching in leftover coffee to painting a portrait of Ethel Kennedy for the cover of Time Magazine, twenty-five years in fact; and during that period, Jan De Ruth's personal experiences have been enough to fill two ordinary lifetimes. Through them all, art has sustained him and been his primary interest. To begin with, De Ruth, a native of Czechoslovakia and now an American citizen, spent the years of World War II being shunted through 5 different concentration camps, including the infamous Auschwitz. He made four escape attempts and finally made good on his fifth try. De Ruth constantly sought materials with which to draw, but "The only things we had were the few pieces of cloth we wore," he recalls. By chance, he was transferred to Germany as part of a labor detail and managed to sneak a pencil away from the camp supervisor-"I became a perfect thief during those years," he says. Jan drew a mother and child on a scrap of paper he scrounged from the ...
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<tr><td>Condition:Excellent</td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:circa 1970</td></tr>






<tr><td>Title:Jan DeRuth Oil Painting, Pantomime Portrait</td></tr>

<tr><td>Materials:Oil on Canvas</td></tr>

<tr><td>Location:New York City, USA</td></tr>
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