Kalman Aron, Untitled (Blue), 1965

Kalman Aron
Untitled (Blue), 1965
Oil on canvas
 
60' x 36" 
Signed by the artist en verso
 
This is a wonderful portrait in oil by Kalman Aron, the father of David Aron, an abstract painter, and a key member of the Alleged Gallery scene in new York. When he died, Dave placed these paintings in my care. Though Kalman cycled through many different styles through the eras of his life, I've always loved these. They remind me a bit of Margaret Keane in the best way.
 
Kalman Aron (1924-2018), was an artist and Holocaust survivor whose portraiture allowed him to better understand his experience in concentration camps, has died at ninety-three, according to the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust. By trading sketches of Nazi guards and their families for bits of food, Aron would eventually endure seven concentration camps, the first of which he arrived at when he was sixteen. After the war, he received a scholarship to the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and earned a master’s degree. He became a celebrated American portraitist after moving, in 1949, to California, where he continued to paint for the rest of his life.   
 
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