Artnet

2022-05-05

Cats with wide, mesmeric eyes stare out from canvases. Beside them, women recline languorously in states of undress. These are the peculiar, bewitching visions of Renate Druks, an obscure Viennese artist who lived in and worked in Los Angeles during the middle of the last century. During her lifetime, Druks was an intimate friend of the writer Anaïs Nin, painter Marjorie Cameron, and filmmaker Kenneth Anger, and was better known as a creative muse than for her own work.