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(b. Mexico City, 1897; d. Mexico City, 1964). This Mexican painter and stage designer studied at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes in Mexico City and later designed sets for the cinema, first in Hollywood, CA at Universal Studios (1926-29), and assisted Miguel Covarrubias with four murals for the Pacific House in San Francisco. Later in Mexico, he also worked as a stage designer, particularly for children's theatre. At the International Surrealist Exhibition held at the Galeria de Arte Mexicano, Mexico City, in 1940 (organized by Wolfgang Paalen, Andre Breton and the Peruvian poet Cesar Moro (1906-78)) he showed Leader Making a Speech (1939) in which a small man standing on an enormous chair addresses an audience made up of pumpkins. Although Ruiz was not prolific, he produced three or four small oil paintings a year but were imbued with a strong sense of humor and a rich sense of color, tending towards the popular style of religious ex-votos. He also produced two murals in Mexico a
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