Biography:

Marius de Zayas was an artist, illustrator and gallery owner.  He was born on March 13, 1880 in Veracruz, Mexico.  He began his career working at his father’s newspaper as an illustrator.  In 1906 he began working at El Diario, a newspaper critical of the policies of President Porfirio Diaz.  He soon fled to the United States and settled in New York City.  He worked for the New York Evening World as a cartoonist.  Alfred Stieglitz displayed De Zayas’s artwork in his gallery in 1909 and 1910.  In 1910 he traveled to Paris where he became inspired by the artwork of Francis Picabia.  De Zayas opened an art gallery in New York City in 1915.  After closing the gallery in 1921, he moved to Europe where he spent the next two decades organizing modern art shows.  He died on January 10, 1961.