Nickolas Muray Collection of Mexican Art 1925-1954

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Nickolas Muray Collection of Mexican Art 1925-1954

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The collection contains 102 pieces of artwork assembled by Nickolas Muray. Ninety of the works are by Miguel Covarrubias including his works as an artist, caricaturist, book illustrator, and ballet set designer. The rest of the collection is composed of works by Frida Kahlo, Rufino Tamayo, and several other Mexican artists.

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Muray, Nickolas

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Nickolas Muray was born February 15, 1892, in Szeged, Hungary. He attended a graphic arts school in Budapest, where he studied lithography, photoengraving, and photography. After earning an International Engraver's Certificate, Muray took a three-year course in color photoengraving in Berlin, where, among other things, he learned to make color filters. At the end of his course he went to work for the publishing company Ullstein. In 1913, with the threat of war in Europe,...