Marius de Zayas

Zayas, Marius de

Mexican, 1880 - 1961

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Mexican artist and art dealer (1880-1961)

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A female torso from the neck to the shoulders and knees is carved from white marble in this freestanding sculpture. The body is square toward us in this photograph. The neck is jagged where the head has broken off, and the arms are missing below the shoulders. The leg on our right is broken off above the knee and the other below the knee. Firm, round breasts are above a soft belly and smooth groin. Some areas of the surface are smooth and others are rough, and the marble has darkened to tan in places. The sculpture is supported by a metal rod on our right, and the work rests on a square base. The wall behind is light gray.
Hellenistic 2nd Century B.C./1st Century A.D., Roman 2nd Century B.C./1st Century A.D., Torso of Aphrodite, c. 200 B.C./150 A.D., marble, Gift of Barbara Harrison Wescott in memory of the Hon. Francis Burton Harrison, 1969.9.1

Torso of Aphrodite

Hellenistic 2nd Century B.C./1st Century A.D., Roman 2nd Century B.C./1st Century A.D. · c. 200 B.C./150 A.D. · marble ·  Accession ID  1969.9.1

Paul Cezanne, Vase of Flowers, 1900/1903, oil on canvas, Gift of Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer, 1958.10.2

Vase of Flowers

Paul Cezanne · 1900/1903 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1958.10.2

We look across a forested ravine painted in deep greens and blues at a terracotta-orange building at the top of a hill at the center of this nearly square, loosely painted landscape. Spring and moss-green trees grow along the ravine in front of us and up the left side of the canvas. Shadows within the densely forested area are painted with slate and royal blue with touches of plum and lavender purple, and the blue continues into the sky in the upper right quadrant of the composition. The sky is visible through the pointed, arched windows on the upper level of the building, giving the impression that it might be incomplete or in ruins. The building is made up of two stories over a protruding base, which could be a fortress-like structure below or a cliff face. Loose, thick brushstrokes are visible throughout.
Paul Cezanne, Château Noir, 1900/1904, oil on canvas, Gift of Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer, 1958.10.1

Château Noir

Paul Cezanne · 1900/1904 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1958.10.1

Pale beige, angular houses cluster at the center of the horizontal landscape painting. The hilly, rocky landscape around and below the houses is painted with cool blues and greens, and warm ivory and caramel brown beneath a pale blue sky. The artist applied the paint with regular, parallel, straight strokes.
Paul Cezanne, Houses in Provence: The Riaux Valley near L'Estaque, c. 1883, oil on canvas, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1973.68.1

Houses in Provence: The Riaux Valley near L'Estaque

Paul Cezanne · c. 1883 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1973.68.1

Bibliography

1949

  • Tormo y Monzo, Elias. Museo del Prado; catalogo de las esculteras I: la Sala de las Musas. Madrid, 1949: 58-59.

1952

  • Garcia y Bellido, A. "La Escultura Clasica del 'Legado Zayas' en el Museo del Prado." Archivo Español de Arqueologia 25 (1952): 87-102.

1957

  • Blanco, Antonio. Museo del Prado, catalogo de la escultura. Madrid, 1957: 8, 135-6.

1980

  • Hyland, Douglas. "Agnes Ernst Meyer, Patron of American Modernism." The American Art Journal (Winter 1980): 64-81.

1981

  • Hyland, Douglas. Marius de Zayas; Conjurer of Souls Exh. cat.. Lawrence, Kansas: Spencer Museum of Art, 1981.