Spanish painter Ramon de Zubiaurre and his artist brother Valentin, Jr. were the sons of Valentin de Zubiaurre, a Professor of Madrid's Music Conservatory and Director of the Royal Chapel there. Though they were born deaf, the two brothers soon started to draw and paint with extraordinary facility after a short training at the School of Fine Arts in Madrid.

They then went to Paris where they were profoundly influenced by the paintings of their French contemporaries, whose Modernist tendencies are reflected in their simplification of form and composition into strong, basic geometries.

Upon moving back to their Basque homeland in Northern Spain (Gavay/Vizcaya), Valentin and Ramon became famous for their dep...