Eduardo Diaz Yepes was born in Madrid in 1910 and started to study sculpture alone there. After befriending many avant-garde artists in Madrid he exhibited his works under the influence of Cubism at the Circle of Fine Arts in 1930.
He then showed discomposed geometric figures opposing void and full volumes in a style reminiscent to that of Archipenko.
Yepes left Madrid in 1934 in the company of Uruguayan painter Joaquin Torres-Garcia who had played a major role in the launching of geometric abstraction.
Back in Montevideo, Torres-Garcia had a great influence over the evolution of painting in Latin America which enabled the blossoming of a typical South-American form of art in the 1960s.
Yepes married Torres-Garcias daughter in Montevideo in 1936 and returned to Spain the following year. He then exhibited his works at the 1937 International Exhibition in Paris but was held under surveillance after the defeat of the Republican governement in Spain in 1939.
He returned for good to Montevideo in 1948 and turned to a form of Expressionist style after experiencing some researches between Cubism and Abstraction.
In the last part of his life, Yepes stuck to abstraction again and created a sculpture for the Palace of Light in 1952. He became a citizen of Uruguay in 1956.
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