Nickolas Muray (born Miklós Mandl;[1] 15 February 1892 – 2 November 1965) was a Hungarian-born American photographer and Olympic saber fencer.

[6] In 1913 Muray sailed to New York City, and was able to find work as a color printer in Brooklyn.

[5] By 1920, Muray had opened a portrait studio at his home in Greenwich Village, while still working at his union job as an engraver.

Muray quickly became recognized as an important portrait photographer, and his subjects included most of the celebrities of New York City.

Muray's images were published in many other publications, including Vogue, Ladies' Home Journal, and The New York Times.

Their affair had started in 1931, after Muray was divorced from his second wife and shortly after Kahlo's marriage to Mexican muralist painter Diego Rivera.

[11] After the market crash in 1929, Muray turned away from celebrity and theatrical portraiture, and become a pioneering commercial photographer, famous for his creation of many of the conventions of color advertising.

[5] On the second occasion in the very same fencing room Muray was struck again in a final and fatal attack on 2 November 1965.