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PROVENANCE: This portfolio is directly from F. Luis Mora's niece, who is guiding us while we compile a retrospective exhibition. A letter of authentication and provenance will accompany each artwork purchased. This stamp is authorized for this artist's works.
CONDITION of sale: We require buyers' permission that these artworks can be reproduced in the book we are researching. We can not promise that all will be included, and we will notify the buyer if an artwork is chosen.
Artist Biography :
F. Luis Mora was the son of Spanish Sculptor Domingo Mora, who emigrated to the USA in 1878, when Luis was four years old. Luis's brother was Western artist Jo Mora 1876-1947.
The Mora brothers were raised in New Jersey. Luis Mora had a studio in Manhattan and in Gaylordsville, Connecticut, where his daughter Rosemary was raised. The artist's wife and Rosemary's mother was known as Sonia, and her niece kept these artworks from harm. This impeccable provenance will be furnished to all buyers of these exciting drawings and watercolors.
Mora studied at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts school with Frank Benson and Tarbell, and the Art Students League, where his father, the great sculptor Domingo Mora, was a teacher. Luis was made a full member of the National Academy of Design (1906). A precocious talent, he exhibited at the Boston Art Club and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts when he was just eighteen years old,. and frequently thereafter. He also exhibited and won prizes at the Philadelphia Art Club, St. Louis Exposition, Pan-Pacific Exposition in 1915 in San Francisco, National Academy of Design, Yale University, NY Historical Society, and dozens of other venues.
Mora retained interest in his Hispanic heritage throughout his career, painting beautiful Spanish women, well-dressed cavaliers, and genre scenes. Luis fully assimilated into American culture, spoke three or four languages, and he was above all an American painter. He was trained in Boston, and was widely known in New York art circles. He taught at William Merritt Chase's art school in NYC.Now he is extensively listed and his works are owned by the Metropolitan Museum in NY, San Francisco Museum of Fine Arts , the Smithsonian Museum, and 16 additional museums.
Thus far, F. Luis Mora's high auction record is $48,500 in 1998.