- Francis Luis Mora (American, 1874-1940)
The Artist’s Wife and Her Sister Arranging Flowers and Ribbons, alternatively titled Sonia and Lola at Leisure
Signed and dated “F. Luis Mora 1911” l.l.
Oil on canvas, 35 3/4 x 39 3/4 in. (91.0 x 101.0 cm), framed.
Condition: Lined, retouch, craquelure.
Provenance: Purchased from DeVille Galleries, Los Angeles, 1980.
Literature: Lynne Pauls Baron, F. Luis Mora: America’s First Hispanic Master 1874-1940 (Madison, CT: Falk Art
Reference, 2008), illus. plate 6.13.
N.B. The work depicts the artist’s wife Sophia “Sonia” Brown Compton Mora (at right), and his sister-in-law, Lola
Compton, at the Compton Family Home, Perth Amboy, New Jersey.
We wish to thank Lynne Pauls Baron for her kind assistance with cataloguing the lot; the present work will be
included in her forthcoming catalogue raisonné on Mora.
$15,000-20,000
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