BIOGRAPHY

    1952

      Luís Soares is born on August 22 in Lourenço 
      Marques, ( now Maputo ) Mozambique. 
      Son of colonists, and is very soon influenced by the 
      white, black and Asiatic mixture characteristic of  
      Mozambique at that time. 
      This cultural and aesthetic experience has profoundly  
      marked his artistic life.. 

    1959

      He comes to Europe for the first time 
      visiting Spain (Seville) and Portugal. 

    1960 

      He returns to Mozambique via Egypt, the Red 
      Sea, Mombassa, Zanzibar and Dar-es-Salaam. 

    1964

      He is self-taught and very soon devotes himself 
      to drawing, pastels, water colours and gouache. 
      His teacher at secondary school is the artist António 
      Heleno, who definitively inspires him to draw and he 
      receives an annual mark of 19 out of twenty for this subject.;

    1966

      He returns to Portugal via the Cape, Moçamedes, Lobito, 
      Luanda and Las Palmas. He settles in Lisbon with 
      his parents and brother and attends Vasco 
      de Gama Secondary School in Sintra; 

    1967

      He visits England, Scotland and Morocco and 
      returns to Mozambique; 
 
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6701 - Família acorrentada
Técnica mista s/papel / 20x19 cm 		 6702 - Destroços a cinzento 
Pastel s/papel / 25x36,5 cm 
 

    1968

      He attends drawing courses at the Lourenço Marques 
      Art Nucleus Drawing and Painting School, 
      where he produces his first oil paintings. 
      He exhibits his work in the 'Bússula' Cafe-Bar.. 
 
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6801 - Cavaleiro 
Pastel s/papel / 25x36,5 cm 		 6802 - Figura 
Pastel s/papel 25x36,5 cm 
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6803 - Grupo - Pastel s/papel - 33x 48 cm 
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6804 - Cabeça
Pastel s/papel / 33x48 cm 		 6805 - Grupo 
Pastel s/papel / 33x48 cm 
 

    1969

      He gives his first newspaper interview to 
      " Notícias " in Lourenço Marques on the 
      subject of "Existentialism". 
      He enrols as a student at Nuno Alvares Secondary 
      School in Tomar, Portugal. Here he produces large 
      allegorical paintings and commemorative banners 
      to be used in the flower festival. He produces thel 
      finayear students' medal and plate and collaborates 
      on the final year student newspaper where his 
      work is published for the first time.. 
      He decorates shop windows in Tomar. 
 
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