Juana Mordó

Juana Mordó (April 26, 1899 – March 12, 1984) was born in Thessaloniki, Ottoman Empire (now Greece) and was an art dealer and gallery director in Madrid, Spain.

Mordó, a Spanish passport holder, decided to leave for Switzerland with her husband shortly before the start of World War II.

Other interviews and works on various topics would follow including travel, visits to Spanish cities, literary, social, and festive themes, all announced with her signature greeting, "Mes chers auditeurs".

In a desire to animate the intellectual environment of Madrid, Mordó summoned writers and artists on Saturdays to her home on Rodriguez de San Pedro Street.

In the Autumn of 1953, the first International Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition was inaugurated in the Retiro Park, which promoted the General Direction of Fine Arts and the Society of Friends of the Landscape and the Gardens.

The gallery showcased artists of El Paso and the generation of the great Spanish informalism in which Mordó curated some very influential exhibitions.

It was inaugurated with a group exhibition of artists: Vicente Ameztoy, Amalia Avia, Jaime Burguillos,[1] José Caballero, Rafael Canogar, Eduardo Chillida, Enrique Gran,[2] José Guerrero, Carmen Laffón, Antonio Lopez Garcia, Julio Lopez Hernandez, Francisco Lozano, Manolo Millares, Manuel Hernández Mompó, Lucio Muñoz, Gaston Orellana, Alejandro Kingdom,[3] Manuel Rivera, Juan de Ribera Berenguer, Luis Sáez, Antonio Saura, Eusebio Sempere, Pablo Serrano, Antonio Suarez, Antoni Tapies, Gustavo Torner and Fernando Zobe.

[5] Additional acquisitions (legacy Mordó-Alvear) arrived at the San Fernando Academy including 57 pieces by authors such as Rafael Canogar, Gustavo Torner, Bonifacio Alfonso and an engraved plate by Dalí.