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Gene Mako is a life long resident of Los Angeles, California, except for his early childhood years when he traveled from Hungary, where he was born, via Argentina with his parents. He attended the University of Southern California and he was the university’s first athlete to win a national individual collegiate title. Accomplished in a number of sports, he excelled at tennis. By the time he was nineteen, he was a member of the Davis Cup Team, and he won the mixed doubles at the U.S. Open at the age of twenty. In 1937 and 1938 he along with his doubles partner, Don Budge, won Wimbledon titles. Among his many awards, Gene Mako is a member of the University of Southern California Athletes Hall of Fame, and he is a member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame.

It should come as no surprise that growing up in a learned household where art was omnipresent would have a significant impact on the young Mako. In the years following his tennis career, from his base in Los Angeles Gene Mako established a long, successful career as an art dealer. The lessons learned from his father proved essential to his ability to discern good art during his frequent buying trips to London, New York, Paris, and Philadelphia.

Left unfinished however was the task of assembling in one place the corpus of his father’s incredibly productive career that spanned over sixty years. Thus, he embarked on a decade long effort to capture and identify in one place the body of work of a most prolific artist, Bartholomew Mako, a true Hungarian master!