Bores, Francisco.
Works of the artist.
Bores was born in Madrid in 1898 and died in Paris in 1972. His artistic training began in the academy of Cecilio Pla, where he met Pancho Cossío, Manuel Ángeles Ortiz or Joaquín Peinado, as well as in Madrid’s literary gatherings related to ultraism. [+]
Bores, Francisco
Bores was born in Madrid in 1898 and died in Paris in 1972.
His artistic training began in the academy of Cecilio Pla, where he met Pancho Cossío, Manuel Ángeles Ortiz or Joaquín Peinado, as well as in Madrid’s literary related to ultraism.
Throughout his career he made engravings and woodcuts for a big number of magazines such as Horizonte, Cruz y Raya, Índice or Revista de Occidente. In 1922 he participated in the National Exhibiton of Fine Arts and in 1925 in the first exhibition of the Iberian Artists Society. The limited success of this exhibiton pushed him to go to Paris where he shared a studio with the spanish artists Pancho Cossío. In Paris he also met Picasso and Juan Gris.
In 1927 he held his first solo exhibition in Paris. After that, Bores became part of the parisian artistic movement, where he remained practically for the rest of his life. In 1928 he exhibited for the first time in an american gallery and two years later in a collective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art of New York.
In the following years he continued to showcase his work in different art galleries in Paris, like Georges Petit, Bernheim and Vayin Raspail.
He also participated in different collective exhibitions, such as the Spanish Contemporary Art exhibition at the Museum Jeu de Paume in Paris, while he also illustrated books and art magazines such as Minotauro.
During this time he got contracts with Zwemmer Gallery in London and Galerie Simon in Paris, as well as exhibitions in the United States at the Buchholz Gallery of New York.
In 1947 the french estate acquired, for the first time, an artwork by Bores and in 1949 the Museum of Modern Art of New York followed the same footsteps. In 1954 Bores became part of the painters of the Galerie Louis Carré, one of the most prestigious galleries in Paris.
Throughout the rest of his life, Bores continued exhibiting in Europe: France, Germany, Denmark and Italy, among others. As well as illustrating books (five linocuts El Llanto por la muerte de Ignacio Sánchez Mejias by Federico García Lorca; lithographs to illustrate the complete works by Albert Camus published for the french Imprimerie Nationale in 1962). One of the last exhibitions that he experienced happened in 1969 and in 1971 at Galería Theo in Madrid.
