Timeline

Francisco Bores was born in Madrid in 1898 and, after a privileged childhood he entered the College of Roads, Canals and Ports Engineers, which --together with his Law studies-- he would abandon to devote himself exclusively to painting. In 1916 he entered Cecilio Pla's Academy, where he studied for 3 years together with Pancho Cossio, Manuel Angeles Ortiz and Joaquin Peinado.

In 1925, the artist--who was involved in the Ultraist movement-- took part in the First Exhibition of Iberian Artists, where he was rejected by the public, so he decided to move to Paris. Once there, he struck up a friendship with Picasso, Juan Gris and Gargallo, and met the art dealers Jacques Berheim and Léonce Rosenberg, relating to the Pierre and Percier Gallery, where he opened his first individual exhibition and started selling his works.

In 1930 he married Raïa Perewozka, with whom he had two children, and settled with her in Paris. During the following years, due to the Spanish Civil War and the Second World War, the family repeatedly alternated their place of residence between Spain and France, but it was in Paris where the artist would work for almost half a century and where he would spend his last days.

He became a member of the Paris School. In 1966 he was appointed Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, a decoration granted by the Minister of Culture at the time, André Malraux.

The artist opened several individual exhibitions in Paris, at the Galleries Louis Carré, Bernheirm, Vavin Raspail, Simon, Gallerie de France, du Pont-Royal and Braun Gallery; in London, at the Zemmer Gallery and the Molton Gallery; in the United States, at The Arts Club of Chicago, The Stanley Rose Gallery in Hollywood, Buchholz Gallery in New York and the Albert Loeb Gallery; he also exhibited in Brussels, Oslo, Switzerland and Denmark. His personal views made it impossible for him to exhibit in Spain until the year 1971, when he opened his first individual exhibition at the Theo Gallery in Madrid, obtaining remarkable success with the press and the public. He died one year later, at the age of 74.

His works may be found at New York's Museum of Modern Art, the National Art Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris and the Reina Sofia National Art Centre in Madrid, among others.