Francisco Bores López (Madrid, May 5, 1898 - Paris, May 10, 1972) was a Spanish painter of the so-called New School of Paris.
His artistic training originated both in the Cecilio Pla painting academy, where he met Pancho Cossío, Manuel Ángeles Ortiz and Joaquín Peinado, and in Madrid literary gatherings related to ultraism.
At this time he made engravings and woodcuts for a large number of magazines such as Horizonte, Cruz y Raya, Índice, Revista de Occidente.
In 1925 he participated in the first exhibition of the Society of Iberian Artists.
In 1927 he held his first individual exhibition in Paris.
In the following years he continues to exhibit in different galleries in Paris, such as the Georges Petit Gallery, the Bernheim Gallery and the Vavin Raspail Gallery.
Contracts with Zwemmer Galleries in London and Galerie Simon in Paris.
In 1947 the French State acquired, for the first time, a work by Bores, in 1949 it was the Museum of Modern Art in New York that acquired his paintings.
He continues, sporadically, illustrating books (five linocuts "El Llanto por la muerte de Ignacio Sánchez Mejias" by Federico García Lorca, lithographs to illustrate the complete works of Albert Camus published by the French Imprimerie nationale in 1962).
selected works
Bodegón con medio limón
1941
Oil on canvas (50x61)
Nature morte à la palette, la pipe et la nappe bleue
1942
Oil on canvas (74x92)
Bodegón con raja de sandía
1943
Oil on canvas (46x55)