| Francisco Bores: A major Spanish painter, designer, illustrator and printmaker, Francisco Bores first studied art in Madrid at the Cecilio Pla Academy (1916). Francisco Bores began participating in Spanish National Exhibitions as early as 1922. In 1925 he moved to the Montparnasse district of Paris.
In Paris, Francisco Bores became friends with a number of leading Surrealist painters and writers, such as, Jean Cocteau, Louis Aragon, Andre Breton and Paul Eluard. By 1929, however, his prints and paintings moved towards a more realist and less abstract plane. Important exhibitions of Francisco Bores's art took place in Zurich (1929), The Hague (1932), Brussels (1934), London (1935), Chicago (1936), Stockholm (1937) and New York (1939). In 1946 he participated in the famous School of Paris Exposition, Berne. Francisco Bores was appointed 'Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres' by the government of France in 1966. |
