Francisco Bores

FRANCISCO BORÉS LÓPEZ (Madrid, 1898 - Paris, 1972).
Untitled. 1970
Gouache on cardboard.
Signed and dated in the lower right corner.
Enclosed certificate issued by Carmen Bores.
Measurements: 50 x 65 cm. 71,5 x 87 cm (frame)

Work made in the last years of the artist's career, clearly synthesizes the plastic language that Francisco Bores developed during his long stay in Paris. Far from both academicism and radical abstraction, Bores builds here a space of refined figuration, where reality is fragmented into wide and silent chromatic planes.

The compositional structure is articulated through organic forms and superimpositions that suggest nature and figure without making them explicit. The brushstroke is broad but reflective, with a constructive sense that reveals his constant concern for the internal architecture of the painting.

In this final stage, Bores reaches a serene synthesis, where formal simplification does not imply a loss of intensity, but rather purification. The work reflects that balance between modernity and intimate lyricism that characterizes his contribution to the so-called School of Paris and confirms the full maturity of his plastic language.

Francisco Borés is represented in the most important museums around the world, including the Georges Pompidou Center in Paris, the Fine Arts Museums of Bilbao, Buenos Aires, Jerusalem, Gothenburg and Baltimore, the MOMA in New York, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, the National Galleries of Athens and Edinburgh, the Museo Patio Herreriano in Valladolid, and the Modern Art Museums of Stockholm, Turin and Madrid.