Pedro Flores Garcia

PEDRO FLORES GARCÍA (Murcia, 1897 - Paris, 1967).
"Street of Paris".
Oil on canvas glued to tablex.
Signed in the lower left corner.
Measurements: 61 x 46 cm.
Pedro Flores was one of the great representatives of the School of Paris. He began his formation in workshops of decorative painting and later he studied in the Academy of Fine Arts of Murcia and in the Circle of Fine Arts. After working in lithography and photography, he achieved recognition in 1927 with an exhibition at the Dalmau Galleries in Barcelona together with Ramón Gaya and José Garay, and in 1928 he obtained a scholarship to settle in Paris, where he participated in important international exhibitions and came into contact with the European avant-garde. After the Civil War he returned to France and joined the so-called Spanish School of Paris, along with artists such as Pablo Picasso, Francisco Bores and Antoni Clavé.
Settled in Montparnasse, he developed an intense artistic activity making oil paintings, illustrations, tapestries and scenographies for institutions such as the Paris Opera and the National Theater of the Park in Brussels. In 1962 he returned temporarily to Murcia to decorate the dome of the Sanctuary of Fuensanta, and his work is now in important international museums, including the Centre Georges Pompidou, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía and the Museo Nacional de Arte de Cataluña.