Bores, Fransico – “La Terre (Earth)”. Original lithograph commissioned by Verve magazine and published in 1937 in Verve No. 1.

Original lithograph commissioned by Verve magazine and published in 1937 in Verve No. 1. Part of the ‘The Four Elements’ series.

Francisco Bores was an important figure of twentieth-century European art. His presence was important among the second wave of Spanish artists who arrived in Paris in the 1920s, although in his own country he was not really recognized until well into the 1970s when aspects of his work that did not fit in with the dominant informalism and social realism were finally valued.

The style of Bores was forged following his close contact with the greatest painters of the century: Picasso and Matisse. He admired their manner of constructing forms, classicism, and later the cubist explosion. Bores harmonizes these influences in his work, and goes beyond them.