FRANCISCO BORES LÓPEZ (Madrid, 1898 - Paris, 1972). "Femme davant la fenêtre", 1939. Oil on canvas. Signed and dated in the lower right corner. Provenance: - Galerie Simon, Paris (photo no.17.621B) - Galerie Marya, Copenhagen. Exhibitions: Galerie Marya, Copenhagen, 1961, cat. no. 3. Bibliography: DECHANET, Hélène: Francisco Bores. Catalogue Raisonné. Pintura. 1917 - 1944 (Vol. I). Telefónica and Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía. Madrid, 2003. pg. 378. Cat. no.: 1939/26. Size: 38 x 46 cm; 62 x 70 cm (frame). In this female portrait, the cubist trail has been distilled in the alembic of the creative genius of Bores, an artist who experimented with colour and form, reducing the palette to suggestive semitones and the silhouette to its minimal pulsations. A contemporary Spanish painter who belonged to the so-called New School of Paris, Francisco Bores trained at Cecilio Pla's painting academy, where he met Pancho Cossío, Manuel Ángeles Ortiz and Joaquín Peinado, among others. He also frequented the literary gatherings in Madrid associated with ultraism. During this period he made engravings for a large number of magazines, such as "Horizonte" and "Revista de Occidente", and attended Julio Moisés's Academia Libre, where he coincided with Dalí and Benjamín Palencia. In 1922 he took part for the first time in the National Exhibition of Fine Arts, and three years later he showed his work at the first Exhibition of the Society of Iberian Artists, but the Madrid public's lack of interest in young art prompted him to leave for Paris. In the French capital he came into contact with Picasso and Juan Gris, and made his individual debut in 1927, contracted by the Percier gallery. During these years, and through his friendship with Picasso, he began his relationship with the art critic Tériade, who devoted an extensive article to him in "Cahiers d'Art". It was at this point that his artistic career began to take off. In 1929 he took part in the exhibition "Pintores y escultores españoles residentes en París" (Spanish Painters and Sculptors Resident in Paris), held at the Botanical Gardens in Madrid. Around this time he also contributed to avant-garde magazines such as "Litoral", "La Bête Noire", "Martín Fierro", etc. In 1931 he had a solo exhibition at the Georges Bernheim gallery in Paris, and at the same time he signed a contract with the Swiss gallery owner Max Esiherberger. In 1932 and 1933 he exhibited at the Vavin-Raspail gallery in Paris, coinciding with the appearance of the first monograph on his painting. In the mid-1930s he was contracted by the Zwemmer gallery in London, where he held a solo exhibition. After the Second World War Bores resumed his exhibition activity and in 1947 the French state acquired a work by Bores for the first time. In 1949 the Museum of Modern Art in New York bought his paintings. Francisco Bores is represented in the most important museums all over the world, including the Centre Georges Pompidou 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, Brno and Edinburgh, the Museo Patio Herreriano in Valladolid, and the Modern Art Museums of Stockholm, Turin and Madrid.