Francisco Boron

Francisco Boron , often spelled Boron , (May 6th 1898, Madrid - May 10th 1972, Paris) is a Spanish painter pertaining to the news École of Paris.

Biography

After its studies Francisco Bores López in 1916 enters to the academy of Cecilio Pla, where it remains three years, and carries out with the Prado copies of Velasquez, Goya and Titien. It takes part starting from 1922 in the official living rooms then collaborates in various reviews.

Francisco Bores decides in 1925 to leave to Paris, settles with Montparnasse and becomes acquainted with Picasso and Juan Gris. After first contacts with the merchants Jacques Bernheim and Leonce Rosenberg, it presents a first personal exposure to the Percier gallery in 1927, which is worth to him an eulogistic article of Teriade in the review Cahiers of art . It meets then Jules Supervielle, max Jacob, Jean Cocteau, Raymond Radiguet, Aragon, André Breton, Paul Éluard, Man Ray, André Beaudin.

In 1929 Francisco Bores remains with Grasse and Cagnes with Taïa Perewoska, which it met the previous year in Paris with the coffee of the Dome and which it marries in 1930, spending the summer at Tériade then of Picasso. His/her Carmen daughter is born in 1931. It makes the same year the knowledge of the sculptors Alberto Giacometti and Henri Laurens. Exposing regularly to the Vavin-Raspail gallery, it passes in 1933 of the holidays to Varengeville with Pierre Reverdy, meeting Braque there then, for economic reasons, returns with its family to Madrid in her mother.

Francisco Bores exposes to London in 1934 with André Beaudin and Salvador Dali and takes part in the exposure Minotaure organized by E.L.T. Mesens to the Palate of the Art schools of Brussels. In 1935 it signs a contract with Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, director of the Simon gallery and goes back to Madrid until the civil war. His/her son Daniel (homage to Kahnweiler) is born in 1937. After the release of the Bores second world war in 1940 with Saint-Jean-with-Luz settles, where it meets Matisse daily.

Of return to Paris in 1941, it takes part in the exposure of the Twenty young painters of French tradition , goes back in 1943 to Madrid with its family which remains there until in 1945, but returns to Paris while appears to Five painters d´aujourd´hui, Borès, Beaudin, Gischia, Estève, Pignon (text of Roger Lesbats), published by André Lejard. Participant in many exposure collective in France and abroad, it presents personal exposures to the Galerie of France (1946 and 1949), with the Apollo gallery of Brussels (1946), with the gallery Pierre (1950), with the gallery Louis Carré (1954, 1956, 1957 and 1962), at Pierre Berès (1960).

Francisco Bores carries out in 1961 a series of lithographies for the illustration of complete works of Albert Camus published by the HMSO. It exposes to the gallery Villand and Galanis, at the sides of Chastel, Estève, Jacques Lagrange, Gischia, Lapicque, in 1964, 1966 (foreword of Roger van Gindertael) and 1967.

After its death about fifty exposures of its works were organized of which important retrospectives, in particular with the gallery Villand and Galanis (1975), with the Museum of history and art of Luxembourg (1976), with Madrid (1976), in Artcurial (Paris, 1982), with the museum of Santander (1985) and with the National museum Queen Sophie of Madrid (1999).

Sources

  • Site (in Spanish) devoted to Francisco Boron (biography, exposures, bibliography, many images).

Museums

Argentinian

Spain

  • Museo de Bellas Artes, Bilbao
  • National museum Queen Sophie, Madrid (21 paintings, 150 drawings, 10 gouaches)
  • Museo Municipal of Arte contemporáneo, Madrid
  • Institut Valencia d' Art Modern, Valencia
  • Museo de Bellas Artes, Bilbao
  • Museo Patio Herreriano, Valladolid

the United States

France

  • Funds national of Contemporary art, Paris
  • Museum of Modern art of the Town of Paris, Paris
  • National museum of Modern art - Center Georges Pompidou, Paris

  • Museum of the Art schools of Bordeaux

  • Castle - Museum of Dieppe
  • Museum of Grenoble
  • Palate of the Art schools of Lille
  • municipal Museum of Limoges
  • Museum of the Art schools of Nantes
  • Tavet-Dabacour Museum of Pontoise

Greece

  • National Gallery Aleyandros Soutzos Museum, Athens

Israel

Italy

  • Galleria Civica d' Arte Moderna E Contemporanea, Turin

Luxembourg

  • National museum of History and Art, Luxembourg

the United Kingdom

  • Scottish National Gallery off Modern Art, Edinburgh
  • Ashmolean Museum At the University off Oxford

Sweden

Swiss

Tchéquie
  • Národní Gallery, Prague
  • Moravian Gallery, Brno

Selective bibliography

  • Lesbats, Roger, Five painters of today , editions of the Oak, Paris, 1943
  • Raynal, Maurice, Painters of the XXè century , editions Albert Skira, Geneva, 1947
  • Hake, Robert, Jarlot, Gerard and Salgue, Yves, keys of the modern art , editions of the Roundtable, Paris, 1955
  • Lassaigne, Jacques, Dictionary of modern painting , editions Fernand Hazan, Paris, 1955
  • Courthion, Pierre, independent Art , editions Albin Michel, Paris, 1958
  • Attic, Jean, Tests on contemporary painting , Gallimard editions, Paris, 1959
  • Nacenta, Raymond, the School of Paris , Seghers editions, Paris, 1960
  • Attic, Jean, Boron , editions Liveliness, Paris, 1961
  • Diehl, Gaston, modern painting in the world , Flammarion editions, Paris, 1961
  • Muller, Joseph Emile, Art at the XXè century , Larousse Editions, Paris, 1967
  • Chávarri, Raoul, will pintura It española actual , Ibérico Europea de Ediciones, Madrid, 1973
  • Xuriguera, Gerard, Pintores españoles of the escuela of París , Ibérico Europea de Ediciones, Madrid, 1974
  • Persin, Patrick-Gilles, the adventure of a large merchant of art Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler , Library of Arts, editor Solange Thierry, Paris, 1990
  • Dechanet, Helene, Catálogo Razonado Pintura, tomo I: 1917-1944 , tomo II: 1945-1972 , Museo Nacional Central of Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, 2003 (1190 pages) and

External bonds

  • Boron in the collections of the National museum Reina Sofia of Madrid (2 images)
  • Boron in the collections of the MOMA of New York (1 image)
  • Boron in the collections of the Museum of San Francisco
  • Boron in the collections of Ashmolean Museum At the University off Oxford

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