Bores is born in Madrid on 6th May.

After finishing his studies in the School of the Conception, he studies Engineering and Law but leaves both degrees unfinished in order to dedicate more time to painting.

Bores and His family

He enters the Cecilio Pla academy, where he will remain for three years. He studies with models for the first time. He studies together with Pancho Cossío, Manuel Ángeles Ortiz and Joaquin Peinado, amongst others.
In the Prado Museum, he makes copies from Velázquez, Goya and Titian.

He is in touch with the Ultraist movement. He frequents literary circles and participates in important literary gatherings. From then until 1928, he publishes woodcuts in numerous magazines, such as Alfar, Horizonte, Tobogán, Cruz y Raya, Indice, Sí and España. He produces numerous vignettes for the covers of the Revista de Occidente. He attends the Julio Moisés Academy, where he coincides with Dalí and Benjamín Palencia .

Summer spent in Juan-les-Pins, where he meets with Joaquín Peinado and Sabartés, amongst others.

He begins to paint in a less abstract way. In the summer, he travels to Grasse and Cros-de-Cagnes, accompanied by Raïa Perewozka, whom he had met in 1928 in Paris in the Café du Dôme. "... a stay in the Midi, near Grasse, precipitates things: I felt subjugated by the light, the fruits, the women of that region. And again I began to paint landscapes and figures ".
He exhibits his work at the Salon des Surindépendants.
He takes part in the exhibition of painting and sculpture by resident Spanish artists in Paris, held at the Botanic Gardens in Madrid, and in several group exhibitions: one in Zurich, Peintres de Paris , and two other exhibitions at the Galerie Vavin-Raspail in París, in May and October respectively.

Contract with the Zwemmer Gallery in London to hold a single artist exhibition in November.
He illustrates the poems of Jean Paul Collet, La Vie même (Paris, G.L.M.) and he contributes drawings to La Bête noire.
He takes part in the painting and sculpture exhibition at the Collège d'Espagne in the Cité Universitaire in Paris.
In July, with the signing of a renewable contract, he makes his first contact with Daniel-Henry Khanweiler, director of the Galerie Simòn in Paris.
In September, he returns to Madrid with his family, where he will remain until the outbreak of the Civil War.

He takes part in the exhibition L´art espagnol contemporain at theJeu de Paume in Paris.
Single artist exhibition at The Arts Club in Chicago.

He moves to the Rue Villa Saint-Jacques, where he will remain until the end of his life.
His son Daniel is born in Paris. He is named Daniel after Daniel-Henry Khanweiler.
First single artist exhibition at the Galerie Simon.
He forms part of the Spanish Pavilion at the Petit Palais and of two group exhibitions in Stockholm and Copenhagen.

He and his family return to Paris.
He forms part of the sample collection, Vingt jeunes peintres de tradition française at the Galerie Braun in Paris.
He continues to work with the Galerie Simon and he makes an agreement with the Galerie Alfred Poyet.

He works with the Galerie Renou et Colle.

In view of the worsening situation in France, he travels to Madrid with his family. He returns to Paris in September, but his family will remain in Spain until 1945.
Book Presentation: Cinq peintres d´aujourd´hui (Borés, Beaudin, Gischia, Estève, Pignon), with text by Roger Lesbats, and edited by André Léjard.
He stops working with the Galerie Simon but continues to collaborate with the Galerie Renou et Colle and the Galerie Alfred Poyet.
First contact with the dealer Louis Carré, who buys some of his works.

He paints one of his few large works from that period: L´Eté. Single artist exhibition at the Galerie Renou et Colle.

He takes part in numerous group exhibitions, both in France and abroad: Brussels, Rome, New York, Dublin, Ottawa, Luxembourg and The Hague.

Two single artist exhibitions at the Galerie de France in Paris and the Galeries Apollo in Brussels.
He takes part in the exhibition El Arte en la España Republicana - Artistas Españoles de la Escuela de París in Prague, where he exhibits his painting, Espagne (1937), and also in the Art et Résistance exhibition in Paris.
Through the Danish painter Mogens Andersen, he renews his commercial contact with Denmark and Sweden.

French museums purchase his work Nature morte au biscuit, one of the numerous acquisitions that they will continue to make until the sixties, thereby attaining a large representation of Bores' work, which is distributed amongst the museums and The National Foundation.

Single artist exhibition at the Kunstforeningen in Copenhagen.

Four single artist exhibitions at the Galerie Moos in Geneva and Zurich, at the Galerie Per in Oslo and at the Galerie de France in Paris.
The Museum of Modern Art in New York buys L'Essayage (Souvenir imaginaire) (1934), one of the largest of Bores' paintings.

Single artist exhibitions at the Galerie Pierre in Paris, at the Birchs Kunsthandel in Copenhagen, and at the Konstmuseum in Aalborg.

He forms part of the group of artists who collaborate with the Galerie Louis Carré in Paris.
Single artist exhibition at the Galerie Artek in Helsinki, and at some group exhibitions: L'Ecole de París,1900-1950 exhibition at The Royal Academy of Arts in London, and also the Peintres Parisiens de la Deuxième génération at the Kunsthalle in Basle, amongst others. His first granddaughter, Anne, is born.

He takes part in the Malerei en París Heute exhibition at the Kunsthaus in Zurich.

He takes part in various group exhibitions in Lausanne, Turin, Gotteburg, Japan, Australia, Israel and also at the Galerie Louis Carré.

First single artist exhibition at the Galerie Louis Carré, with works ranging from 1951 to 1954. A catalogue is published with illustrations and vignettes by Bores and a presentation text by Tériade.
This exhibition is repeated at the Svensk-Franska Konstgalleriet in Stockholm.

He takes part in numerous group exhibitions.
First collaboration with the Carnegie Institute Award in Pittsburgh with Le Pêcheur (1953), the work chosen for the poster of the event.
From 1954 to 1959, he will regularly exhibit his works at the Galerie Charpentier in Paris at their annual exhibition dedicated to the Paris School. His grandaughter, Hélène, is born.

Single artist exhibition at the Galerie Louis Carré with the catalogue prologue written by Jacques Lassaigne.
Monographic article published by Jean Grenier in the magazine L'Œil.

Single artist exhibition at the Galerie Louis Carré, with the catalogue prologue by Jacques Lassaigne and an interview by Jean-José Marchand.

Second collaboration with the Carnegie Institute Award in Pittsburgh with Nu devant la mer (1957).
Single artist exhibition of gouaches at the Galerie du Pont Royal in Paris.

Three single artist exhibitions, two in New York at the Albert Loeb Gallery and the Pierre Berés Inc., and another at the Molton Gallery in London, mainly of works on paper.

Single artist exhibition at the Galerie Louis Carré in Paris.

Exhibition of selected works at the Crane Kalman Gallery in London.

First exhibition of gouaches at the Galerie Villand et Galanis in Paris. He designs stained glass windows for the Chapel of the Montbrison Seminary in France, and he produces a series of five linen prints to illustrate El llanto por la muerte de Ignacio Sánchez Mejias, by Federico García Lorca, for a German publication.

He is nominated Officier de L'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. Single artist exhibition at the Galerie Villand et Galanis, with the catalogue prologue written by R.V. Gindertael.
He illustrates Le neveu de Rameau, by Diderot, for the Propyläen publishing company in Berlin

Two single artist exhibitions at the Galleria Pagani in Milan and at the Galerie Villand et Galanis.
He exhibits once more at the Salon d'Automne and at a group exhibition at the Crane Kalman Gallery

He paints very few oils but experiments with felt tip pens, thereby leaving a large collection of drawings which have very special characteristics