Francisco BORÈS (1898-1972) Composition with apples, 1928 Oil on canvas. Signed and dated upper right. 22 x 27 cm Provenance : - André Level Collection. By descent. - Sale André Level Collection, Ader, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, November 15, 2016, no. 22. - Private collection, Paris. Acquired at the previous sale. In L'Intransigeant dated June 26, 1927, Maurice Raynal wrote about the Francisco Borès exhibition at Galerie Percier, held from June 23 to July 7, 1927: "Borès is a young man who prefers to work outside all the literature of the "ism" schools, which are a little out of fashion today, to develop the romanticism of his age within the framework of the discoveries of his great elders, Braque and Picasso. But his romanticism remained very much pictorial. His vision revels in the composition of plastic rhythms, from which any extra-lucid storytelling is banished. A severe inspiration borrows from natural elements that do not exceed the legitimate resources of the painter. And the expression of his work is directed by an excessively fine, sometimes vigorous colorist's talent, rich in often original plastic or colored harmonies".