Pedro Flores Garcia

Pedro Flores Garcia (Murcia, 1897 - Paris, 1967) was a painter of the Region of Murcia, Spain.

He was born in Murcia on February 5, 1897, in a humble family. During his childhood he studied at a Marist school and the Jesuit school, but at ten years old began working as an apprentice in a decorative paint shop. In 1908 he began attending classes at the Academy of Fine Arts at the Royal Economic Society of Friends of the Country and then continued in the Art's school. Later, he began working in a lithographic factory with Luis Garay where he learned some photographic techniques. He used photographs taken near the orchards of Murcia as inspiration. He soon obtained several awards with his paintings in 1927 and obtained a great appreciation of criticism in the exhibition conducted by Ramón Gaya and Luis Garay in Gallery Dalmau Barcelona.

In 1928 he received a grant to continue his studies of art in Paris. He moved to the French capital and lived there for over five years. He returned to Madrid for a short period in 1933, but soon moved to Barcelona to teach drawing at the Balmes Institute. At the end of the Spanish Civil War he returned to Paris and became part of the so-called Spanish School of Paris which included other painters such as Pablo Picasso, Ginés Parra, Francisco Bores, Antoni Clavé, etc. He did most of his work in his study off Montparnasse, in addition to his paintings artwork, he also made tapestries and staging grounds. For a short period he returned to Murcia in 1962 to decorate the dome of the Sanctuary of Fuensanta. Later, having completed the work, he returned to Paris, where he died in 1967.

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