Francisco Bores, Pluvioso, original strip
for the cover of the Revista de Occidente, year III,
issue XX, Madrid, February 1925. India ink, watercolour
and colour pencil on paper, 30 x 21,5 cm.
Revista de Occidente is one of the most meaningful and significant of the numerous publications that were edited in Spain within the context of the Edad de Plata. Founded and directed by José Ortega y Gasset in 1923 it was, together with its appended publishing house, the main platform for Spanish modernity. Since its first issue, Bores created numerous cover strips and colophons for the Revista de Occidente. The Residencia preserves both the original work and the magazine issue in which the artwork appeared. Bores' collaboration spread to the editorial field as well, since in 1925 he made the cover art for El decamerón negro by Leo Frobenius, Cantos y cuentos del antiguo Egipto o El estupendo cornudo, by Fernando Crommelynck.