 He returned to Paris to paint on several occasions, with the last being in the 1980s when he did a series of self-portraits including those which likened him to Van Gogh, Michelangelo and Rembrandt .He was married to Dolores Almada.Flores was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 2000, which he documented in a self-portrait named "Hombre con temblor en la mano izquierda" ("Man with shaking in the left hand").