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Manolo Valdes Mixed Media

Spanish, b. 1942

From his audacious Pop art paintings that challenged Spanish dictator Francisco Franco’s regime during the 1960s to his modern reinterpretation of works by masters such as Rembrandt van Rijn, Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, Valencia native Manolo Valdés has created an extraordinary range of work. He is internationally renowned as one of the most influential Spanish artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. 

Born in 1942, Valdés studied art at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Carlos de Valencia. As his career began to take shape, in 1964, Valdés cofounded Equipo Crónica with fellow Spanish artists Rafael Solbes and Juan Antonio Toledo. Together, the collective produced politically charged graphic Pop works, which frequently merged imagery that referenced Spain’s history and culture, in order to expressly denounce Franco’s oppressive government. Toledo left Equipo Crónica after one year, and the group disbanded after Solbes’s death in 1981.  

From 1981 onward, Valdés focused on his solo career. In his portraits, still-life prints and figurative sculptures, Valdés adopts familiar images from masterpieces by some of the world’s most recognizable artists, including Diego Velázquez, Peter Paul Rubens and Roy Lichtenstein, and recontextualizes them, minimalizing forms and the use of color, introducing collagist elements and more. Examples of Valdés’s methods can be seen in the textured lithograph print Claribel (1995) and his contemporary sculpture Butterflies (2010), which is inspired by Matisse’s Woman with a Hat (1905).

Valdés has exhibited his works around the world, including in New York City, Paris, London, Madrid, Berlin, Geneva and Mexico City. In 1999, he represented Spain at the Venice Biennale. His paintings and sculptures are also held in the collections of the Centre Pompidou in Paris, Moderna Museet in Malmö, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid and the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. 

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Artist: Manolo Valdes
Manolo Valdés. Fan with white flowers. Mixed media on paper, laid down on board.

Manolo Valdés. Fan with white flowers. Mixed media on paper, laid down on board.

By Manolo Valdés

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Manolo Valdés ( Valencia, 1942). "Fan with white flowers". 1994. Mixed media on paper, laid down on board. 78.7 x 104.1 cm. Signed in the lower right corner. Provenance: - Priv...

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Manolo Valdes mixed media for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Manolo Valdes mixed media available for sale on 1stDibs. You can also browse by medium to find art by Manolo Valdes in etching, paper, lithograph and more. Not every interior allows for large Manolo Valdes mixed media, so small editions measuring 13 inches across are available. Customers who are interested in this artist might also find the work of Alberto Sanchez, Manel Pujol Baladas, and Antonio Asis. Manolo Valdes mixed media prices can differ depending upon medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $6,500 and tops out at $7,500, while the average work can sell for $7,000.