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.
On 1stDibs, discover a range of original Manolo Valdés prints, sculptures and mixed media.
$79,789
Manolo Valdés. Fan with white flowers. Mixed media on paper, laid down on board.
By Manolo Valdés
Located in Barcelona, CT
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...
Paper, Mixed Media, Board, Laid Paper
$1,680Sale Price|20% Off
H 30 in W 40 in D 0.25 in
Abstract Expressionist Original Gouache on paper Collage style of de Kooning
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstract Expressionist Original Gouache on paper and Collage Abstract Gouache and Paper Collage by Harold Winer (American, 1913-2006). Image 30"H x 40"W Slat with white paint .25" ...
Gouache, Illustration Board, Laid Paper
$7,500
H 49.5 in W 38 in D 0.25 in
'Abstract in Orchid and Jade', San Francisco Art Institute, Large Bay Area Oil
By Kevin Keaney
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
'Abstract in Orchid and Jade' by Kevin Keaney. San Francisco Art Institute, Large Bay Area Oil ---- Signed verso, 'Kevin Keaney' (American, born 1962) and painted circa 1995. This S...
Chalk, House Paint, Acrylic, Board, Laid Paper
Wrapped Statues/West Germany
By Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Located in Missouri, MO
Wrapped Statues/West Germany Christo (Bulgarian, 1935-2020) Mixed Media Hand-signed lower right Numbered PP 1/10 lower left 35 x 27 inches 39.25 x 31.2...
Paper, Mixed Media, Laid Paper, Lithograph
Problem 5 & Problem 6
Located in North Clarendon, VT
Set of 4 vibrant mixed media collage by Anne B. Cochrane. Bright, energetic, and emotionally strong. Creates in 1976 as a series, 8" x 8" mounted to card stock.
Mixed Media, Laid Paper
Christo: Max Magazin (Wrapped Reichstag)
By Christo
Located in Miami, FL
Christo Max Magazin (Wrapped Reichstag), 1994 Magazine cover 13 x 18 in Provenance: Jeschke Jádi Auctions Berlin GmbH, Berlin, Germany. Modern and Contemporary Art, 05 jul 2025. Lot...
Cardboard, Cord, Laid Paper
Portrait of a Young Man with Beret, 1896
Located in Stockholm, SE
Karl Johan Holter (Norway, 1870–1960) Young Man with Beret, 1896 chalk and white heightening on paper, paper mounted on board approx. 58 × 39 cm (unframed) / 22.8 × 15.4 in signed ...
Chalk, Board, Laid Paper, Pencil
$1,550
H 25.25 in W 34.75 in D 0.25 in
Abstract Expressionist Original Watercolor on Paper style of de Kooning
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstract Expressionist Original Watercolor on Paper style of de Kooning Abstract Watercolor titled "Lands End" by Harold Winer (American, 1913-2006). Bright and bold colors of a Fl...
Illustration Board, Laid Paper, Watercolor
$3,989
H 20.28 in W 13 in
The Artist Brother Staffan Kronberg Dressed as a Prince, 1911
Located in Stockholm, SE
Executed in 1911, just three years after Margherita Kronberg graduated from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, this early drawing portrays the artist’s younger brother, Staffan, dressed...
Mixed Media, Board, Laid Paper
$12,000
H 20.75 in Dm 18.5 in
"Untitled (C82-142)" Hannelore Baron, Mixed Media Collage, Abstract
By Hannelore Baron
Located in New York, NY
Hannelore Baron Untitled (C82-142), 1982 Signed and dated on the reverse Mixed media collage Sheet 12 1/4 x 10 1/2 inches Provenance: Manny Silverman ...
Fabric, Paper, Mixed Media, Laid Paper
$25,000
H 12.5 in W 12.5 in D 0.3 in
Kenneth Noland - Unique Chevron Collage, Signed ex-Honolulu Museum of Art Framed
By Kenneth Noland
Located in New York, NY
KENNETH NOLAND Untitled, for Trustees of the Honolulu Museum of Art, 1984 Mixed Media collage with silver and colored foil on board. Signed on verso (back) with personal inscriptio...
Foil
$2,000
H 22.5 in W 30.25 in
MIxed Media Collage Assemblage Abstract Expressionist Painting Female Aviator
By Vera Simons
Located in Surfside, FL
This is an Abstract Expressionist torn and folded paper painted collage. The paper is metallised through some process. they are very luminous and beautiful. it is mounted on heavy ...
Paint, Mixed Media, Laid Paper
$2,000
H 22.5 in W 30.25 in
MIxed Media Collage Assemblage Abstract Painting Pioneering Female Aviator
By Vera Simons
Located in Surfside, FL
This is an Abstract Expressionist torn and folded paper painted collage. The paper is metallicized through some process. they are very luminous and beautiful. it is mounted on heav...
Paint, Mixed Media, Laid Paper