Manolo Valdes Prints and Multiples
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.
1970s Contemporary Manolo Valdes Prints and Multiples
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1980s Abstract Manolo Valdes Prints and Multiples
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20th Century Contemporary Manolo Valdes Prints and Multiples
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Manolo Valdes Prints and Multiples
Etching, Aquatint
2010s Contemporary Manolo Valdes Prints and Multiples
Etching
Early 2000s Contemporary Manolo Valdes Prints and Multiples
Paper
Early 2000s Modern Manolo Valdes Prints and Multiples
Mixed Media, Monoprint
Early 2000s Contemporary Manolo Valdes Prints and Multiples
Screen, Engraving, Aquatint
2010s Abstract Impressionist Manolo Valdes Prints and Multiples
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1960s Abstract Manolo Valdes Prints and Multiples
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Manolo Valdes Prints and Multiples
Etching, Woodcut
1960s Abstract Manolo Valdes Prints and Multiples
Etching, Aquatint
2010s Abstract Expressionist Manolo Valdes Prints and Multiples
Paper, Etching
1980s Contemporary Manolo Valdes Prints and Multiples
Drypoint, Etching, Aquatint
1980s Contemporary Manolo Valdes Prints and Multiples
Etching, Aquatint, Paper
1980s Contemporary Manolo Valdes Prints and Multiples
Etching, Aquatint
1990s Contemporary Manolo Valdes Prints and Multiples
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Manolo Valdes Prints and Multiples
Etching, Aquatint
2010s Contemporary Manolo Valdes Prints and Multiples
Etching, Aquatint
Late 20th Century Pop Art Manolo Valdes Prints and Multiples
Lithograph
Early 2000s Pop Art Manolo Valdes Prints and Multiples
Paper, Etching
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Manolo Valdes Prints and Multiples
Engraving
