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.
Manolo Valdes Etching, Untitled
By Manolo Valdés
Located in Miami, FL
Manolo Valdes Untitled, 2005 Etching, Aquatint, and collage on paper Ed. of 100 24 x 16 in
Etching, Aquatint
Dama con sombrero
By Manolo Valdés
Located in Miami, FL
Manolo Valdes Dama con sombrero, 2013 Etching and collage on paper Ed. 37 of 50, numbered on the lower left Signed on the lower right 47 x 37 in
Etching
La Dama de Argel
By Manolo Valdés
Located in Miami, FL
Manolo Valdes La Dama de Argel, 1997 Etching and collage on handmade paper Edition 10 of 50, published by Marlborough Graphics, NY 39 x 28 inches Includes a Certificate of Authentici...
Etching
FLORES 1
By Manolo Valdés
Located in New York, NY
This Manolo Valdes etching with unique color collage is the 34th edition of 50.
Etching
Price Upon Request
Perfil II - Signed Limited Edition Mixografía Print on Handmade Paper, 2003
By Manolo Valdés
Located in Palm Desert, CA
“Perfil II” is a Mixografía® print on handmade paper by Spanish artist, Manolo Valdés'. This print continues Valdés' career-long practice of reinterpreting historical portraiture. In...
Handmade Paper, Embossed Print
Price Upon Request
Perfil I - Signed Limited Edition Mixografía Print on Handmade Paper, 2003
By Manolo Valdés
Located in Palm Desert, CA
“Perfil I” is a Mixografía® print on handmade paper by Spanish artist, Manolo Valdés'. This print continues Valdés' career-long practice of reinterpreting historical portraiture. In ...
Handmade Paper, Embossed Print
Price Upon Request
PERLIF V
By Manolo Valdés
Located in New York, NY
This work of art is a print on handmade paper depicting the profile of a woman with pink hair.
Paper
Price Upon Request
Perfil V, Mixografia by Manolo Valdes
By Manolo Valdés
Located in Long Island City, NY
Date: 2004 Mixografia print on handmade paper, signed and numbered in pencil Edition of 25 Size: 44 x 31 in. (111.76 x 78.74 cm) Printer: Mixografia Publisher: Mixografia
Mixed Media, Monoprint
$3,385
H 34.65 in W 55.12 in D 0.04 in
Figure By Window, Art print, Figures, Modern, Contemporary
By Graham Fransella
Located in Deddington, GB
Figure By Window is a hand made limited edition print by Graham Fransella, displaying a black figure on a orange background. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Figure By Window Graham Fransel...
Etching
$600
H 30.5 in W 23.2 in
"Hand Knitters II" 2003 original hand signed engraving limited edition 30x23in.
By Agustín Bejarano
Located in Miami, FL
Agustin Bejarano (Cuba, 1964) 'Tejedoras de mano II', 2003 engraving on paper Guarro Biblos 250g. 30.6 x 23.3 in. (77.5 x 59 cm.) Edition of 20 Unfram...
Aquatint
$2,300
H 26.8 in W 33.3 in
Conceptual art photo engraving and screenprint 2005 27x33in hrs min kcal fat
Located in Miami, FL
Raul Cordero (Cuba, 1971) '32 hrs 53 min kcal: 783 fat: 35%', 2005 photo engraving and screenprint on paper Guarro Biblos 250g. 26.8 x 33.3 in. (68 x 84.5...
Screen, Engraving, Aquatint
$2,500
H 24 in W 32 in
Kylix Collage Print, Figurative, 1986, Edition 102 of 300, 24x32(Frame Included)
Located in New York, NY
Intaglio etching and collage print on hand-marbled paper by New Orleans artist Frances Swigart (b. 1942), titled "Kylix," created in 1986. This impression is numbered 102 from the ed...
Color, Print
$55,000
H 33.5 in W 67 in
Ada in Blue Hat - 2004 - Aquatint in 11 colors - Portrait of Ada Katz in Maine
By Alex Katz
Located in Miami, FL
Ada in Blue Hat 2004 Aquatint in 11 colors 33 1/2 x 67 in. Edition of 75 Pencil signed and numbered With flat planes of rich, lovely color, Alex Katz’s landscapes and portraits evok...
Aquatint
$1,745
H 26.19 in W 19.49 in D 0.04 in
To you the Tarzans, Kate Boxer, limited edition print, contemporary
By Kate Boxer
Located in Deddington, GB
To you the Tarzans Drypoint, handcoloured Limited edition print Edition of 30 Image Size 66.5 x 49.5 cms (26 1/8 x 19 1/2 in) Unframed ARTIST BIOGRAPHY: Kate Boxer makes the plates...
Drypoint, Chine Colle
$500
H 16 in W 11 in
Nocturnal Vision, by Yuji Hiratsuka, Original Chine Collé Intaglio Print
By Yuji Hiratsuka
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Medium: Intaglio on handmade washi paper Year: 2026 Image Size : 16" H x 11" W Edition size: 15 Nocturnal Vision by Yuji Hiratsuka is an original chine collé color intaglio that exp...
Etching, Aquatint, Chine Colle
$380
H 10.5 in W 7 in
Creatures of Land, Sea and Sky Print, Intaglio and Chine Colle, 2023
By Yuji Hiratsuka
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Medium: Intaglio and Chine Colle Year: 2023 Image Size: 10.5 x 7 inches Edition of 15 Signed, titled and numbered by the artist. A young woman contemplating small plants and animals...
Etching, Aquatint
$1,554
H 28.51 in W 28.51 in D 0.04 in
Stella, Kate Boxer, limited edition print, contemporary
By Kate Boxer
Located in Deddington, GB
Stella Drypoint, handcoloured Limited edition print Edition of 30 Image Size 72.4cm H x 72.4cms W (28 1/2 x 28 1/2 in) Unframed ARTIST BIOGRAPHY: Kate Boxer makes the plates in her...
Drypoint, Chine Colle
$2,250
H 24.49 in W 24.49 in
Barrafina Diner, Kate Boxer, limited edition print, contemporary
By Kate Boxer
Located in Deddington, GB
Barrafina Diner Drypoint, carborundum and gouache Edition of 30 Image Size 33 1/2 x 23 1/2 in 84.5 x 59.2 cms ARTIST BIOGRAPHY: Kate Boxer makes the plates in her studio which are...
Drypoint, Chine Colle
$650
H 24 in W 12 in
The Letter, Xavier Viramontes Chicano Artist Studio Color Etching
By Xavier Viramontes
Located in Palm Springs, CA
The Letter by Xavier Viramontes is an intimate, multilayered portrait of a young artist’s inner world, composed through the objects and images gathered on his workspace. A handwritte...
Etching, Aquatint
"I'll Be Your Mirror", Intaglio Print, Still Life Print
By Katie VanVliet
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "I'll Be Your Mirror" is a limited edition piece by Kate VanVliet and is made from intaglio with soft ground, sugarlift, aquatint and spit bite on Rives BFK. This p...
Etching, Aquatint, Intaglio
Claribel
By Manolo Valdés
Located in New York, NY
AP of 10 Signed and numbered in pencil Framed under plexi
Lithograph
REINA MARIANA VI
By Manolo Valdés
Located in Aventura, FL
Hand signed and numbered by the artist. Etching and collage on paper. Edition of 50. Additional images available upon request. Certificate of authenticity included. Artwork in excel...
Paper, Etching
MARIANA V
By Manolo Valdés
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Original engraving and Collage Signed by VALDES Limited edition 50 copis Signed and numbered by the artist in pencil BLASCO VALDES Manolo (Valencia, 1...
Engraving