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
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
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
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 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 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
$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
Japanese Diarist Doll in Glass Case - Silkscreen
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful silkscreen of Japanese diarist doll in glass case. Illegibly signed left corner, dated (October 8, 1983) and numbered (2/30). Presented in wood frame. Image size: 20"H x 14...
Rice Paper, Ink
$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
$1,071
H 13.39 in W 8.27 in
Forest X - 21st Century Contemporary Landscape Etching
By Charles Donker
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Charles Donker Forest X 34 x 21 (Framed included in price, 41,5 x 56,5 cm) Etching on paper The etchings of Charles Donker are admired and collected both in the Netherlands and abro...
Etching
$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
$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
$4,697
H 18.12 in W 25.6 in D 1.58 in
Funny - 21stC, Contemporary, Japanese, Fantasy, Natural Materials
By Mari Ito
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
Mari Ito was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1980. She majored in Nihonga, Japanese-style painting made with traditional practices, techniques and materials. She moved to Barcelona (Spain) i...
Glue, Sumi Ink, Wood Panel, Washi Paper, Pigment
My Bicentennial Print
By Herbert L. Fink
Located in Fairlawn, OH
My Bicentennial Print Photo etching, 1976 Signed and dated in pencil lower right (see photo) Titled and numbered in pencil loer left (see photo) Edition: 21 (16/21) There also appears to be an additon of 100. Condition: Excellent Image/Plate size: 14 1/2 x 19 3/4 inches Sheet size: 22 1/8 X 30 inches The artist's commentrary on the Bicentennial Year of 1976 In 1965 Fink was awarded a Gugenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship for Fine Arts. Herbert Lewis Fink, painter, printmaker, sculptor, and educator, born was in Providence, Rhode Island on September 8, 1921. He studied at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1941, he received is B.F.A. degree from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1949, his M.F.A. from Yale University in 1956, and he also studied for a year at the Art Students League and with John Frazier...
Etching
$2,268
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
Untitled (1B)
By Alicia McCarthy
Located in Berkeley, CA
Rives BFK. Image size 36" x 40" Paper size 40.5" x 44" Edition of 30
Etching
$650
H 14 in W 18.75 in D 0.75 in
"The Fortune Teller" from Japanese Life and Customs - Shin-Hanga Woodblock Print
Located in Soquel, CA
"The Fortune Teller" from Japanese Life and Customs - Shin-Hanga Woodblock Print Beautiful second edition woodblock print by prominent Japanese artist Sanzo Wada (b. 1883 d. 1967.) ...
Ink, Washi Paper, Woodblock
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