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Manolo Valdes Sculptures

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. 

On 1stDibs, discover a range of original Manolo Valdés prints, sculptures and mixed media.

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Artist: Manolo Valdes
Damas y Caballeros: Manolo Valdes
Damas y Caballeros: Manolo Valdes

Damas y Caballeros: Manolo Valdes

By Manolo Valdés

Located in Miami, FL

Manolo Valdes Damas y Caballeros: Manolo Valdes, 2024 This pieces consists in a resin sculpture and a book case containing: one book of etchings by the artist and a study book of his...

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Reina Mariana III (Las Meninas), 2022, Valdés, porcelain sculptures
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Manolo Valdes Reina Mariana III (Las Meninas), 2022 Limoges Porcelain 35 × 23.5 × 17.8 cm (13.8 × 9.3 × 7 in) Edition of 199 In mint condition Images of edition number are example r...

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2010s Manolo Valdes Sculptures

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Reina Mariana IV (Las Meninas), 2022, Valdés, porcelain sculptures

Reina Mariana IV (Las Meninas), 2022, Valdés, porcelain sculptures

By Manolo Valdés

Located in Zug, CH

Manolo Valdes Reina Mariana IV (Las Meninas), 2022 Limoges Porcelain 35 × 23.5 × 17.8 cm (13.8 × 9.3 × 7 in) Edition of 199 In mint condition Images of edition number are example re...

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2010s Manolo Valdes Sculptures

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Reina Mariana I (Las Meninas), 2022, Valdés, porcelain sculptures

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Located in Zug, CH

Manolo Valdes Reina Mariana I (Las Meninas), 2022 Limoges Porcelain 35 × 23.5 × 17.8 cm (13.8 × 9.3 × 7 in) Edition of 199 In mint condition Images of edition number are example ref...

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Manolo Valdes sculptures for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Manolo Valdes sculptures available for sale on 1stDibs. You can also browse by medium to find art by Manolo Valdes in ceramic, porcelain and more. Not every interior allows for large Manolo Valdes sculptures, so small editions measuring 10 inches across are available. Customers who are interested in this artist might also find the work of Jacinto Moros, Ferran Soriano, and Metis Atash. Manolo Valdes sculptures prices can differ depending upon medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $13,315 and tops out at $13,363, while the average work can sell for $13,315.