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. Perfil 111, "Chiara" Etching and Silkscreen 30/50
By Manolo Valdés
Located in Bellport, NY
Manolo Valdes born 1942 is a Spanish artist living in New York and Madrid. Manolo's inspiration largely originates from the unique styles and techniques belonging to the old masters,...
Other
Keith Haring, Silkscreen, 1990s
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Keith Haring, signed and numbered. Silkscreen representing characters, in red, orange, green and blue tones, in its blond oak frame. Numbered 53/150. American work realized in the...
Paper
Yaacov Agam Geometric Silkscreen Woman
By Yaacov Agam
Located in Toledo, OH
Geometric silkscreen serigraph "Woman" by Yaacov Agam, circa 1980s, edition L / LIV, very good condition, some toneing. Dimensions: image 10.25" x 11.75", frame 21" x 20".
Paper
Keith Haring, Silkscreen, 1990s
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Keith Haring, signed and numbered. Abstract silkscreen, suggesting a series of characters, in dark pink, black and green tones in its blond oak frame. Numbered 68/150. American wo...
Paper, Oak
Signed and Numbered Etching by Jean Lurçat
By Jean Lurçat
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Original Jean Lurçat etching. Signed by the artist and numbered 44/85 in pencil. Born July 1, 1892, Bruyères, Fr. Died Jan. 6, 1966, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Fr. French painter ...
Glass, Paper, Wood
Robert Mangold Silkscreen "Yellow Curled Figure"
By Robert Mangold
Located in Stamford, CT
Yellow curled figure a silkscreen by Robert Mangold. Produced by Pace Editions, New York, 2002. Signed and Numbered 10/10 in pencil. Full sheet. 29 3/8" X 36" Framed using acid free ...
Paper
Josef Albers Silkscreen
By Josef Albers
Located in Stamford, CT
Josef Albers from Formulation: Articulation, 1972. Silkscreen prints, Folio II / Folder 6 . Floated in 12 karat white gold gilt frame using all acid free archival materials. #176 of ...
Paper
Pop Art Silkscreen on Silver Board, Signed, 24/50, Modern Style, 1967
By Peter Gee
Located in New York, NY
Pop Art screen-print on silver metallic board featuring graphic magenta, blue, orange bullseye targets. Signed Peter Gee 1967. Professionally framed in a white wood frame with glare ...
Paint, Paper
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Rita Briansky, 'Dreamscape', 37/50, Framed Etching on Paper, Canada, C.1973
Located in Chatham, ON
Rita Briansky (Born 1925) - 'Dreamscape' - 37/50 - Exceptional Mid Century etching on 'BFK Rives - France' paper - likely considered her fines...
Paper
Dodik Jégou, Silkscreen, The Ponies, Signed and Numbered 3/250
Located in Antwerp, BE
Dodik Jégou. Silkprint, The Ponies,signed and numbered 3250. Dodik Jégou, born Mary-Charlotte Le Berre on May 14th, 1934 in Quimper (Finistère), is a pai...
Wool
Yaacov Agam Geometric Silkscreen Man
By Yaacov Agam
Located in Toledo, OH
Geometric silkscreen serigraph "Man" by Yaacov Agam, circa 1980s, from an edition XL / LIV, very good condition, signed lower right in pencil. Dimensions: image 10.25" x 11.75", shee...
Paper
Joan Miro etching aquatint series of 30 on Japanese Paper , 1969
By Joan Miró
Located in La xara, VC
The work in question is part of a series of 30 prints on Japanese paper number with out sign Provenance Paris around Broder Family publisher .last picture Explanation: Series of 3...
Paper
Signed and Numbered Etching by Jean Lurçat
By Jean Lurçat
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Original Jean Lurçat etching. Signed by the artist and numbered 44/85 in pencil. Born July 1, 1892, Bruyères, Fr. Died Jan. 6, 1966, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Fr. French painter an...
Glass, Wood, Paper
“Reina Mariana IV”, Manolo Valdés, 2001
By Manolo Valdés
Located in Ibiza, Spain
MANOLO VALDES (Valencia 1942) Etching and Collage on handmade paper by Acuari Signed in pencil Numbered 11/50 Dimensions: 168 x 97 cm. Edited by the artist Stamped Taller Mayor, Mad...
Wood, Paint, Paper
Hand-Worked, Manolo Valdés Etching
By Manolo Valdés
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Signed, numbered, 2001 etching and hand-worked collage, "Reina Maria V" by important Spanish artist, Manolo Valdés (b. 1942). Select museum collections: de Young Museum, San Francisc...
Paper
"Reina Mariana IV" Manolo Valdes, 2011
By Manolo Valdés
Located in Madrid, ES
"Reina Mariana IV", 2001. Manolo Valdés (1942). Etching and collage over handmade paper to Acuari. Signed and numbered 11/50.