Miguel Condé, Oil on Canvas, Spain, 1970

A large early postmodern figurative work by painter Miguel Condé, signed and dated 1970, Sitges.

Biography: Miguel Condé, Mexican-American figurative painter, draftsman, and etcher. Born 1939 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Lives and works between Madrid and Sitges, Spain.

Self-taught, with the exception of anatomy studies with Stephen Rogers Peck in New York, and etching techniques in Stanley William Hayter’s Atelier 17 in Paris. Recipient of a Guggenheim Latin American Fellowship and a grant from the French Government, Condé has been awarded various international prizes and is an appointed member of the Société des Peintres-Graveurs Français. His work is represented in numerous museums and collections including The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Cleveland Museum of Art, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, University of Essex Collection of Latin American Art, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Albertina Vienna, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, The Brooklyn Museum, Art Institute of Chicago, University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, Vatican Library, Vatican City, and The Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.