Manuel Valdés Auction Prices and Value Guide

Manuel Valdés auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 901 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

Manuel Valdés auction prices: quick answer

Manuel Valdés auction prices depend on medium, size, date, condition, provenance, edition details, attribution confidence, and recent comparable auction sales.

Artist
Manuel Valdés
Source records
901
Market update
2026-02-16

Manuel Valdés market snapshot

Manuel Valdés shows very deep auction liquidity with 583 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $44,100. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 58 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2026-02-10.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (9.0% · 36 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (28.3% · 113 sales)
  • $10,000+ (62.7% · 250 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$4,400
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
58
Median shift vs prior year
0.0%
Latest recorded sale
2026-02-10

Artist context

About Manuel Valdés

Born

1942

Nationality

Spanish

Also known as

Manolo Valdés, Manuel Valdés Blasco

Manuel Valdés, widely known as Manolo Valdés, is a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, and mixed-media artist born in Valencia in 1942. His practice crosses several object types, giving his public identity a broader scope than that of an artist associated with a single medium. Available biographical sources describe an approach in which political and social engagement can be joined by humor and irony. Collectors may consequently encounter his name attached to paintings, sculptures, graphic works, and mixed-media objects. Authority records from Wikidata, Getty ULAN, VIAF, the Library of Congress, and other institutions help distinguish this artist across catalogues and databases, although several profiles could not be substantively inspected in the collected source pack. The alternate form Manolo Valdés is especially important for entity matching, searches, catalogue references, and comparisons between auction records that may use different versions of his name.

PaintingSculptureMixed mediaPrintmaking and engraving

Common works and media

Works encountered in auction and appraisal contexts may include paintings, sculpture, mixed-media works, prints, and other graphic works. The collected evidence does not identify reliable recurring subjects, named series, edition conventions, casting practices, or characteristic materials, so those details should be established from the object itself and its documentation rather than inferred from the artist's name.

Market and appraisal context

Valdés worked across painting, sculpture, mixed media, and printmaking, so market analysis should begin by separating records according to work type and medium. Paintings should be compared with relevant paintings, sculpture with corresponding sculpture, and graphic works with comparable graphic works. Appraisily can organize public auction evidence by sale date, realized price, auction-house context, and related lots when those records are available. This source pack, however, does not contain substantive individual lot records or a major-auction-house market discussion. It therefore cannot support a price forecast or claims about trends, scarcity, premiums, or record results. An appraisal also requires object-specific documentation beyond the artist-level identity evidence summarized here.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

  • Paintings
  • Sculpture
  • Prints and graphic works
  • Mixed-media works

Value drivers

  1. Work type and medium should be matched when selecting comparable records because Valdés worked across painting, sculpture, mixed media, and printmaking.
  2. Relevant public auction records should be compared by sale date, realized price, and closely corresponding work type when those records are available.

Appraisal caveats

  • The collected source pack contains no substantive major-auction-house catalogue entry or individual lot record, so it does not support claims about price trends, record prices, demand, or scarcity.
  • The supplied evidence does not establish how date, scale, condition, provenance, edition size, casting details, or subject matter affect this artist's auction results.
  • Object-specific authorship, medium, dimensions, edition or casting information, condition, and provenance require examination and documentary support.

Evidence

Sources for artist context

This source-grounded artist context is based on collected public records: medium confidence, adequate source quality.

Source-grounded artist Markdown

Data basis

This page is built from Appraisily's public auction market index. Private transactions, incomplete sale feeds, and attribution changes may not be fully represented.

LLM-readable Markdown summary for Manuel Valdés

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Artist value FAQ

How much is Manuel Valdés worth?

Comparable public auction sales are the best starting point, but final value depends on the specific artwork, condition, size, medium, provenance, and attribution confidence.

Can Appraisily value my Manuel Valdés artwork?

Yes. Appraisily can review photos, dimensions, signatures, condition, provenance, and comparable market data to prepare a current valuation.