# Manuel Valdés artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/manuel-valdes/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T21:57:01.714Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1942-03-08
- Nationality: Spanish
- Common media: Painting, Sculpture, Mixed media, Printmaking and engraving

## About Manuel Valdés

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.

## 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.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist-identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are publicly available. Source gaps and unresolved object-specific questions are kept separate from verified identity information.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q546947
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500069748
- The Museum of Modern Art: https://www.moma.org/artists/7833
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manolo_Vald%C3%A9s
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manolo_Vald%C3%A9s
- Wikipedia: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manolo_Vald%C3%A9s
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/manuel-valdes/