Manolo Pérez Valiente Beethoven Solid Wood Sculpture

Cubist wood sculpture representing Beethoven, by Manolo Pérez Aliente 1908-1991. Dimensions: height 21.5 cm Width without the base: 18.5 cm Depth-------------: 11cm Cubist wood sculpture representing Beethoven, by Manolo Pérez Aliente 1908-1991. Manolo Valiente was a Spanish artist engaged in the fight against Francoism. His memory and his work are linked to the second Spanish republic During the Retirada, at the age of 30, he crossed the Pyrenees on February 10, 1939, like the thousands of refugees and exiles from the Spanish war From 1939 to the end of 1942, he will be interned in the camp of Barcarès, the camp of argelès sur mer and that of Bram. He participated in 1947 in the first exhibition of exiled artists, Spanish art in exile, in Toulouse, organized by the international anti-fascist solidarity, with in particular Pablo Picasso, Juan Gris, Francisco Bores, Honorio Condoy, Óscar Domíguez and Antoni Keyed.