Manuel Hernández Mompó

MANUEL HERNÁNDEZ MOMPÓ (Valencia, 1927 – Madrid, 1992).
“Street Celebration,” 1974.
Silkscreen on paper. Print no. 2/125.
Signed, titled, and dated in pencil.
Measurements: 70 x 50 cm.
Hernández Mompó studied in Valencia, Granada, Paris, and Rome, and in 1954 he was awarded the Italian Navigation Prize at the Viareggio International Exhibition. In 1957 he returned to Spain, and the following year he received a fellowship from the Juan March Foundation in Madrid, as well as the National Grand Prize for Painting and a first-place medal at the National Fine Arts Exhibition. Among his most notable awards are the UNESCO Prize received at the 34th Venice Biennale in 1968 and the National Fine Arts Prize from the Ministry of Culture in 1984. His work is represented at the IVAM in Valencia, the Reina Sofía National Museum, the Museum of Abstract Art in Cuenca, the British Museum in London, the Georges Pompidou Center in Paris, the Chase Manhattan Bank collection in New York, and the Winterthur Museum in Switzerland, among many others.