Manuel Hernández Mompó

MANUEL HERNÁNDEZ MOMPÓ (Valencia, 1927 - Madrid, 1992).
Untitled, 1982.
Silkscreen on paper, copy 244/500.
Signed, dated and justified by hand.
Measurements: 82,50 x 63 cm, 89 x 64,50 cm (frame).
Hernández Mompó trained 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 obtained a scholarship from the Juan March Foundation in Madrid, as well as the Gran Premio Nacional de Pintura and a first medal at the Exposición Nacional de Bellas Artes. Among his most outstanding awards are the Unesco Prize received at the XXXIV Venice Biennial in 1968, and the National Prize for Fine Arts from the Ministry of Culture in 1984. He is represented at the IVAM in Valencia, the Museo Nacional Reina Sofía, the Museo de Arte Abstracto in Cuenca, the British Museum in London, the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, the Chase Manhattan Bank Collection in New York and the Winterthur Museum in Switzerland, among many others.