WattsOS
H
Homunculus
1966 · Opaque paint with scraping and wash over graphite on paper
17 1/4 × 13 3/4 in. (43.8 × 34.9 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
WATTS INDEXThe canonical database of visual culture
Manolo Millares
Spanish, 1926–1972
WA-00023933
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
Painting
Representation
None documented
3
Institutional Exhibitions
5
Works in Collection
8
Assets Indexed
4
Authority-backed Facts
0
Publications Referenced
80%
Profile Completeness
Cultural Positioning
Influence Graph
No influence edges encoded yet.
Authority Records (2)
Selected Institutional Exhibitions
View all exhibitions →No image
The Art of Assemblage
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1961
No image
New Spanish Painting and Sculpture
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1960
No image
Recent Acquisitions: Painting and Sculpture
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1959
Field Verification (4 fields)
4 cross-verified · 0 single-source
- BiographyWikidata· 92%✓
- Birth yearWikidata· 92%✓
- LocationWikidata· 92%✓
- NationalityWikidata· 92%✓
Source Registry (2)
- Christies-ArtsyTier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
- MoMA bulk 2026-05-04Tier 1 · Institutional92%
About
Why this artist matters now
Manolo Millares was a Spanish painter and assemblage artist whose abstract work emerged from the postwar avant-garde. Working primarily with oil, collage, and found materials, he developed a gestural abstraction that merged spontaneous mark-making with textural layering. His practice engaged with the expressive possibilities of material decomposition and surface rupture, creating works of visual and tactile complexity. Active in the Spanish art scene during the 1950s and 1960s, Millares contributed to the development of informal abstraction in postwar Europe.
Source: Christies Artsy · Trust score: 100% · Updated 1mo ago
Graph relationships
Taste overlap and adjacency
Movement
—
Medium
Painting
Related Artists
6 in graph
Institutional
Museum Collections
Canonical record
Artworks (5)
Artwork sources (4)
5 published of 6 catalogued · 5 with image
- Tate2 published2 img
- MoMA1 publishedof 2 catalogued2 img
- Art Institute Chicago1 published1 img
- The Met1 published
Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 2)
2 entries · 1 sources
- 1961 · Tate · 1 provUrl Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
- 1964 · Tate · 1 provUrl Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Record
Images
Relationships
5Institutional
Representation & Collections
In collection
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
In collection
Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
In collection
Art Institute of Chicago
In collection
Tate
Market
Auction sale history
Houses that have sold works by this artist at auction
Market
Auction History
Range: $750 – $1,091,250
| Work | Auction House | Date | Estimate | Hammer Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Christie's | Jun 2024 | €250,000 – €350,000 | Unsold | |
| Christie's | Mar 2023 | £200,000 – £300,000 | £252,000 | |
| Christie's | Jul 2022 | $15,000 – $20,000 | $94,500 | |
| Christie's | Jun 2022 | €400,000 – €600,000 | €529,200 | |
| Christie's | Apr 2022 | €12,000 – €18,000 | €18,900 | |
| Christie's | Feb 2022 | £12,000 – £18,000 | £27,720 | |
| Christie's | Oct 2021 | €100,000 – €150,000 | €200,000 | |
| Christie's | Jul 2020 | £900,000 – £1,200,000 | £1,091,250 | |
| Christie's | Feb 2020 | £180,000 – £250,000 | £551,250 | |
| Christie's | Mar 2019 | £18,000 – £25,000 | £23,750 |
Showing 10 of 20 results
Record