Composition 9

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.

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain