Pedro de Valencia

1902-1971

Pedro de Valencia

Valencian painter, draftsman and writer whose real name was Pedro Sánchez García, being known by his pseudonym Pedro de Valencia. He was born in Valencia in 1902

The artist held various exhibitions at the Magrig Museum of Modern Art, the Baltimor Museum and the San Francisco Museum in California, participating as a guest artist at the XX Venice Biennale. In 1936, with the work entitled Spring, he won the third prize at the International Exhibition of the Camegis Institute in Pittsburg, United States. He held various exhibitions in cities such as Bareelena Magrig, Paris, Berlin (1933), Oslo (1933) Venice Copenhagen (1932) In 1936, with the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, he moved away from artistic circles that were politicized at that time , sending two watercolors of war scenes to the Spanish Pavilion at the 1937 Paris International Exposition. After the war, in 1939, he continued with his pictorial activity, participating in the Brief Academis and the Salones de los Eleven, invited by the art critic Eugenio D’Qrs. Pedro Sánchez died in January 1971 in the city of Valencia.