Paul Manes

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Paul Manes

Red Poppies, 2025

oil on canvas

24h x 30w in

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Paul Manes

Blue Flowers, 2025

oil on canvas

24h x 30w in

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Paul Manes

Yellow Flowers, 2025

oil on canvas

48h x 54w in

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Paul Manes

Blue in Green #2, 2025

oil on canvas

60h x 70w in

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Paul Manes

Waterloo, 2025

oil on canvas

50h x 60w in

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Paul Manes

In Flanders Fields, 2025

oil on canvas

60h x 66w in

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Paul Manes

Austerlitz, 2025

oil on canvas

50h x 60w in

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Paul Manes

Night in MV, 2024

oil on canvas

78h x 84w in

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Paul Manes

Chrysalis, 2024

oil on canvas

78h x 96w in

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Paul Manes

Deluge, 2025

oil on canvas

72h x 80w in

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Paul Manes

Berry St. (slight revisit), 2024

oil on canvas

84h x 78w in

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Paul Manes

Phryne, 2024

oil on canvas

78h x 96w in

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Paul Manes

Devil's Paradise, 2022

oil on canvas

78h x 96w in

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Paul Manes

Large Bowls, 2019

oil on canvas

84h x 78w in

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Paul Manes

Dervish, 2021

oil on canvas

66h x 60w in

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Paul Manes

Toad, 2021

oil on canvas

66h x 60w in

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Paul Manes

Prana, 2022

oil on canvas

78h x 66w in

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Paul Manes

Smoke, 2022

oil on canvas

40h x 36w in

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Paul Manes

B.E.R., 2021

oil on canvas

41h x 105w in

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Paul Manes

Rudolph, 2022

oil on canvas

36h x 96w in

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Paul Manes

Maiysha, 2019

oil on canvas

60h x 66w in

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Paul Manes

Olvidar, 2019

oil on canvas

78h x 104w in

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Paul Manes

Songs 18, 2020

Mixed Media on Canvas

38h x 42.50w in

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Paul Manes

Songs 5, 2020

Mixed Media on Canvas

37h x 43w in

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Paul Manes

Songs 1, 2020

Mixed Media on Canvas

36.50h x 46w in

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Paul Manes

Eimi, 2018

oil on canvas

60h x 66w in

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Paul Manes

Night in the Mountains, 2018

oil on canvas

60h x 66w in

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Paul Manes

Tempest, 2016

oil on canvas

54h x 48w in

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Paul Manes

Curfew, 2016

oil and collage on canvas

74h x 66w in

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Paul Manes

Freeway, 2016

oil on canvas

66h x 72w in

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Paul Manes

Brattle, 2017

oil on canvas

40h x 36w in

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Paul Manes

Tathata, 2015

oil on canvas

78h x 84w in

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Paul Manes

Harem, 2016

oil on canvas

78h x 104w in

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Paul Manes

Roadblock, 2016

oil on canvas

16h x 20w in

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Biography

Paul Manes - Artists - Cris Worley Fine Arts

Paul Manes b. 1948 — Paul Manes has never been one to conform to the artistic trends of the day. His inspirations come mostly from the past — Rembrandt, Velasquez, Goya, Cezanne, Pollock, and Johns. Thus, Manes’ work pulls from hundreds of years of inspiration, culminating in an artistic technique that stands independent and unique. His adept handling of oil paint allows for fluidity of style between abstraction and representation; the subject matter varies from foreshortened stacks of wood to fighter planes, to tumbling stacks of bowls and complex fields of hexagonal nets. In each work, the artist provides the viewer with something new, powerful, and unequivocally “great.” Says Manes, “I paint both abstractions and figurative works. I make no distinctions because what I am thinking of is space, light, and form.”

With shows beginning in 1983, Manes’ work has been on display for over four decades. His early abstract works appeared in Houston magazines and Collision: The Contemporary Art Scene in Houston, 1972-1985 where it stood as a backdrop for Barbara Rose, the celebrated art historian and critic. As Manes’ career grew, his work became a subject in and of itself, becoming a compelling presence that demanded attention in collections such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Guggenheim. It is not easy to define Paul Manes’ work, and perhaps, that is what is so enticing about it. He is not contained by any one style or subject, but rather, his oeuvre shows how he is a master in his own right. However, one of the clearest changes we can see in Manes’ work happened when he moved from New York to Colorado a decade ago. Bringing techniques from his past, Manes paints the lush nature around him, creating landscapes in a way that references the entirety of his career. At the same time, Manes continues to paint abstracted subjects, as well as subjects he has known for decades. Manes cannot be understood in any one definition of the “artist”, but rather, his work must be defined as a reflection of him and his experiences.

Paul Manes has had an extensive career since studying at the Graduate School of Fine Arts, Hunter College (New York). Domestically he has shown cross-country, in museums and galleries alike, including in Los Angeles, New York, Palm Beach, Atlanta, New Orleans, Beaumont, Austin, Dallas, and Houston. Internationally, Manes has exhibited in Milan, Monte Carlo, Rome, Paris, Bologna, and Munich, and most recently in Brussels, Belgium, in the epic, Painting After Postmodernism exhibition, curated by Barbara Rose. Manes’ work is frequently collected in both the public and private sectors and can be found in the collections of the Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Art Museum of Southeast Texas; Yoko Ono and Emeril Lagasse. His monumental work, The Entry of Christ into New York, was acquired for the lobby of the Brussels Hôtel de Ville (City Hall).

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