Antonio Alonso Martinez

Who is Antonio Alonso Martinez?

Antonio Alonso Martinez - is a Spanish painter and a philanthropist with an extensive charity work in Africa. His work is focused on defense of human rights.

Martinez was one of the mainly responsible of the Portuguese visual art's Boom in the 80s. Lives and works in Spain since 2011.

Being born in Portugal to Spanish parents he opted for the Spanish nationality in 1978.

He studied Fine Arts at the Center for Art and Visual Communication, Lisbon, Portugal.

In 1984 was co-author of the Manifest of the Multi-instrumentalist Painting published in the Newspaper of Letters, Arts and Ideas on 26 June 1984. This manifest was accompanied by an exhibition at the University of Fine Arts of Lisbon, creating controversy among the new artists and critics, because was a denounced against the empty NeoAcademy.

In January 2011 one of his work - Portrait of Kurt Cobain - reached the second higher value in the sale of Contemporary Art at the Austrian auction house Dorotheum. In September 2012 another portrait of Kurt Cobain by Martinez was sold at Christie's in London. In January 2013 in Warsaw one of his works - Diana - reached the highest value in the auction of Forbes Millionaires Club.