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The Chronicle Group (Equipo Crónica) was a Spanish group created in Valencia in 1964. It was initially made up of Rafael Solbes (Valencia, 1940–1981), Manuel Valdés (Valencia, 1942), and Juan Antonio Toledo (Valencia, 1940–1995). In 1965, shortly after its first exhibition, Toledo separated from the collective. In 1981, the group disbanded due to the untimely death of Solbes. This artistic collective became one of the most coherent approaches to the figurative movement which, at the start of the 1960s, aimed to depart from informalist Spanish painting. As part of a style clearly influence by American pop art, they used visual techniques taken from communication media such as flat inks, serial reproduction, etc., as well as an ironic language, all with the aim of criticizing the social and political situation in Spain and creating a singular, demystifying rereading of the history of art which proposes "the affirmation of an objectifying as well as satirical method to put forward ethical content." This work, from the Román Escolano collection, forms part of a portfolio of five silkscreen prints accompanied by texts by Joan Fuester which were edited by the Chronicle Group in Valencia in the Ibero-Swiss workshops.