Víctor Manuel García Valdez[1] (Havana, October 31, 1897 - Havana, February 2, 1969) was a Cuban painter. Although he was a disciple of Romañach, from the first moment his painting moved away from the master's academicism, due to the avant-garde influences he received during his stay in France (between 1924 and 1927), in the so-called School of Paris.

His main works, initiators of modern Cuban art, are The Tropical Gypsy (1929), Landscape (1918), Gray Landscape (1927) and Interior Life (1932).[2]

He exhibited regularly at the Association of Painters and Sculptors and at the Lyceum Society of Havana, where he triumphed for his talent and originality. He won awards in the halls of the Ministry of Education in the years 1935 and 1938. At first he signed his works as Víctor García