An artist with the gift of an undeniable talent who, in spite of living within the moral repressions and strict conventional customs of a Guatemalan time outlined by a dictatorship (Manuel Estrada Cabrera), he was able to develop one of the most important works for art history in the 20th century.

His drawings and his hues with uncommon topics for that time define Valenti as a singular artist, in whom the searching spirit of conflicts that originate our existence was born.

Shortly after his arrival, they visited Pablo Picasso to hand him a letter from Jaime Sabartés, referring them to him for his guidance in choosing an academy or a master for their painting classes.

That is how both registered at the Vitty Academy, where they became disciples of the Dutch Kees van Dongen and the Spanish Hermenegildo Anglada Camarasa.

Two years before he had written: “… there are some among us that have the real faith – Art – for which you have to sacrifice yourself stepping over everything, to whom you have to render homage as a deity, give everything up for it; live only for your work… there, in the canvas, deposit an entire life, all our love; transmit to the painting everything that cannot be explained; live in it, deposit all our being, all the most saintly emotions that the artists’ heart experiences..” His end was tragic, as other artists’ ends were.

Some of his works belong to the collection of the Museo Nacional de Arte Moderno "Carlos Mérida" in Guatemala City.