Painter, sculptor and architect, Manrique was formed between Lanzarote and Madrid, where he studied at the Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes de San Fernando. In 1942 he made his individual debut in Lanzarote, and during the fifties, with the rise of surrealism, he founded the Fernando Fe gallery, the first non-figurative gallery in Spain.

During these years he painted several murals in Lanzarote and exhibited his work in several countries. In 1964 he moved to New York where he exhibited, among others, at the Catherine Viviano Gallery. Two years later he settled definitively in Lanzarote where, together with the architect Fernando Higueras, he undertook various projects on the island. In 1992, a few months before his death in a t...