In 1983, the Ministry of Culture of Spain organized an extensive retrospective exhibition "Miguel Condé: 20 años de obra grabada" at the Sala Picasso of Biblioteca Nacional de España in Madrid. In a review of Condé's graphic work on display there, art critic and prolific author Fernando Huici opined that it was "paper—already forgotten in the absurd hierarchy of genres—in both drawing and engraving, where Condé finds most freedom, where he expresses with greater ease his particular vocabulary of images... " Another retrospective of the artist, "Miguel Condé: Pinturas, Gouaches, Dibujos", opened at the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum later the same year.