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Museum of Avila. Montserrat del Valle, born in Córdoba in 1942 and an adopted resident of Ávila - based in Avila for more than forty years - began her training at the School of Arts and Crafts in her hometown and, later, at the School of Fine Arts in Seville and in Madrid, graduating from the latter in 1971.

After receiving an honorable mention at the Adaja Biennial Prize in 1978, one of her first solo exhibitions took place at the Caja de Ahorros de Avila Art Gallery in 1980. Since then, Montserrat's work has been exhibited in numerous galleries and exhibition spaces throughout Spain, as well as in museums in Córdoba, Albacete, and the Pérez-Comendador Museum in Hervás (Cáceres), among others. Having participated in several group exhibitions, in 2007 her work was the subject of a solo exhibition at the Palacio de los Serrano (then the Caja de Avila building, now the Fundación Avila), as well as at the Mateo Inurria Gallery in the Museum of Córdoba.

The central themes of his painting have been landscape and still life, subjects he has approached with an informal style bordering on abstraction—without fully embracing it—generating aesthetically suggestive compositions, devoid of any noise or stridency, through an expressive encounter between color and the subtlety of tones. Light is an ever-present element in his creations. "Montserrat del Valle is a wise woman, her painting tells us this with firm clarity; a sensitive and sensitive wise woman who does not use intelligence to dry up the imagination, but to fertilize it with a love that is as generous as it is grateful. And we, the contemplators, benefit from this wisdom, feeling our pulse change as our gaze advances step by step through the forms, colors, structures, atmospheres and final results of her oil paintings" (Carmen Pallarés, catalogue of the exhibition Monserrat del Valle. Paintings, Caja de Avila and University of Córdoba, Avila, 2007).

The works presented on this occasion to mark International Women's Day, to highlight the female presence in the museum's collections, are four oil paintings on panel, highly representative of her style and covering the central period of her production (1974-1996).

They will be on display at the Deans' House from March 8th to April 5th, 2026.

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  • Postal address Museo de Ávila - Plaza de Nalvillos, 3.. municipality of Ávila . NaN. Ávila