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Montse Valdes

31-1-21, 21st Century, Contemporary, Portrait Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Montse Valdés
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
.” Montse Valdés never gets tired of recreating and evoking this state of mind constantly and of reflecting
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel, Mixed Media

4-5-17, 21st Century, Contemporary, Portrait Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Montse Valdés
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
.” Montse Valdés never gets tired of recreating and evoking this state of mind constantly and of reflecting
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Canvas, Oil

4-1-16, 21st Century, Contemporary, Portrait Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Montse Valdés
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
.” Montse Valdés never gets tired of recreating and evoking this state of mind constantly and of reflecting
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Canvas, Oil

6-11-13 21st Century, Contemporary, Portrait Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Montse Valdés
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
.” Montse Valdés never gets tired of recreating and evoking this state of mind constantly and of reflecting
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil

1-4-9, 21st Century, Contemporary, Portrait Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Montse Valdés
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
.” Montse Valdés never gets tired of recreating and evoking this state of mind constantly and of reflecting
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil

2-5-17 21st Century, Contemporary, Portrait Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Montse Valdés
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
.” Montse Valdés never gets tired of recreating and evoking this state of mind constantly and of reflecting
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil

10-1-21 (Diptych) - 21st Century, Contemporary, Portrait Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Montse Valdés
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
.” Montse Valdés never gets tired of recreating and evoking this state of mind constantly and of reflecting
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

2-9-22 (Diptych) - 21st Century, Contemporary, Portrait Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Montse Valdés
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
.” Montse Valdés never gets tired of recreating and evoking this state of mind constantly and of reflecting
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

1-4-22 (Diptych) - 21st Century, Contemporary, Portrait Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Montse Valdés
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
.” Montse Valdés never gets tired of recreating and evoking this state of mind constantly and of reflecting
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

4-9-22 (Diptych) - 21st Century, Contemporary, Portrait Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Montse Valdés
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
.” Montse Valdés never gets tired of recreating and evoking this state of mind constantly and of reflecting
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

3-9-22 (Duptych) - 21st Century, Contemporary, Portrait Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Montse Valdés
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
.” Montse Valdés never gets tired of recreating and evoking this state of mind constantly and of reflecting
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

1-9-22 (Diptych) - 21st Century, Contemporary, Portrait Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Montse Valdés
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
.” Montse Valdés never gets tired of recreating and evoking this state of mind constantly and of reflecting
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

4-5-17 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Portrait Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Montse Valdés
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
.” Montse Valdés never gets tired of recreating and evoking this state of mind constantly and of reflecting
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

27-3-12h Diptych - 21st Century, Contemporary, Portrait Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Montse Valdés
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
.” Montse Valdés never gets tired of recreating and evoking this state of mind constantly and of reflecting
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

3-1-17 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Portrait Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Montse Valdés
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
.” Montse Valdés never gets tired of recreating and evoking this state of mind constantly and of reflecting
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

1-7-20 (Diptych) - 21st Century, Contemporary, Portrait Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Montse Valdés
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
.” Montse Valdés never gets tired of recreating and evoking this state of mind constantly and of reflecting
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

2-8-20 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Portrait Painting, Oil on Canvas, Spiritual
By Montse Valdés
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
.” Montse Valdés never gets tired of recreating and evoking this state of mind constantly and of reflecting
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

7-1-21 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Portrait Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Montse Valdés
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
.” Montse Valdés never gets tired of recreating and evoking this state of mind constantly and of reflecting
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

11-4-11 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Portrait Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Montse Valdés
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
.” Montse Valdés never gets tired of recreating and evoking this state of mind constantly and of reflecting
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

1-8-17 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Portrait Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Montse Valdés
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
.” Montse Valdés never gets tired of recreating and evoking this state of mind constantly and of reflecting
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

10-11-9 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Nude Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Montse Valdés
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
.” Montse Valdés never gets tired of recreating and evoking this state of mind constantly and of reflecting
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

6-8-10 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Nude Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Montse Valdés
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
.” Montse Valdés never gets tired of recreating and evoking this state of mind constantly and of reflecting
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

1-5-23 (diptych), 21st Century, Contemporary, Portrait Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Montse Valdés
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
.” Montse Valdés never gets tired of recreating and evoking this state of mind constantly and of reflecting
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil

Recent Sales

1-2-24 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Portrait Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Montse Valdés
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
.” Montse Valdés never gets tired of recreating and evoking this state of mind constantly and of reflecting
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Mixed Media, Canvas

4-3-20 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Portrait Painting, Oil on Canvas, Spiritual
By Montse Valdés
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
.” Montse Valdés never gets tired of recreating and evoking this state of mind constantly and of reflecting
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

27-9-10 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Nude Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Montse Valdés
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
.” Montse Valdés never gets tired of recreating and evoking this state of mind constantly and of reflecting
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

1-12-12 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Portrait Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Montse Valdés
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
.” Montse Valdés never gets tired of recreating and evoking this state of mind constantly and of reflecting
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

1-1-17 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Portrait Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Montse Valdés
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
.” Montse Valdés never gets tired of recreating and evoking this state of mind constantly and of reflecting
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

3-5-17-2 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Portrait Painting, Oil, Canvas, Spiritual
By Montse Valdés
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
.” Montse Valdés never gets tired of recreating and evoking this state of mind constantly and of reflecting
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

3-7-20 (Diptych) - 21st Century, Contemporary, Portrait Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Montse Valdés
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
.” Montse Valdés never gets tired of recreating and evoking this state of mind constantly and of reflecting
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

2-5-19 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Portrait Painting, Oil on Canvas, Spiritual
By Montse Valdés
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
.” Montse Valdés never gets tired of recreating and evoking this state of mind constantly and of reflecting
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

1-10-21 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Portrait Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Montse Valdés
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
.” Montse Valdés never gets tired of recreating and evoking this state of mind constantly and of reflecting
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

2-8-21 (Triptych) - 21st Century, Contemporary, Portrait Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Montse Valdés
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
.” Montse Valdés never gets tired of recreating and evoking this state of mind constantly and of reflecting
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

1-1-22 (Diptych) - 21st Century, Contemporary, Portrait Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Montse Valdés
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
.” Montse Valdés never gets tired of recreating and evoking this state of mind constantly and of reflecting
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

2-4-21 (Diptych) - 21st Century, Contemporary, Portrait Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Montse Valdés
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
.” Montse Valdés never gets tired of recreating and evoking this state of mind constantly and of reflecting
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

1-8-21 (Diptych) - 21st Century, Contemporary, Portrait Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Montse Valdés
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
.” Montse Valdés never gets tired of recreating and evoking this state of mind constantly and of reflecting
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

1-4-21 (Diptych) - 21st Century, Contemporary, Portrait Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Montse Valdés
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
.” Montse Valdés never gets tired of recreating and evoking this state of mind constantly and of reflecting
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

9-5-21 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Portrait Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Montse Valdés
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
.” Montse Valdés never gets tired of recreating and evoking this state of mind constantly and of reflecting
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

1-5-19 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Portrait Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Montse Valdés
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
.” Montse Valdés never gets tired of recreating and evoking this state of mind constantly and of reflecting
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

30-3-19 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Portrait Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Montse Valdés
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
.” Montse Valdés never gets tired of recreating and evoking this state of mind constantly and of reflecting
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

3-6-17 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Portrait Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Montse Valdés
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
.” Montse Valdés never gets tired of recreating and evoking this state of mind constantly and of reflecting
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

6-11-11 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Nude Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Montse Valdés
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
.” Montse Valdés never gets tired of recreating and evoking this state of mind constantly and of reflecting
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

6-9-21 (Diptych) - 21st Century, Contemporary, Portrait Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Montse Valdés
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
.” Montse Valdés never gets tired of recreating and evoking this state of mind constantly and of reflecting
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

4-8-17 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Portrait Painting, Oil on Canvas, Spiritual
By Montse Valdés
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
.” Montse Valdés never gets tired of recreating and evoking this state of mind constantly and of reflecting
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

23-6-8 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Portrait Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Montse Valdés
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
Oil on canvas
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

7-4-11 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Nude Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Montse Valdés
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
Oil on canvas
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

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Montse Valdes For Sale on 1stDibs

There is a broad range of montse valdes for sale on 1stDibs. A selection of these works in the Contemporary styles can be found today in our inventory. If you’re looking to add a montse valdes that pops against an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include that feature elements of gray, black, brown, blue and more. Each of these unique pieces was handmade with extraordinary care, with artists most often working in oil paint, paint and canvas. If space is limited, there are small montse valdes measuring 9.45 across, while our inventory also includes pieces up to 114.97 inches across to better suit those in the market for large iterations.

How Much are Montse Valdes?

Montse valdes can differ in price owing to various characteristics — the average selling price for items in our inventory is $6,211, while the lowest priced sells for $1,921 and the highest can go for as much as $42,002.

Montse Valdés for sale on 1stDibs

Born in 1959 in Barcelona, Spain, Montse Valdés began drawing at an early age and spent four years in Paris and one year in Asia during her youth. Her travels back then have had an effect on her art, and following a brief sojourn in the world of theater, she decided to pursue painting at age 21 and began to create the wealth of generously sized, ethereal and peaceful portraits, nude paintings and figurative works for which she is known.

From 1981 to 1984, Valdés studied drawing, painting and pastel techniques at the Isidre Vilaseca Studio in Girona and the Artur Aldomà Puig Studio in Barcelona. For a few years beginning in 1985, she attended the prestigious École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where she discovered that “the artist makes him- or herself.”

Valdés has since perfected her signature technique of applying thickly textured pastel oils with a palette knife, layering colors with sweeping strokes and dots to create her images. Viewers of her extraordinary large-format works can detect the contours of these strokes and rich swathes of color up close — one must take a few steps back to fully absorb the painstakingly detailed faces of her subjects.

Over the course of her painting career, Valdés has participated in more than 100 art fairs and exhibitions throughout the United States, Asia and Europe. She is represented by Villa del Arte Galleries, which has galleries in Barcelona, Amsterdam and Palm Beach.

Find original Montse Valdés paintings on 1stDibs.

A Close Look at Contemporary Art

Used to refer to a time rather than an aesthetic, Contemporary art generally describes pieces created after 1970 or being made by living artists anywhere in the world. This immediacy means it encompasses art responding to the present moment through diverse subjects, media and themes. Contemporary painting, sculpture, photography, performance, digital art, video and more frequently includes work that is attempting to reshape current ideas about what art can be, from Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s use of candy to memorialize a lover he lost to AIDS-related complications to Jenny Holzer’s ongoing “Truisms,” a Conceptual series that sees provocative messages printed on billboards, T-shirts, benches and other public places that exist outside of formal exhibitions and the conventional “white cube” of galleries.

Contemporary art has been pushing the boundaries of creative expression for years. Its disruption of the traditional concepts of art are often aiming to engage viewers in complex questions about identity, society and culture. In the latter part of the 20th century, contemporary movements included Land art, in which artists like Robert Smithson and Michael Heizer create large-scale, site-specific sculptures, installations and other works in soil and bodies of water; Sound art, with artists such as Christian Marclay and Susan Philipsz centering art on sonic experiences; and New Media art, in which mass media and digital culture inform the work of artists such as Nam June Paik and Rafaël Rozendaal.

The first decades of the 21st century have seen the growth of Contemporary African art, the revival of figurative painting, the emergence of street art and the rise of NFTs, unique digital artworks that are powered by blockchain technology.

Major Contemporary artists practicing now include Ai Weiwei, Cecily Brown, David Hockney, Yayoi Kusama, Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami and Kara Walker.

Find a collection of Contemporary prints, photography, paintings, sculptures and other art on 1stDibs.

Finding the Right portrait-paintings for You

An elegant and sophisticated decorative touch in any living space, portrait paintings have remained popular throughout the years and are widely loved pieces of art for display in many homes today.

Portrait paintings are at least as old as ancient Egypt, where realistic, lifelike depictions of the recently deceased — commonly known as “mummy portraits” — were painted on wooden panels and affixed to mummies as part of the burial tradition.

For centuries, painters have used portraiture as a means of expressing a subject’s nobility, societal status and authority. Portraits were given as gifts in Renaissance Europe, and a portrait artist might have been commissioned to help mark a significant occasion such as a wedding or a promotion to high office. Prior to the advent of photography, which eventually replaced painted portraits as a quicker and more efficient way of capturing a person’s essence, the subject of a portrait had to sit for hours until the painter had finished. And during the 18th century in particular, if an artist commissioned for a portrait struggled with how to adequately memorialize and capture a subject’s likeness, sometimes a portrait painting wasn’t completed for up to a year.

Whether it’s part of the gallery-style approach to your living-room or dining-room walls or merely inspiration as you devise an eye-grabbing color scheme in your home, a portrait painting is a timeless decorative object for any interior. A landscape painting or sculpture might give you the kind of insight into a specific region of the world or a different culture that you can ascertain only through art. Similarly, when you take the time to learn about the subject of a portrait painting that you bring into your home — the sitter’s history, the relationship between the sitter and the artist should one exist, the story of how the portrait came to be — that work can become intensely personal in addition to its place as an object for an art-hungry corner of your apartment or house.

On 1stDibs, visit a vast collection of famous portrait paintings or works by emerging artists. Search by medium to find the right portrait paintings for your home in oil paint, synthetic resin paint and more. Find portrait paintings in a variety of styles, too, including contemporary, Impressionist and Pop art, or search by artist to find unique works created by painters such as Mark Beard, Steve Kaufman and Montse Valdés.