Montserrat Gudiol
Montserrat Gudiol was a Catalonian painter.
Gudiol was born in Barcelona as the daughter of the art historian and architect Josep Gudiol i Ricart who ran a medieval painting restoration studio. She trained in his studio and began painting on her own in 1950. In 1980 she made a monumental Saint Benedict for the Abbey of Montserrat and in 1981 she was the first woman to enter the .
Gudiol died in Barcelona.Works
She is known for her portrayals of figures portrayed in space with ambiguous backgrounds. Some of her work seems to recall Hieronymus Bosch with a wink at her father's studio, and others seem to reflect the works of famous painters of her day such as Picasso.
