Menchu Gal

MENCHU GAL'S BIOGRAPHY (available in Spanish):
He was born� in Ir�n (Guip�zcoa) on January 1, 1919 and died in 2008.
In 1933, at the age of 15, on the advice of Gaspar Montes Iturrioz, his first teacher, he moved to Paris.

Later, in Madrid, Gal studied at the Escuela de Bellas Artes de San Fernando. He also trained in the studio-workshop of Marisa Roesset. In Madrid he joined the so-called Madrid School.

In 1955 he was granted a scholarship by the Institut franc�s and in Paris he studied with the masters Ozenfant and F. L�ger.

Menchu Gal held numerous solo and group exhibitions, where she achieved great success with both the public and critics. Although he maintained his own artistic style, his art incorporated impressionism and post-impressionism. The color in Gal's works varies according to the period, but we can say that green, blue and red predominate.
His painting includes landscapes, still lifes and portraits.

In 2006 she was the second woman to receive the Manuel Lekuona award.

Menchu Gal's work can be found at the Museo de Bellas Artes in Bilbao and the Museo Nacional de Arte Contempor�neo in Madrid.