Works by Menchu Gal

Menchu Gal (Irún, Spain 7 January 19191 - San Sebastián, Spain 12 March 2008) was a Spanish painter of the 20th century. Landscape and, to a lesser extent, portraiture are the genres that brought her fame and in which she developed her personal attraction for colour. In 1959 she received the National Painting Prize, awarded for the first time to a woman. Menchu Gal has been an outstanding architect of the renewal of post-war Spanish painting and, valued and recognised in the difficult world of painting since her youth, in 1959 she became the first woman to be awarded the National Painting Prize.