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Menchu Gal

Menchu Gal (1918 - 2008) was active/lived in Spain, France.  Menchu Gal is known for Fauvist landscapes and portrait painting, post-war Spanish art.

One of the great Spanish painters of the 20th century, Menchu Gal mainly painted landscapes, although she also painted portraits, always with her personal language of extreme colour, almost expressionist. In 1959 she won the National Painting Prize, becoming the first woman to receive this prestigious award. She also received the Gold Medal of Guipúzcoa (2005), the Medal of Irún (2006) and the Manuel Lecuona Prize of Eusko Ikaskuntza (2006). 

Gal began painting in her native Irun, where she was a disciple of Gaspar Montes Iturrioz. She was awarded a prize in the Gipuzkoa New Artists Competition in 1932, and before she was fifteen years old she moved to Paris to further her artistic studies. There she received classes from the master of cubism, Amédée Ozenfant, and discovered Matisse and Fauvism. On returning to Spain he continued his training at the San Fernando School of Fine Arts in Madrid, where he was taught by Aurelio Arteta and Vázquez Díaz, among others. 

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