Market by the Town Gate - Oil by Manuel Mensa Salas (1875-1938)

Genre oil painting by Manuel Mensa Salas: a market set up beside a gate in the town wall, with laden pack animals harnessed in the shade of the arch, muleteers with blankets over their shoulders, the women at the stall and a white awning at the left, all worked in a warm range of ochers and earth colors. Signed "Mensa" at the lower left.

Manuel Mensa Salas (1875-1938) was a Spanish painter known for his genre scenes and landscapes of the late 19th and early 20th centuries; his work appears regularly at international auction.

Medium: Oil on canvas
Artist: Manuel Mensa Salas
Dimensions: 27.6 x 27.6 in (70 x 70 cm)
Frame: Gilt frame with plain moulding
Condition: Sound overall; small paint losses in the lower area and slight craquelure at the upper left corner