In a market street, tradesmen sit on stools around small tables under the awnings; in the middle, a man in a white shirt with his back to us. Çoban (2024) describes it as an open-air scene of a market coffeehouse, with less empty space than any other of the painter's coffeehouse pictures. Painted in 2017, the last year of the painter's life.
Provenance
The artist's studio; private collection.
Literature
Çoban, İbrahim (2024). Mehmet Başbuğ’un Köy, Sokak, Çarşı, Pazar, Kahvehane Temalı Eserlerinde Tasarım ve Kompozisyon Anlayışı. idil Sanat ve Dil Dergisi, 13(115), 415–429 (p. 425, fig. 9). https://doi.org/10.7816/idil-13-115-09
Cite
Mehmet Başbuğ, Coffeehouse (Weary of the City), 2017. Oil on canvas, 60 × 80 cm. Mehmet Başbuğ Archive MB-0025. https://mehmetbasbug.tr/en/works/mb-0025/
