Mušič painted the Garden of a Tavern in the technique of gouache on paper and it can be dated with the year 1943. It can be grouped together with the Tavern Garden II, known from a photograph in the painter’s documentation, in which he himself included the year 1943 in the signature. The motif can be recognized as the garden of the same tavern.
Mušič first painted a series of motifs of terraces, or tavern gardens, in Cavtat in 1940. He was attracted by the relaxed character of Mediterranean taverns. He painted shady gardens with trees, tavern tables and chairs set in front of colourful Mediterranean facades with shutters in the background. In the early series, made in Dalmatia, only empty tables are mainly presented, with no guests, but in the present picture also a few persons are included:
a seated pair and a standing male figure with a black hat who is just entering the garden from the corner.
In the year when he painted the picture, Mušič was living in Trieste, so that one of the nearby tavern gardens is most likely depicted, or a garden of one of taverns in Venice which the painter first visited in October 1943. A year later he also painted in Venice the garden of the Da Montin tavern, today’s Antica Locanda Montin.