Ripollés - Chica con abanico

Engraving by Ripollés, hand-painted and signed; each piece is always painted differently. It is created on Arches paper at the Más de Flors workshop.

Juan García Ripollés—known as Ripollés—was born in Alzira (Valencia, Spain) in 1932. His mother's death during childbirth led him to Castellón La Plana.
His/her/their early years were not easy: he/she/they collected
Horse manure, he was a scrap dealer and a rough painter, until he moved to Paris in 1954. He wanted to be a painter. And that’s where he succeeded.
Four years after his arrival, he managed to hang his
Paintings in the prestigious Drouand David gallery, the same.
that had been exhibited to Picasso and Chagall.
Since his return to Spain in the 1960s, his workshop
It is nature.
Nowadays, at 92 years old, they are still like this: painting in the orchard of their large house in the small hamlet of Mas de Flors, in the province of Castellón.
Over the past five decades, his canvases and engravings have been exhibited in the finest galleries and museums in Amsterdam, New York, Tokyo, and Beijing.
Their large-scale sculptures have been installed in the parks and main streets and squares of Madrid, Seville, Valencia, Lisbon, Venice, Verona, and Hertogenbosch.