Juan García Ripollés (1932) - Abrazo

Engraving by Ripollés, hand-painted and signed, made on Arches paper in my workshop at Más de Flors.

Juan García Ripollés—known as Ripollés—was born in
Alzira (Valencia, Spain) in 1932. The death of her mother.
During childbirth, she was taken 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, she still does so: she paints in the garden of
her mansion in the small hamlet of Mas de Flors, in the
Province of Castellón
Over the past five decades, his canvases and engravings.
They have been exhibited in the best galleries and museums of
Amsterdam, New York, Tokyo, or Beijing.
Their large-scale sculptures have been installed in the
parks and main streets and squares of Madrid
Seville, Valencia, Lisbon, Venice, Verona, Hertogenbosch
the Beijing