Ripollés (1932) - Musico

Engraving by Ripollés, painted and signed by hand, produced in his workshop in Mas de Flors on Arches paper, pencil-signed in the bottom right corner.

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 early years were not easy: he collected horse manure, he was a scrap dealer and a throw-painter, until he moved to Paris in 1954. He wanted to be a painter. And it was there that he achieved it.
Four years after his arrival, he managed to hang his paintings in the prestigious Drouant David gallery, the same one that had exhibited Picasso and Chagall.
Since his return to Spain, in the sixties, his workshop is nature.
Nowadays, at 92, it still is: he paints in the orchard of his manor in the small hamlet of Mas de Flors, in the province of Castellón.
During the last five decades, his canvases and engravings have been shown in the finest galleries and museums in Amsterdam, New York, Tokyo or Beijing.
His large-scale sculptures have been installed in the parks and main streets and squares of Madrid, Seville, Valencia, Lisbon, Venice, Verona, Hertogenbosch or Beijing."