Ripollés (1932) - Bodegón con peces

Ripolles' painting, oil on panel, year 1967, in excellent condition, directly from the artist
Signed by hand in the lower right corner and accompanied by a certificate of authenticity

Juan García Ripollés —known as Ripollés—, was born in Alzira (Valencia, Spain) in 1932. The death of his mother in childbirth led him to Castellón La Plana. His early years were not easy: he gathered horse manure, worked as a scrap dealer and as a rough-brush painter, until he moved to Paris in 1954. He wanted to be a painter. And that is where 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.
Today, at 92, it remains so: he paints in the orchard of his country house 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-format sculptures have been installed in parks and on the main streets and squares of Madrid, Seville, Valencia, Lisbon, Venice, Verona, Hertogenbosch, or Beijing.