Ripollés (1932) - Bodegón con peces

Ripolles painting, oil on panel, 1967, in excellent condition, coming directly from the artist

Hand-signed 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 during childbirth led him to Castellón La Plana.

His early years were not easy: he collected horse manure, worked as a junkman and a heavy-handed painter, until he left for Paris in 1954. He wanted to be a painter. And that’s where he achieved it.

Four years after his arrival, he managed to hang his paintings at the prestigious Drouand 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 is still thus: 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 prints have been shown in the finest galleries and museums of Amsterdam, New York, Tokyo or Beijing.

His large-format sculptures have been installed in parks and in the main streets and squares of Madrid, Seville, Valencia, Lisbon, Venice, Verona, Hertogenbosch or Beijing.