Ripollés - Sculpture, Bailarina - XL - 128 cm - Bronze

Bronze sculpture by the artist Ripollés, in perfect condition, rust color, number 4/4 PA. It appears in his catalog raisonné Ripollés 1980-2006 published by the Iván de Valencia Museum. It also comes with his author’s certification and weighs 45 kg.

Juan García Ripollés — known as Ripollés — was born in Alzira (Valencia, Spain) in 1932. His mother’s death during childbirth took him to Castellón La Plana. His early years were not easy: he gathered horse manure, was a junkman, and a heavy-handed painter, until he moved to Paris in 1954. He wanted to be a painter. And that was where he achieved it.
Four years after his arrival, he managed to hang his paintings in the prestigious gallery Drouand David, the same one that had shown Picasso and Chagall.
Since returning to Spain in the 1960s, his studio has been nature itself.
Today, at 92 years old, it still is: he paints in the orchard of his large country 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 best galleries and museums in 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.