Ripollés (1932) - Director

Engraving by Ripollés, hand-painted and signed on Arches paper, produced in his workshop of Más de Flors, in perfect condition.

Juan García Ripollés —known as Ripollés— was born in Alzira (Valencia, Spain) in 1932. His mother's death at childbirth led him to Castellón La Plana. His first years were not easy: he gathered horse dung, worked as a junkman, and painted with a broad brush, 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 returning to Spain in the 1960s, his workshop is nature.
Today, at 92 years old, it still is: he paints in the orchard of his farmhouse in the small hamlet of Mas de Flors, in the province of Castellón.
Over the last five decades, his canvases and prints have been shown 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.