Ripollés (1932) - Chica con frutas

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

Juan García Ripollés —known as Ripollés—, was born in Alzira (Valencia, Spain) in 1932. The death of his mother at birth took him to Castellón La Plana. His early years were not easy: he collected horse manure, he was a scrap dealer and a heavy 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 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 years old, it still is: he paints in the orchard of his homestead in the small hamlet of Mas de Flors, in the province of Castellón.
During the last five decades, his canvases and etchings have been shown in the finest galleries and museums of Amsterdam, New York, Tokyo or Beijing.
His large-scale sculptures have been installed in the parks and in the main streets and squares of Madrid, Seville, Valencia, Lisbon, Venice, Verona, Hertogenbosch.