Ripollés (1932) - Novios

Engraving by Ripollés, hand-painted and signed on Arches paper, made in his Más de Flors workshop

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 de la Plana.
His early years were not easy: he collected horse manure, worked as a scrap dealer, and painted with a broad brush, until he left for 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 studio is nature.
Today, at 92 years old, it remains so: he paints in the orchard of his manor 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 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.