Ripollés (1932) - Pensador

Sculpture by artist Ripollés, hand-painted and hand-filmed, made in his workshop at Mas De Flors
The colorful and beautiful sculpture bears its certificate of authorship

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 gathered horse manure, worked as a scrap dealer, and painted houses with a broad brush, until he moved to Paris in 1954. He wanted to be a painter. And there is where 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 his return to Spain, in the sixties, his studio is nature.
Today, at 92 years old, it still is: he paints in the orchard of his large house 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 best 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 plazas of Madrid, Seville, Valencia, Lisbon, Venice, Verona, Hertogenbosch or Beijing.