Ripollés (1932) - Guitarrista

Etched by Ripollés, painted and signed by hand on Arches paper, made in my workshop of Mas de Flors, though each one is a series and no two are ever the same.

Juan García Ripollés —known as Ripollés— was born in Alzira (Valencia, Spain) in 1932. The death of his mother at childbirth led him to Castellón La Plana.
His early years were not easy: he picked up horse dung, worked as scrap metal scavenger and as a sloppy painter, until he moved to Paris in 1954. He wanted to be a painter. And that is where 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 returning to Spain in the 1960s, his workshop is nature.
Today, at the age of 92, it still is: he paints in the orange grove of his big 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 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.