Ripollés (1932) - Flauta

Engraving by Ripollés, painted and hand-signed on Arches paper, made in the workshop of Más de Flors, although it’s a series; no two are the same.

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 collected horse manure, worked as a junk dealer, 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 gallery Drouand David, 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 remains so: he paints in the courtyard of his country 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 finest 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 squares of Madrid, Seville, Valencia, Lisbon, Venice, Verona, Hertogenbosch, or Beijing.