Ripollés (1932) - Tamborilero

Engraving by Ripollés, hand-painted and signed on Arches paper, created in his workshop at Más de Flors, although they are a series, no two are alike.

Juan García Ripollés —known as Ripollés— was born in Alzira (Valencia, Spain) in 1932. The death of his mother during childbirth took him to Castellón La Plana.
His early years were not easy: he collected horse dung, he was a junkman and a painter with a broad brush, until he moved to Paris in 1954. He wanted to be a painter. And there 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 is still like that: he paints in the courtyard 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 the parks and in the main streets and squares of Madrid, Seville, Valencia, Lisbon, Venice, Verona, Hertogenbosch or Beijing.