Ripollés (1932) - Saxo

Engraving by Ripollés, painted and signed by hand, made in his Mas de Flors workshop on Arches paper, in perfect condition.

Juan García Ripollés —known as Ripollés— was born in Alzira (Valencia, Spain) in 1932. His mother’s death during childbirth led him to Castellón La Plana. His early years were not easy: he collected horse dung, worked as a scrap dealer, and painted with a broad brush, 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 that had exhibited Picasso and Chagall.
Since his return to Spain in the sixties, his workshop is nature.
Today, at 92, it is still so: he paints in the orchard of his countryside house in the small hamlet of Mas de Flors, in the province of Castellón.
Over the last five decades, his canvases and engravings have been shown in the finest 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.