Juan Garcia Ripolles 1932 Alzira, Spain Lying woman' (1999) Bronze finished, grey-green patina. H. 18 cm, L. 33,5 cm, weight 2,6 kg. Signed on the side, with traced of oxidation, part. rubbed. JUAN GARCIA RIPOLLES 1932 Alzira, Spanien Ripolles is one of the better Spanish sculptors The expressive and deeply textural art of Juan Ripollés functions as a brilliant contemporary dialogue with the foundational masters of modern art, sharing structural DNA with the world's most highly valued auction legends. While he operates within his own accessible market, Ripollés echoes the boundary-pushing spirit of Leonardo da Vinci, Rembrandt, and Claude Monet, while adopting the bold, fractured human forms popularized by Pablo Picasso and the sweeping, spatial minimalism characteristic of Eduardo Chillida. His whimsical figures manipulate reality with a dreamlike, gravity-defying freedom that calls to mind the iconic surrealism of René Magritte and Salvador Dalí, yet they carry an emotional vulnerability reminiscent of Amedeo Modigliani and Edvard Munch. Furthermore, the raw, deeply layered textures across his resin and glass sculptures mirror the physical intensity found in the masterpieces of post-war and contemporary giants like Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Francis Bacon, and Jean-Michel Basquiat, as well as the vibrant, graphic sensibilities of Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and Cy Twombly. Much like how Gustav Klimt, Mark Rothko, Paul Cézanne, and Paul Gauguin redefined color and form to shock the traditional art market, Ripollés infuses his creations with a joyful, poetic distortion—proving that whether an artist fetches record-shattering hundreds of millions like Alberto Giacometti or crafts monumental public works, they all share an undeniable obsession with reshaping how we perceive the human experience.