Ibarrola will rest with his wife under a tree in his beloved Oma forest

Euskaraz irakurri: Ibarrolak Omako baso kutunaren zuhaizpean hartuko du atseden, bere emaztearen aldamenean

The artist Agustín Ibarrola, who died this Friday at the age of 93, will be cremated and his ashes will rest next to those of his wife, Mari Luz Bellido, under a tree in the vicinity of the hamlet where the couple lived next to the Oma forest.

The son of the Basque painter and sculptor, José Ibarrola, has made these details known to the media at the Bilbao funeral home where the funeral chapel was installed this morning.

He explained that the family has received multiple expressions of condolence for the death of the artist and has stressed that the “best tribute” that can be paid to him is the “recognition of his work.”

José Ibarrola has highlighted that his father maintained throughout his life a “commitment against extremes and violence”, from an attitude “of dignity, morality and ethics”, something that in current times we would have to “learn a little about” .

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He explained that Agustín Ibarrola worked on his work “until the last moment” and, although he no longer used paint, he always had “a stack of pages and some crayons” on hand on the sofa in his house where he sat.