974 - Martin Wirth, Pine grove near Sóller on Mallorca and maquis on the Costa del Sol, Spain 1998/99

Martin Wirth, Pine grove near Sóller on Mallorca and maquis on the Costa del Sol, Spain 1998/99 (1939 – 2017 Ilsenburg), two drawings, 1) coloured pencil on paper, signed and dated (19)98 lower right, titled verso "Kiefernhain bei Soller Mallorca, 1998", large boulders in pink, orange and violet beneath gnarled pines with tufts of needles and cones, light blue sky between the branches, good condition commensurate with age, slightly creased, image 24x32 cm (HxW), 2) fineliner on paper, watercoloured, signed and dated (19)99 lower right, titled verso "Maccie an der Costa de Sol (Spanien)", hilly landscape with winding path, pines on an orange mound of earth on the left, slender columnar trees on the right, violet mountain ranges beyond under a cloudy sky, good condition commensurate with age, slightly creased, image 24x32 cm (HxW), overall size max. 24x33 cm (HxW) Sóller lies in a broad basin on the north-west coast of Mallorca, a few kilometres inland from Port de Sóller, and is enclosed on all sides by the Serra de Tramuntana, whose cultural landscape has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2011. The most common conifer on the Balearic island is the Aleppo pine, which forms open pine woods near the coast and climbs to altitudes of about 1000 metres. The German term Macchie, Italian macchia and French maquis, denotes the evergreen shrub formation of the Mediterranean region of holm oak, pistachio and rockrose, which grows three to five metres high. The Costa del Sol stretches for some 150 kilometres along the Andalusian coast of the province of Málaga and is flanked inland by mountain ranges such as the Sierra de Mijas and the Sierra Blanca. The draughtsman Martin Wirth lived in Darlingerode (today part of Ilsenburg) in the Harz.