These brilliant color lithographs on offer from Grafos Verlag are provided with romantic titles. They throw open a window onto the far reaches of the sea and are at the same time made to communicate a sense of coziness, to start the day off with cheer. Some of these prints include: Let Me Paint the Blue Laughter of Sea and Sky, I Gave You the Gardens of the South, Lemons, I Gave You the Fruits of the Earth, Ampurias. In his House on the Sea (1985), the House on the coast of the Empurdà region, under a deep, violet-blue sky, appears quite still, as if looking within. The sky is night-blue in Messengers of the Morning, the wind picks up lightly. Songbirds were really daily guests at his house. This lithographic composition also goes back to sketches from cut out, colored tissue-paper which Ibarz pasted onto place to create a preliminary sketch that would give the impression of layers of color. Hence the color tones, the layered effect. He then went over it with the paintbrush.

Die ganze Nacht sang sie von ihren Farben: eine auf Aquarelltechnik aufgebaute Farblithographie von 1977, auf den Zweigen des Früchtebaumes drei Vögel, die drei anderen schweben in der klaren Luft. Wie die Nachtigallen ihr Lied der Nacht anvertrauen, verschenkt im Haus die Kunst ihre Farben. Euch gab ich die Früchte der Erde: Ibarz hat hier bekannte dekorative Mittel einzusetzen gewusst, die Birne, die Schale und Früchte aus flächendeckendem Rot. Das Dorf am Meer, Pueblo de mar I und . Die Fischerboote, die Buchten und ein unerschütterlicher Himmel. Spaniens Sonnenküste und die Zurückgezogenheit der Menschen vor der Weite des Meeres. . Wiederum tritt einer der grüngestrichenen Fensterflügel ins Bild, die volle

All Night Long, She Sang of Her Color s is a color lithograph based on watercolor techniques from 1977. On the branches of a fruit tree sit three birds, and three others glide through the clear air. Like a nightingale entrusting her song to the night, they give the house the art of their colors. In I Gave You the Fruits of the Earth, Ibarz successfully incorporated well-known decorative measures, the pears, the bowl and the fruit blanketed in red. The village on the sea, Pueblo de mar I and Pueblo de mar II: fishing boats, inlets and an imperturbable sky, Spain's sunny coast and withdrawn nature of the people before the breadth of the sea. In Frutero i Pajaros, a green-striped bird appears in the window, the fruit bowl overflows, a nude woman in profile, on the sill, a lemon. From the Gardens of the South is pervaded with thoughts of the autumn moon, the colorful leaves of the plane trees ruffling in the wind, a touch of nostalgia, snow-capped mountains in the depths.

Pueblo de mar I

Pueblo de Mar II

Frutero i Pajaros

And finally, there is Girasolesirasoles (Sunflowers), in which Ibarz plays with the brilliance of pure red, blue, yellow and purple. He applies the colors over one another in transparent layers. The landscape of Empurdà, the sea and the pine trees, the village, Ibarz's homeland, and at the same time, recollections of holidays for many. ek