Sea stacks in Capri

The artist perfectly conveyed the pale luminosity of the sky at dusk, on a day with changing weather, when the evening shadows touch the sea shores and create platinum shimmers on the water’s surface. The silhouette of the sea stacks stands out from the last strip of sunlight on the horizon, while the earth, tormented and burnt by the sun, allows only a few, meagre almond trees to grow among the rocks. The composition is solemn and clearly organised by the sequence of cliffs plunging into the sea, but Leto combines it through a nervous and thinly segmented spreading of the colours alternating with a more fluid brushstrokes as in a watercolour painting.