This is one of Valença’s first works in plein air (open air).

Morning sunshine.

Saveiros (sloops) on sand with sails held as a tent being dried under sunshine.

Warehouse with its wooden stakes at low tide. Masts and boats anchored with lowered sails.

Itaparica Island can be seen at distance. It could depict a poem by the composer Dorival Caymmi or a scene of writer Jorge Amado’s novel Mar Morto (Dead Sea).