The work, which is in the collection of Panagiotis K. Laskaridis, depicts a well-known and particularly beloved theme of painters who dealt with the landscape. On the left side of the painting, a coast is represented on which boats are hoisted. Next to and inside them, groups of people are either busy with their nets or talking to each other. On the second level there is a building while steep rocks delimit the side of the painting. On the right, the sea opens up in which sailing ships sail. The light diffuses under the clouds, creating an idyllic atmosphere. The painter moves in the style of a conservative impressionism in which the handling of light leads to a partial dissolution of the details. The sea is depicted in a stylized manner, while the artist's interest lies in the relationship between color and surfaces, creating plasticity in both the clouds and the rocky areas.

Spyridon Papanikolaou (1905 – 1986) was an artist who initially studied sculpture and also worked as an assistant in the workshop of Thomas Thomopoulos. He turned to painting after 1937, while also working in stage design and iconography. His painting contains elements of restrained impressionism and an open-air style found in a large number of artists of the interwar period. In the work in the Laskaridis collection, Papanikolaou adopts compositional elements from the work of Konstantinos Volanakis, however, avoiding academic rendering. Attempting to convey the effect of light on surfaces, the painter uses freer brushstrokes, which leads him to abandon drawing in favor of color.