A sweeping yet intimate composition, this work layers collage, oil, crayon, and pencil across two sheets of drawing paper to evoke the luminous, mythologically charged atmosphere of the Bay of Naples. Twombly's characteristic marks—gestural scrawls, smudged pigment, and fragmented notations—conjure the region's ancient coastline through sensation rather than depiction. The work pulses with a Mediterranean warmth, blending the poetic and the material in a meditation on memory, place, and classical allusion.