In the early 1970s Sassu began to experiment with a form of landscape painting in which the starting point offered by his observation of reality was translated into an occasion for extremely free and pure, almost abstract painting. This is the case with this landscape, where the sea, the cloudy sky, rocky coast, and a twisted red pine in the center of the image seem to lose their more naturalistic connotations to become elements in a virtuoso exercise on color. Other works in this vein are Flora dell’Auayan Tepuy (1976), Atardecer (1984), and Atardecer en la carretera de Formentor (1985).