Currently owned by the Yale University Art Gallery, the painting depicts a seascape from a vacationing spot in Domburg, Zeeland, Netherlands.

[2][4] In the early 20th century, Domburg, Zeeland became a popular vacationing spot amongst Dutch artists, who were inspired by the landscape, and bright lighting of the beaches.

[5] By the Sea differs from his earlier Hague School paintings starting with the shape of the canvas, which is more square, typical to that of his later signature works.

The painting is void of people, and emphasizes the seascape with the contrasts of the sea and sky, bisected in the middle, horizontally.

But if you carefully observe the sequence of my work, you will see that it progressively abandoned the naturalistic appearance of things and increasingly emphasized the plastic expression of relationships.