Broad pinks, yellows, blues, and whites open across the canvas like a landscape remembered at speed. De Kooning’s later abstractions loosen the figure into place, weather, and movement. The painting feels like stepping through a door where landscape is made of gesture.

Oil on canvas with sweeping brushwork, open composition, and luminous color.

The title suggests passage, water, and memory. The painting holds landscape as sensation rather than view.

After moving toward Long Island, de Kooning absorbed coastal light and space into his abstraction.

His later work influenced gestural abstraction and landscape-based modern painting.