The painting by Carlo Carrà , Marina con vela proposes the landscape subject that for the Alexandrian painter from Quargnento had become very frequent starting especially from the third decade of the last century. The medium-sized work bears the artist's signature at the bottom left, inserted semi-hidden among the vegetation and as usual by the initials of the name alone, the "C" of Carlo and the surname written in capital letters and underlined .

Dated 1945, this seascape was particularly loved by the collector Giancarlo Rusconi who appreciated the vitality expressed in the movement of the sails, so distant from the first Carrà nature paintings in the 1920s. It is precisely in the inclination of the sails that we grasp the nature immortalized on a day of rough sea, which foams at the reliefs of the coast, and of which the fresh splashes in the foreground are captured at the strip of land that separates the observer from the sea.