Restaurant de la Sirène, Asnières Mark Gertler Piero painted a poetic interpretation

Piero painted a poetic interpretation of the classical source

was popular with the Impressionists and the site of several paintings by van Gogh

inhabited by the receding forms of men and animals

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Restaurant de la Sirène, Asnières Mark Gertler Piero painted a poetic interpretationPainted in 1887, a year after van Gogh had moved to Paris from his native Holland. The artist's response to the work of the Impressionists is evident in the short, straw like strokes of paint and bright colour. Asnires, a district on the river Seine near Paris, was popular with the Impressionists and the site of several paintings by van Gogh, dating from his first period in Paris.