Restaurant de la Sirène, Asnières Mark Gertler Two houses with frescoed facades

Two houses with frescoed facades (nos 21-3 and 27) can be seen on the left

A566 and A567

shows how Bevan's mature technique had developed into an angular style in which colour fused into broad masses of a subdued and subtle tone

He seems to have worked exclusively as a painter of still life

and the pinnacle on the right-hand corner of the roof-line

Restaurant de la Sirène, Asnières Mark Gertler Two houses with frescoed facadesPainted 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.