Musée d’Orsay · 1887
Restaurant de la Sirène à Asnières
Vincent van Gogh
Van Gogh painted the outside of a riverside restaurant in Asnières, just outside Paris, choosing to show its sun-bleached facade rather than the lively crowds eating and drinking inside.
Why it matters
Van Gogh painted the outside of a riverside restaurant in Asnières, just outside Paris, choosing to show its sun-bleached facade rather than the lively crowds eating and drinking inside.
Look closer
Look at the thick white brushstrokes Van Gogh uses for the sunlit walls — he pushes his palette brighter and whiter here than in most of his other paintings from this time.
Unlike most Impressionists, who left Paris for the countryside in summer, Van Gogh simply walked to nearby riverside towns like Asnières — this quiet restaurant scene was practically in his own neighborhood.
Value context
ELYIO places this work in an indicative editorial context of €10–20 million.
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