Egry painted this picture while he was staying in Bruges, Belgium. The man and the woman, as well as the decoration on the façade of the buildings are indicative of foreign origin, and the influence of western art, French art in special, is also present. He tries to keep the composition in one plane and paints in such a way as to suggest as little depth as possible, and arranges figures so that stay together. The green grass symbolizing nature, the greyish-ochre wall, the two figures, the effort to stylize, decorative patches, contours around forms, and the portrayal, rather grotesque and nervous than idealizing, recall the way artists of post-impressionism and art nouveau saw the world. Some of his grotesque drawings were published in comic papers around the 1910s.
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