The lady at the café, Paris — Gouache on Paper by Arnaud Quercy
Gouache on Paper, 21.0×30.0cm
Arnaud Quercy, 2023 — France
Where café conversations become color — Paris transformed into pure expression
Technical Specifications
- Medium: Gouache on Paper
- Dimensions: 21.0×30.0cm
- Weight:
- Created: 2023, France
- Certificate: 20231231-0004
- SKU: Arnaud Quercy Creations / AQC0417 / 2023
- ✓ Original artwork, hand-painted by Arnaud Quercy
- ✓ Certificate of authenticity included
Arnaud Quercy is a Parisian artist working across painting, music, and sculpture. His practice is grounded in Ideamorphism — the principle that a work of art does not carry meaning, but triggers it. Each piece is engineered to diffract differently through each person who encounters it.
He creates and exhibits at Art Quam Anima, his gallery-atelier at 28 rue du Dragon, Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Paris.
About This Artwork
This expressive gouache painting explores the essence of Parisian café culture through bold abstraction and vibrant color relationships. Part of the "City of Lights, Shadows of Thoughts" collection, the work captures the energy and intimacy of urban social spaces through fragmented forms and gestural marks. Quercy transforms the familiar scene of a café patron into a dynamic composition that emphasizes emotional presence over literal representation.
Orange tones dominate the composition, creating warmth that fills most areas of the surface. Deep burgundy and chocolate browns provide substantial presence throughout the middle ground, while dark gray-violet forms anchor the composition with strong vertical and horizontal elements. Yellow-green accents appear in strategic locations, offering chromatic contrast against the warm palette. The gouache medium allows for both transparent washes and opaque passages, creating varied surface textures that enhance the work's expressive quality.
The painting measures 21 × 30 cm and weighs minimal amounts appropriate for paper support. Created in 2023, this work represents Quercy's contemporary approach to figurative abstraction within the French artistic tradition. The piece carries certificate of authenticity number 20231231-0004 and bears the artist's signature on the back. The work was sold in September 2024 to a private collector in São Paulo, Brazil, demonstrating its international appeal and the artist's growing recognition in global art markets.
Where this work lives
Provenance
- Origin: Arnaud Quercy, Paris, France, 2023
- Acquired: 2024-09-22 — Private collection — Sao Paulo, Brazil during Rencontres au Marché de la Création
- Series: Flâneries Parisiennes
- Collection: City of Lights, Shadows of Thoughts
- Technique: Gouache
Exhibitions 2
- Transcendence – World Premiere of Ephemera Arts (2023-10-29 → 2023-11-15, Koblenzer Kunstverein e.V., Koblenz)
- Rencontres au Marché de la Création (2024-04-23 → 2024-12-31, Marché de la Création – Paris Montparnasse, Paris)
Other works in this series 7
Documented at 4
- Catalogue Raisonné — The lady at the café, Paris — The Lady at the Café, Paris — Gouache Portrait — Arnaud Quercy (2023)
- Nanopublication — The lady at the café, Paris — Digital Image Documentation - aqc0417_img_full_1536x2048_webp
- Nanopublication — The lady at the café, Paris — Physical Specifications
- Nanopublication — The lady at the café, Paris — Computational Image Analysis - AQC0417
