Hôtel de Toulouse - Paris 1, 02h00 — Acrylic on Paper by Arnaud Quercy
Acrylic on Paper, 18.0×13.0×0.1cm
Arnaud Quercy, 2026 —
Own the breath the city holds before its day begins.
Technical Specifications
- Medium: Acrylic on Paper
- Dimensions: 18.0×13.0×0.1cm
- Weight: 0.1 kg
- Created: 2026,
- Certificate: 20260611-0033
- SKU: Arnaud Quercy Creations / AQC0981 / 2026
- ✓ 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
Step close to this small canvas and the Hôtel de Toulouse, the old mansion of the Banque de France, stands deserted at two in the morning. A blue disc and a wash of teal float above red and deep shadow; a single white square holds the silence at the centre, like a lit window in a sleeping palace. Grand and abandoned, the hour keeps perfectly still.
This is one of the 72 Facets of Paris, each measure of a piano waltz painted into colour and form. Closing the prelude — played ad lib, free of the bar, soft and mysterious — it is drawn from the chord A−Maj7♭5, a half-lit, suspended harmony poised on the edge of the waltz about to begin.
Acrylic on paper, 18 × 13 cm, signed on the reverse. Hang it and you own the deepest, stillest hour of Paris — the breath the city holds before its day begins.
Where this work lives
Provenance
- Origin: Arnaud Quercy, 2026
- Acquired: 2026-04-29 — Private collection — Paris, France
