Flâneries Parisiennes series — 8 Artworks by Arnaud Quercy

Flâneries Parisiennes is a series of eight works spanning four years, four media, and a range of scales — from a 10 × 15 cm watercolor sketch to a 30 × 40 cm composed canvas. What holds them together is not a single site or a single moment but a mode of attention: the wandering gaze, the figure caught mid-street, the café, the neighborhood, the game of light on stone.

The series moves between the anonymous and the particular. The neighbourhood (AQC0434, watercolor, 30 × 40 cm, 2022) is the largest work and the most architectural — warm orange dominates, structured into interlocking geometric forms, with a deep blue counterpoint that reads as distance, as depth, as the presence of sky between buildings. It is a neighborhood as system rather than scene.

The lady at the café, Paris (AQC0417, gouache, 21 × 30 cm, 2023) inverts this: the architecture recedes, and what remains is a figure held in a warm amber-orange field, the gouache medium allowing both opacity and translucency within a single surface, dark violet and gray anchoring the composition against the warmth. The Stone Cutter (AQC0430, watercolor, 21 × 30 cm, 2023) shifts palette entirely — the dominant register is gray, cool and mineral, with blue-green accents and a grid of small rectangular forms at the base that make visible the logic of craft itself, of stone worked into order.

Across the series, media are not interchangeable. Gouache holds the café scene's opacity and social weight. Watercolor releases the neighborhood and the street into something more permeable, more atmospheric. Oil absorbs the garden reader into a darker gravity. The medium participates in the subject.

The series has shown extensively — from Koblenz to Saint-Germain-en-Laye, from Montparnasse to the Halle des Blancs Manteaux — and continues to circulate at Art Quam Anima. Four works have found collectors in France, São Paulo, Italy, and Los Angeles. Four remain available.