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One of the 72 Facets of Paris, a series born of a piano waltz of the same name: the artist gave each of its seventy-two measures the harmony of a Parisian place at a given hour, then painted each harmony into colour and form through his ideamorphic method. This facet belongs to the prelude — played ad lib, free of the bar, soft and mysterious. From the chord D−Maj7♭5 it draws the spirit of the gardens of the Palais-Royal at a quarter to one: a pale grey disc hung like a lamp above ochre and magenta blocks and a cool blue panel — geometry under the night arcades. It holds the square (column 1, row 3) of the mosaic, which fully assembled forms an abstract portrait of Paris.