Rue Mallet-Stevens — ensemble Art déco - Paris 16, 17h20

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. The waltz eases now, the afternoon waning. From the chord E♭−9 it draws the spirit of the Modernist rue Mallet-Stevens (Robert Mallet-Stevens, 1927) at twenty past five: grey and magenta, olive and orange, a blue arc and lavender, a white square — clean geometry in the late afternoon. It holds the square (column 7, row 5) of the mosaic, which fully assembled forms an abstract portrait of Paris.