Boulevard des Batignolles - Paris 17, 18h00

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 dance softens into dusk. From the chord E♭−9 it draws the spirit of the boulevard des Batignolles at six: magenta and blue, green and a purple arc, grey and olive — stone façades and plane trees at the start of evening. It holds the square (column 7, row 7) of the mosaic, which fully assembled forms an abstract portrait of Paris.