L’INCONNU Amsterdam
Release 01
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Gouache, Prinsengracht, after rain: a canal at night, rain on the water, narrow gabled houses with three lit windows, a tram on the far quay, a figure at the railing.

A collaboration · House Artist 01

L’INCONNU × Céleste Duvray

She paints the hour when public life becomes private.

LX-CD-001Amsterdam1988 — 1989Gouache · graphite · paper

Prinsengracht, 21.40 — after rain.
Painted detail of one illuminated Amsterdam window
Handwritten: Prinsengracht, 21.40 — after rain.
Unfinished gouache: the first thin wash of the same canal, lights only blocked in.
First wash, left unfinished
01The HousePrinciples, evidence, and what is not yet measured.

A meeting in fragments.

Small colour print: the canal façades at night, one window lit.
Observation · Prinsengracht
02House HandThe hands that work inside the House. Sixteen rooms; this is room 01.
Gouache: the second window on the fourth floor, painted again much larger, its edges dissolving into paper.
LX-CD-014 · One window, again
Gouache study, Tram glass: the inside of a tram window at night, fogged, lamps and rain outside, a red seat below.
LX-CD-002 · Tram glass
Small gouache: a stamped paper tram ticket on a wet floor.
Small gouache: four brass doorbells on a brown door.
LX-CD-004 · Four bells

Material memory

Gouache · graphite · water · paper

Six gouache tests in different ultramarines, one scraped back — Colour tests, blues.
  1. Handwritten: IJ, 22h.
  2. Handwritten: canal, rain.
  3. Handwritten: no moon.
  4. Handwritten: too warm (crossed out).
  5. Handwritten: Prussian, thinned.
  6. Handwritten: the frame, not the glass.
LX-CD-006 · Colour tests, blues · Gouache on paper
Gouache, The table after closing: a worked-in table at night from above — a taped board with an unfinished blue study, paint water, brushes, a contact sheet, a rag; studies pinned to the wall, rain on the window.
LX-CD-005 · The table after closing · Studio, Bloemgracht

The city as a system

Small colour print: a row of canal façades at night, windows in a regular grid.
i · the façade
Graphite structure of four canal houses: gables, axes, the window grid, floor lines running past the row.
ii · the structure
Six painted window samples: amber, dark, half-lit, blue — the same window in six lights.
iii · the window, six lights
A plain rectangle of ultramarine gouache: the window with everything taken out but its blue.
iv · LX-CD-014 · One window, again
03House ObjectObject 01. Release 01 opens 02.04.2027, 12:00 CEST. Not shown before the reveal.

A shared perspective.

Small colour print: the ferry crossing the IJ at night.
Source · Het IJ, ferry to Noord
Gouache, Het IJ, the last ferry: a lit ferry halfway across the wide dark IJ, a low far shore with a crane, a woman in a green coat at the railing.

LX-CD-010Het IJ, the last ferryGouache on paperRecorded by the House

Handwritten: their line — my water.
04House KeyAccess is not open.

From fragment to painting

Haarlemmerdijk

Small colour print: the greengrocer lit amber at closing, a woman with an umbrella outside.Handwritten: here.
Observation
Graphite, Greengrocer, line: the shop front, the awning, the woman with the umbrella, a car and a bicycle.
LX-CD-007 · Greengrocer, line
Gouache colour choice: browns, an amber, blues — some dragged dry.
Colour
Gouache, Greengrocer, first version: the same street with the yellow pushed too far.Handwritten: too yellow — loud, with yellow crossed out.
LX-CD-009 · Greengrocer, first version · rejected version
Gouache, Greengrocer, closing: the greengrocer lit amber under its striped awning, two lit windows above, the woman waiting outside.
LX-CD-008 · Greengrocer, closing · Gouache on paper

L’INCONNU × Céleste Duvray — a room of the House

Gouache, A room in the House: a room of the House in an old canal house at night — three tall windows, small works hung in strict rows, a long table under one lamp; deep ultramarine runs in across the floor and up a window frame.
LX-CD-011 · A room in the House · Gouache on paper
Detail: the middle window of the room and the lamp, close.
Detail: the small works hung in rows.
Detail from the canal painting: the one lit window.
LX-CD-001 · detail
Gouache, Third floor: a third-floor window at night, plants on the sill, and across the canal the façades with their lit windows reflected in the water.
LX-CD-013 · Third floor · Herengracht
Small gouache, Hallway: a wet folded umbrella against hallway tiles.
LX-CD-012

L’INCONNU × Céleste Duvray — House Artist 01

House Records · 5 public · 2 held
  1. LX-CD-034NUMBER 34Memory Record
  2. LX-CD-008THE BLUE BICYCLEObject Record
  3. LX-CD-021THE SHARED PUMPHouse Detail
  4. LX-CD-011THE UNENTERED STOREWindow Record
  5. LX-CD-001PRINSENGRACHT, AFTER RAINSurface Record
  6. —2 heldDraft
Handwritten: for the House — C.

L’INCONNUCéleste D.

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