L’INCONNU Amsterdam
Oil on linen, Night falls, Herengracht: night over a canal, a sky of swirling umber and gold, a humpback bridge with two lamps and a bicycle against the railing, leaning canal houses with a few lit windows, a tall church tower, the water repeating the lights in long broken strokes.
Herengracht, 23:48

A collaboration · House Artist 02

L’INCONNUMarcell Voss

Amsterdam after midnight.

LX-MV-001Amsterdam2025 — 2026Oil on linen

01

The canal.

The water says what the sky says.

Handwritten: the water says what the sky says.
Oil on linen, The canal says what the sky says: a canal receding between two rows of leaning houses and trees, lamps along both quays, a far bridge, the sky turning in wide gold strokes and the water answering it.
LX-MV-002 · The canal says what the sky says · 2025Keizersgracht, 23:10
Unfinished oil: the same canal at its first layer, thin umber and ochre scrubbed over the brown ground, the lights only placed.
LX-MV-003 · First layer, left · 2025
Handwritten: first layer. stop here?

02

Some windows
remain awake.

Behind each one, a life the city does not know.

Oil on linen, Some windows remain awake: tall canal-house façades filling the canvas, rows of dark windows, five of them lit amber, a strip of moving sky between the gables.
LX-MV-004 · Some windows remain awake · 2025Prinsengracht, 01:20
  • Detail: lit window 1.
  • Detail: lit window 2.
  • Detail: lit window 3.
Handwritten: every window, a different life.

03

Same canal.
Different night.

Oil on linen, Brug 23, somebody crossing: a stone humpback bridge across the whole canvas, two lamps, a cyclist crossing and a bicycle against the railing, the arch and its reflection closing into one broken ring in the dark water.
LX-MV-005 · Brug 23, somebody crossing · 2026Reguliersgracht, 00:40
Handwritten: brug 23 - 00:40.

04

Nobody you know.

Four small panels, painted the same week.

Handwritten: nobody I know. good.
Oil on panel, Walking home: A figure walking home along a canal under one lamp, his reflection broken in the wet stones.
LX-MV-006 · Walking home · 2026Leliegracht, 00:15
Oil on panel, Two, outside: Two people standing outside a lit café window, the counter and bottles behind the glass only suggested.
LX-MV-007 · Two, outside · 2026Jordaan, 23:30
Oil on panel, Under one umbrella: Somebody under an umbrella in the rain, a street lamp and its long reflection.
LX-MV-008 · Under one umbrella · 2026Utrechtsestraat, 22:05
Oil on panel, Waiting for the 13: A figure waiting at a tram stop under the wires, the lit sign beside them, the tram far away.
LX-MV-009 · Waiting for the 13 · 2026Marnixstraat, 23:55
Oil on linen, Rain, a tram approaching: a narrow street in the rain between lit houses, tram wires and rails running to a tram coming head-on with its light on, lamps doubled in the wet stones, somebody under an umbrella.
LX-MV-010 · Rain, a tram approaching · 2026Vijzelstraat, 21:40

05

Rain.

The city moves even when nothing moves.

Handwritten: rain makes the city twice.

06

04:10

What remains after everyone leaves?

Oil on linen, Four ten: a canal almost entirely dark, one window lit high in a row of houses, its light falling once into the water, an empty bicycle against the railing.
LX-MV-011 · Four ten · 2026Brouwersgracht, 04:10
Handwritten: 04:10 - one window, one bicycle.

07

Before it is a city.

Umber, ochre, a little brick. The blue stays in the box.

Oil · linen · rigger · palette knife

Oil on linen, The palette, a Wednesday: a wooden palette under a lamp, thick blobs of cream, yellow, ochre, amber, brick, umber and one teal around the rim, mixtures smeared in the middle, a brush lying across.
LX-MV-012 · The palette, a Wednesday · 2026
Handwritten: the blue stays in the box.
  • Umber, labelled: umber, 23h.
  • Ochre, labelled: ochre - window.
  • Brick red, labelled: brick, Brouwersgracht.
  • Yellow, labelled and struck through: too warm.
  • Teal, labelled: teal, once only.
  • Cream, labelled: the lamp.

LX-MV-013 · Colour tests, amber · 2025

Handwritten: too much yellow - again.

08

A city remembered differently.

Oil on linen, After midnight: almost everything gone dark — a low skyline with one spire, three lit windows, a small moon and a few stars, the water holding a thin line of light.
LX-MV-014 · After midnight · 2026the IJ, 02:30
L’INCONNU AmsterdamMarcell V.

L’INCONNU × Marcell Voss — House Artist 02 · Amsterdam, 2025–2026

The archive

  1. LX-MV-001Night falls, Herengracht2025
  2. LX-MV-002The canal says what the sky says2025
  3. LX-MV-003First layer, left2025
  4. LX-MV-004Some windows remain awake2025
  5. LX-MV-005Brug 23, somebody crossing2026
  6. LX-MV-006Walking home2026
  7. LX-MV-007Two, outside2026
  8. LX-MV-008Under one umbrella2026
  9. LX-MV-009Waiting for the 132026
  10. LX-MV-010Rain, a tram approaching2026
  11. LX-MV-011Four ten2026
  12. LX-MV-012The palette, a Wednesday2026
  13. LX-MV-013Colour tests, amber2025
  14. LX-MV-014After midnight2026
Handwritten: for the House - M.

Published by L’INCONNU, Amsterdam, 2026. Marcell Voss is a House artist of L’INCONNU; works, notes and records belong to the House archive.

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