The guitar, Inspiration — Pencil on Paper by Arnaud Quercy
Pencil on Paper, 14.8×21.0cm
Arnaud Quercy, 2022 — France
Where Picasso's guitar tradition meets contemporary spatial investigation—cubism rendered in pencil's tonal range.
First exhibited at Koblenzer Kunstverein e.V., Koblenz, October 2023 — Transcendence – World Premiere of Ephemera Arts.
This work entered a private collection in Santa Monica, USA, June 2025.
- ✓ Original artwork, hand-drawn by Arnaud Quercy
- ✓ Certificate of authenticity included
Arnaud Quercy is a Parisian artist working across painting, music, and sculpture. His practice is grounded in Ideamorphism — the principle that a work of art does not carry meaning, but triggers it. Each piece is engineered to diffract differently through each person who encounters it.
He creates and exhibits at Art Quam Anima, his gallery-atelier at 28 rue du Dragon, Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Paris.
About This Artwork
Arnaud Quercy engages the cubist tradition of guitar deconstruction established by Picasso and Braque in this pencil drawing. The work fractures the instrument into overlapping geometric planes, presenting body, neck, soundhole, and strings from simultaneous viewpoints. This is not illustration but spatial investigation—testing how a recognizable form can be dismantled and reassembled within the picture plane while maintaining its conceptual identity as guitar. The drawing belongs to Mediterranean Echoes, a collection drawing from cultural memory and symbolic forms.
The composition fragments the guitar through overlapping planes and intersecting lines. Tonal gradation creates localized volumes within flattened spatial relationships. The fretboard appears both frontally and in perspective while circular voids float free from their anatomical positions. Line weight variation and shading investigate how volume emerges within spatial compression. The paper's surface supports pencil's specific affordances—the ability to overlay, erase, and build tonal range through graphite's gradations.
The drawing measures fourteen point eight by twenty-one centimeters and was created in France. Quercy signed the work on the front. Certificate number 20221231-0053 authenticates this piece within the Mediterranean Echoes collection. The work originated as preparatory exploration for a potential sculpture but remains unrealized as Quercy's practice shifted toward symbolic works and abstraction.
Details & Provenance
Technical Specifications
- Medium: Pencil on Paper
- Dimensions: 14.8×21.0cm
- Weight:
- Created: 2022, France
- Certificate: 20221231-0053
- SKU: Arnaud Quercy Creations / AQC0383 / 2022
Gallery Label
The guitar, Inspiration Pencil on Paper, 14.8×21.0cm Arnaud Quercy Creations / AQC0383 / 2022
Materials & Technique
This drawing is created using artist-grade pencils on acid-free, archival paper. The pencil's graphite core deposits precise tonal gradations through controlled pressure, enabling both delicate line work and rich tonal passages.
Each piece is signed by the artist and includes a certificate of authenticity with unique registration number.
Provenance
This work is held in a private collection. Provenance and exhibition history are maintained in the gallery archives.
