C# minor - Reflexions 4 — Watercolor on Paper by Arnaud Quercy
Watercolor on Paper, 30.0×42.0cm
Arnaud Quercy, 2023 — France
Where piano harmonies become visible — C# minor translated into pure color
Technical Specifications
- Medium: Watercolor on Paper
- Dimensions: 30.0×42.0cm
- Weight:
- Created: 2023, France
- Certificate: 20231231-0025
- SKU: Arnaud Quercy Creations / AQC0439 / 2023
- ✓ Original artwork, hand-painted 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
This work translates a small piano étude in C# minor into visual form through chromesthetic mapping. The C# minor triad — C#, E, G# — appears as blue-green, yellow-green, and blue tones, creating a direct correspondence between harmonic structure and color relationships. Part of the Synesthetic Explorations collection, the piece demonstrates how musical intervals can generate visual compositions.
Yellow-orange tones dominate the composition, occupying substantial areas alongside yellow-green passages that create the primary visual structure. Green accents provide harmonic counterpoints, while brief touches of blue-green and blue-violet appear as precise color notes. The watercolor technique allows these hues to blend and separate naturally, mimicking the way chord tones resolve and sustain in musical performance.
The work measures 30.0 × 42.0 cm on paper and weighs minimal for easy handling. Created in 2023, it carries certificate of authenticity number 20231231-0025 and bears the artist's signature in the bottom right corner. The piece sold to a private collector in St Charles, USA in November 2024, reflecting growing interest in synesthetic art practices that bridge sensory experiences.
Where this work lives
Provenance
- Origin: Arnaud Quercy, Paris, France, 2023
- Acquired: 2024-11-24 — Private collection — St Charles, USA during Rencontres au Marché de la Création
- Series: C# minor
- Collection: Synesthetic Explorations
- Technique: Watercolor
Exhibitions 2
- Transcendence – World Premiere of Ephemera Arts (2023-10-29 → 2023-11-15, Koblenzer Kunstverein e.V., Koblenz)
- Rencontres au Marché de la Création (2024-04-23 → 2024-12-31, Marché de la Création – Paris Montparnasse, Paris)
Other works in this series 4
Documented at 4
- Catalogue Raisonné — C# minor - Reflexions 4 — C# minor - Reflexions 4 — Chromesthetic Piano Translation — Arnaud Quercy (2023)
- Nanopublication — C# minor - Reflexions 4 — Digital Image Documentation - aqc0439_img_full_1536x2048_webp
- Nanopublication — C# minor - Reflexions 4 — Physical Specifications
- Nanopublication — C# minor - Reflexions 4 — Computational Image Analysis - AQC0439
