The heart of the traveller — Acrylic on Paper by Arnaud Quercy
Acrylic on Paper, 21.0×30.0cm
Arnaud Quercy, 2023 — France
Where the traveller's heart becomes visible through color and form
Technical Specifications
- Medium: Acrylic on Paper
- Dimensions: 21.0×30.0cm
- Weight:
- Created: 2023, France
- Certificate: 20231231-0070
- SKU: Arnaud Quercy Creations / AQC0483 / 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
The Heart of the Traveller explores the emotional landscape of movement and memory through abstract forms and color relationships. Part of the Mediterranean Echoes collection, this work captures the internal experience of travel as a series of layered impressions and fleeting encounters. The composition presents travel not as geographic displacement but as an accumulation of visual and emotional fragments.
Silver and steel gray tones dominate the composition, creating a neutral foundation that suggests the ephemeral quality of memory. Deep maroon and brown areas provide dramatic contrast, appearing as bold geometric shapes that anchor the lighter passages. Soft blue and yellow-green accents emerge throughout the surface, offering moments of chromatic intensity against the predominantly muted palette. The paint application varies from smooth washes to textured passages, with linear elements and small geometric forms creating visual punctuation across the surface.
The work measures 21 × 30 cm and uses acrylic on paper, making it part of the medium-size classification within Quercy's body of work. Created in 2023, it represents the artist's contemporary approach to abstract painting within the Mediterranean Echoes series. The piece carries certificate of authenticity number 20231231-0070 and bears the artist's signature on the front surface.
Where this work lives
Provenance
- Origin: Arnaud Quercy, Paris, France, 2023
- Series: Songs of the Rambla
- Collection: Mediterranean Echoes
- Technique: Acrylic
Other works in this series 8
Documented at 4
- Catalogue Raisonné — The heart of the traveller — The Heart of the Traveller — Abstract Composition — Arnaud Quercy (2023)
- Nanopublication — The heart of the traveller — Digital Image Documentation - aqc0483_img_full_1366x2048_webp
- Nanopublication — The heart of the traveller — Physical Specifications
- Nanopublication — The heart of the traveller — Computational Image Analysis - AQC0483
Thematic Elements 8
Collection Notice
This work is part of the artist's permanent collection and is not available for acquisition.
