D Minor - Research on Harmony - Variations 9 — Acrylic on Paper by Arnaud Quercy
Acrylic on Paper, 10.5×15.0cm
Arnaud Quercy, 2025 — France
Where D minor becomes visible — a piano chord you can see
First exhibited at Halle des Blancs Manteaux, Paris, December 2025 — Salon d'art contemporain – Metamorphose 2025–2026, Paris.
This work entered a private collection in Minden, Germany, December 2025.
- ✓ 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 D minor piano chord into visual form through chromesthetic mapping. Part of the Synesthetic Explorations collection, the piece converts musical harmony into color relationships, where the D minor triad appears as yellow-orange, orange, and red tones. The composition explores how chord voicing spreads across octaves, with each note finding its corresponding color through the artist's systematic approach to sound-color translation.
Yellow-orange tones dominate the surface, appearing in varied intensities that suggest the doubled A notes in the chord voicing. Orange areas provide the root tone presence, while red accents mark the minor third. The composition organizes these colors into geometric sections divided by black linear elements, creating a structured arrangement that mirrors musical notation. Warm color families fill most of the surface, with cooler red-orange passages providing contrast in smaller areas.
The work measures 10.5 × 15.0 cm and weighs 0.1 kg, executed in acrylic on paper. Certificate of authenticity number 20251123-0097 accompanies the piece, with the artist's signature located bottom right. This variation represents the ninth exploration in the Research on Harmony series, examining how minor chord qualities translate into visual relationships through the artist's chromesthetic system.
Details & Provenance
Technical Specifications
- Medium: Acrylic on Paper
- Dimensions: 10.5×15.0cm
- Weight: 0.1 kg
- Created: 2025, France
- Certificate: 20251123-0097
- SKU: Arnaud Quercy Creations / AQC0872 / 2025
Gallery Label
D Minor - Research on Harmony - Variations 9 Acrylic on Paper, 10.5×15.0cm Arnaud Quercy Creations / AQC0872 / 2025
Materials & Technique
This painting is created using professional-grade acrylic paints, known for their vibrant color saturation and excellent lightfastness. Acrylic allows for both thick impasto techniques and thin glazing layers.
The work is executed on paper, primed for optimal paint adhesion and longevity. 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.
