F Minor - Research on Harmony - Variations 20 — Acrylic on Paper by Arnaud Quercy
Acrylic on Paper, 15.0×21.0cm
Arnaud Quercy, 2025 — France
A minor chord made visible — three notes held in color and geometry.
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 Bogota, Colombia, February 2026.
- ✓ 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 acrylic painting converts the F Minor triad into color through chromesthetic mapping, a method that assigns specific hues to musical notes based on the circle of fifths. The F Minor chord consists of three notes — F, Ab, and C — which translate here into magenta, blue, and red. Painted on fifteen by twenty-one centimetre paper, the work belongs to the Synesthetic Explorations collection, an ongoing practice of converting harmonic relationships into visual form. Each variation in the series serves as a focused study of a single chord's visual character.
Warm salmon and peach tones fill the upper portion of the composition, where a large semicircular form sits within a rectangular frame. Cool blue occupies significant areas, appearing both as a background field and as vertical passages that cut through the warmer zones. A bold red-orange rectangle anchors the lower third, creating a strong contrast against the surrounding dark brown border. The geometric arrangement suggests the spread voicing of the chord across a keyboard, with each color block occupying its own register. Dark earth tones frame the entire composition, grounding the brighter interior colors.
The compact vertical format rewards close viewing, where the relationships between color zones become clearer at intimate distance. Acrylic on paper allows for flat, opaque color fields with clean edges between shapes. The work captures the particular tension of a minor chord — warm and cool tones held together in a structured arrangement that feels both grounded and slightly unsettled. The artist's monogram appears at the lower right corner.
The work includes certificate of authenticity number 20251123-0114 and is cataloged as AQC0895.
Details & Provenance
Technical Specifications
- Medium: Acrylic on Paper
- Dimensions: 15.0×21.0cm
- Weight: 0.1 kg
- Created: 2025, France
- Certificate: 20251123-0114
- SKU: Arnaud Quercy Creations / AQC0895 / 2025
Gallery Label
F Minor - Research on Harmony - Variations 20 Acrylic on Paper, 15.0×21.0cm Arnaud Quercy Creations / AQC0895 / 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.
