Bb Major - Variations 16 — Acrylic on Paper by Arnaud Quercy

About This Artwork

This painting translates a piano étude into color. Arnaud Quercy maps the Bb Major triad — the notes Bb0, Bb2, D3, D4, and D5 — onto a visual field using a harmonic-chromatic system drawn from piano studies and cycle of fifths mapping. The result is a color score: each zone corresponds to a specific pitch relationship within the chord. The work belongs to the Bb Major series and sits within the broader Harmonic Crossing collection, which applies this chromatic-harmonic method across multiple keys and variations.

Violet moves toward black at the left edge, anchored by a deep magenta-purple vertical band that runs the full height of the composition. A dense black rectangle fills the lower-left area, grounding the lower register. Lavender and soft violet occupy the central and right-center zones, covering most of the picture surface. A warm orange rectangle rises through the middle, and a larger orange form with a rounded top appears in the upper right, providing strong contrast against the cooler violet fields. A pale off-white rectangle sits in the upper-left quadrant, adding a lighter accent. Gray fills the right edge. The color data confirms this warm-cool tension: orange tones appear throughout the surface, violet and gray occupy substantial areas, black anchors the lower zone, and a deep red-violet provides a secondary accent. The painting is acrylic on paper, applied in flat, clearly bounded geometric fields separated by thin black outlines.

The work measures 21 × 15 cm and weighs 0.1 kg. It was created on 2 October 2026 at the Rue du Dragon studio in Paris and shown the same day at Les Portes du Dragon, the open-studio exhibition at Art Quam Anima, Paris, running through 4 October 2026. The work is identified by certificate number 20261002-0177 and carries the asset code AQC1126. It is currently available.