The guitar, Inspiration
Physical Details
- Medium: Pencil on Paper
- Dimensions: 14.8 × 21.0 cm
- Weight: 0.0 kg
- Date: 2022
- Location: France
- Certificate of Authenticity: N°20221231-0053
- Catalogue Number: AQC0383
- Collection: Mediterranean Echoes
- Availability: Sold
Provenance
- Origin: Arnaud Quercy, Paris, France, 2022
- Acquired: 2025-06-08 — Private collection — Santa Monica, USA during Permanent Collection 2025 – Resonance in Form
Description
This pencil sketch serves as an exploration of three-dimensional possibilities—a guitar deconstructed and reimagined as sculptural elements. The overlapping planes and intersecting lines map out potential volumes and negative spaces, testing how the familiar curves of the instrument might translate into solid form. Each mark investigates the relationship between the guitar's organic silhouette and geometric abstraction, considering how light might play across surfaces and how the viewer might move around the eventual sculpture. The floating circles and flowing lines suggest movement and rhythm that could be captured in bronze or stone. This drawing is a conversation between the two-dimensional and the three-dimensional, a blueprint for transforming musical inspiration into tangible, sculptural poetry.
Where this work lives
- Series: Songs of the Rambla
- Collection: Mediterranean Echoes
- Technique: Pencil
Exhibitions
- 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)
- Salon d'art contemporain – Metamorphose, Paris (2024-12-26 → 2025-01-05, Halle des Blancs Manteaux, Paris)
- Permanent Collection 2025 – Resonance in Form (2025-01-01 → 2025-12-31, arnaudquercy.art, Paris)
- Paris Studio Visit (2025-02-18 → 2025-02-18, Artist's Studio, Paris)
- Marché d'Art Contemporain – Seine Port (2025-05-17 → 2025-05-17, MAC Seine-Port, Seine-Port)
- Nuit des Artistes, St Germain-en-Laye, France (2025-05-24 → 2025-05-24, La Nuit des Artistes, Saint-Germain-en-Laye)
Other works in this series
- Morning cuddle
- A woman in her sundress
- The Woman Singing, Barcelona
- A woman on the beach
- The heart of the traveller
- Twilight Play - The Quiet Hour
- Quiet Embrace
- Terraces of Ronda - Ancient Path
Documented at
- Gallery — The guitar, Inspiration
- Nanopublication — The guitar, Inspiration — Physical Specifications
- Nanopublication — The guitar, Inspiration — Cubist Exploration in Dialogue with Masters
- Nanopublication — The guitar, Inspiration — Sculptural Sketch—Investigation Suspended
- Nanopublication — The guitar, Inspiration — Digital Image Documentation - aqc0383_img_full_1536x2048_webp
Thematic Elements
Technical Notes
- Format: Small
- Type: Drawing
- Image resolution: 1536x2048 px
Page Information
- Last updated : 2026-06-11
- Language: EN | Version française
