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About the Item
Title: French Modernist Still Life with Tennis Rackets Balls and Sporting Equipment
Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021)
Gouache on artist paper, unframed
Size: 24 x 19.75 inches (height x width)
Provenance: Artists estate, France
Condition: Good overall with light handling marks and edge wear on the edges consistent with age.
Description:
A vibrant and compositionally complex gouache by French modernist artist Guy Nicod, this striking still life explores the dynamism of sporting objects arranged with the precision and abstraction of a Cubist interior. The painting features a tabletop scattered with tennis rackets, bright yellow balls, tubes of equipment, and a table tennis paddle, their rounded forms interplaying with angular planes of blue, teal, and sienna.
Nicod reimagines the still life tradition through a distinctly 20th-century lens, transforming everyday sporting gear into an orchestration of colour, form, and balance. The overlapping rackets and spherical balls create rhythmic echoes across the surface, while flashes of gold and orange punctuate the deep cerulean and turquoise background. A framed image within the composition—a painting within a painting—adds a reflective, almost narrative element, suggesting a dialogue between leisure, art, and movement.
Executed in thickly layered gouache, the work combines the textural opacity of paint with the luminosity of paper beneath, enhancing the sense of depth and materiality. The flattened perspective, gestural marks, and carefully calibrated palette recall post-war French modernists influenced by both the decorative tradition and avant-garde abstraction.
Collectors of modern still lifes and design-inspired compositions will find this a compelling work that captures the spirit of mid-century Europe: playful yet disciplined, expressive yet thoughtfully composed. Unframed and ready for bespoke presentation, it demonstrates Nicod’s ability to merge contemporary subject matter with painterly sophistication — a study of motion and balance both literal and visual.
- Creator:Guy Nicod (1923 - 2021, French)
- Dimensions:Height: 24 in (60.96 cm)Width: 19.75 in (50.17 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Cirencester, GB
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU509317112672
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