Boules, 2020

Vincent Trasov

Boules, 2020

Gouache, pen and paper on card, image size: 11 × 14 cm , frame size: 32 × 42 × 2 cm 

The gouache and pen work depicts three Mr. Peanut figures enjoying a round of the quintessential European sport-game on a sunny day. The ever-expanding body of work that is Vincent Trasov’s Mr. Peanut drawings began as a palm-sized flip book, which evolved into a 16 mm film of the Planters Peanuts corporation’s brand icon tap-dancing. The drawings, produced over the past twenty years, depict Mr. Peanut infiltrating scenes of historical, geographical and artistic contexts, as a symbol which has lost its original meaning and which since has taken on a myriad of new associations.