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A young nude woman, sponge in hand, bathing in an oval tub in front of a window open onto Haussmann-style façades.

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Baignoire, fenêtre sur toits

Le Yack · 2026 · oil on canvas · 60 × 80 cm

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“The light comes in through the French window and stops halfway. That is more or less all I was after: for the bathroom to stay in its shadow, and for the city to be in full daylight. She holds her sponge against her shoulder; she is no longer washing, she is looking at the rooftops opposite. I do not know what she finds there. Perhaps nothing — just the fact that beyond the glass there is a building, windows, people getting up. We think a bath cuts us off; in truth, we are never as close to the street as when sitting in a bathtub, three metres from a balustrade. I left both casements open. Closed, it was a naked woman in a bathroom. Open, it is someone taking the air.”

— Le Yack

An oval bathtub in the middle of a room left in half-darkness, and facing it a French window open onto a wrought-iron balustrade, the pale façade opposite and its zinc roofs. All the light comes from there: it whitens the enamel, catches the brass of the taps and the sheet dropped over the rim, then fades into the browns of the corners.

Technique
oil on canvas
Size
60 × 80 cm
Year
2026
Signature
signed by the artist, titled and dated on the back
Support
pure linen canvas
Finish
protective matt varnish
Condition
original work, one of a kind
Detail of the bather’s face and torso, sponge against her shoulder, before the gilded taps and the iron balustrade.
Detail of the bather’s face and torso, sponge against her shoulder, before the gilded taps and the iron balustrade.
Detail of the window panes: the pale façades of the building opposite and a patch of sky, painted in fine strokes.
Detail of the window panes: the pale façades of the building opposite and a patch of sky, painted in fine strokes.
Close-up of the folds of the sheet draped over the rim of the bath, where the grain of the canvas remains visible beneath the paint.
Close-up of the folds of the sheet draped over the rim of the bath, where the grain of the canvas remains visible beneath the paint.
The canvas in a black frame above a wooden sideboard, with a turntable, magazines and a green plant, in a light living room.
The canvas in a black frame above a wooden sideboard, with a turntable, magazines and a green plant, in a light living room.

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Alexandre Pelletier, known as Le Yack, paints in oil in Orléans. A Fine Arts graduate, he spent nearly thirty years composing images as an art director before returning to the canvas.

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