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The whole square canvas: a young woman with copper hair, a large white lace ruff and a dark gold-embroidered doublet drinks from a blue and silver can, looking straight ahead.

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Entre deux poses

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

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“She has kept the ruff, the little gold drop at her ear, the embroidered braid of the doublet, everything needed to hold still for hours. And then, between two sittings, she took out a blue and silver can, and she drinks while looking us straight in the eye, without the slightest embarrassment. That is the gaze I wanted: neither surprised nor guilty, almost amused, as if we were the ones arriving late. The light comes from the left; it takes the forehead, the cheek, the red of the lips set against the metal, then catches on every fold of the lace. Come closer to this ruff: each scallop is laid down one by one, white on grey, and at the wrist another piece of lace answers the first, above a gold-embroidered bracelet. The background stays dark and empty, outside any era. The can is cold, the lace is centuries old, and the young woman between the two does not seem to want to choose.”

— Le Yack

Le Yack paints a young woman in ceremonial dress of another age, her copper hair pinned up in curls, a wide white lace ruff around her neck. She drinks from a blue and silver can raised to her lips, and fixes the viewer with her grey-blue eyes, without looking away. The light from the left models the pale face and the red mouth, then catches on the folds of the lace; the dark doublet and its gold braid melt into the background. A 60 × 60 cm square format, where two eras cross paths for the length of a sip.

Technique
oil on canvas
Size
60 × 60 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
Close-up of the pale face with grey-blue eyes and copper curls, the red lips resting on the rim of the blue and silver can.
Close-up of the pale face with grey-blue eyes and copper curls, the red lips resting on the rim of the blue and silver can.
Detail of the hand holding the blue and silver can, the lace cuff and the gold-embroidered bracelet, against the dark ground.
Detail of the hand holding the blue and silver can, the lace cuff and the gold-embroidered bracelet, against the dark ground.
Detail of the ear with its small gold drop and the white lace ruff pleated in scallops, above the dark doublet and its gold braid.
Detail of the ear with its small gold drop and the white lace ruff pleated in scallops, above the dark doublet and its gold braid.
The canvas in a black float frame on an oxblood-red wall, above a mahogany console and a green banker’s lamp.
The canvas in a black float frame on an oxblood-red wall, above a mahogany console and a green banker’s lamp.

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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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