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A man in a blue suit and felt hat, seen from behind on the tarmac, facing a polished aluminium twin-engine plane.

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

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“He has no suitcase. That was the first thing I set down, and everything else follows from it: a man without luggage in front of an aeroplane is no longer a departure, it is a stopover — an escale, that dead time between two flights when there is nothing to do but wait. I spent more hours on the raking light than on him. It is the shadows that tell the story: his and the aircraft’s stretch side by side across the concrete, almost the same length. The polished aluminium gathers up everything around it, the sky and the hangar alike; it is the only living surface in the canvas, and it belongs to the machine, not to the man. I painted him from behind, as I often do, so as not to decide for him. Is he boarding, is he watching someone else leave, or has he only come to see the plane? I do not choose.”

— Le Yack

A man in a dark blue suit and felt hat stands with his back to us on the tarmac, before a pre-war twin-engine aircraft with a polished aluminium fuselage. Radial engine, propeller and wing fill the right; a grey hangar and a pale sky close off the background. The raking light draws out two shadows across the pale concrete. The man has no luggage: nothing tells us whether he is arriving or leaving.

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
Detail of the radial engine and the propeller, the portholes of the silver fuselage and the grey hangar behind.
Detail of the radial engine and the propeller, the portholes of the silver fuselage and the grey hangar behind.
Close-up of the man in the felt hat, blue jacket and white collar, in front of the gleaming riveted fuselage.
Close-up of the man in the felt hat, blue jacket and white collar, in front of the gleaming riveted fuselage.
Detail of the wheel fairing and its shadow cast on the tarmac, with the LE YACK signature painted in the corner.
Detail of the wheel fairing and its shadow cast on the tarmac, with the LE YACK signature painted in the corner.
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The canvas in a black frame on a living-room wall, above a wooden sideboard with a record player and a green plant.

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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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