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A woman in a white dress leaning against the curved façade of a motel, two palm trees and a parked black saloon.

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L’ombre courbe

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

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“She raises her head towards something I did not paint. That is the whole picture: the motel wall curves behind her, it shelters her and hems her in a little, and her shadow follows the curve instead of falling straight. I searched for that for a long time — a shadow that hugs the building, that does not leave it. The car park is empty, the saloon has been waiting a while, no one gets out. All the warmth of the canvas lies in one lit window upstairs, an orange square in the middle of the blue-green. I do not know if there is anyone behind it. I think she is looking at that window, but I am not certain, and I prefer it that way. We have all looked up at a light that was not meant for us.”

— Le Yack

A woman in a white dress stands against the curved façade of a motel, her head raised. Two palm trees rise in front of the long building with its outside walkways; a black 1940s saloon stands in a deserted car park. The blue-green of the sky spreads across the walls, the tarmac stays grey, and a single lit window pierces the upper floor. A 60 × 60 cm square canvas, signed Le Yack lower right.

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: the two palm trees, the long façade with its walkways and the black saloon parked in the empty car park.
Detail: the two palm trees, the long façade with its walkways and the black saloon parked in the empty car park.
Detail: the woman in the white dress, head raised, in the warm light sliding across the curved wall.
Detail: the woman in the white dress, head raised, in the warm light sliding across the curved wall.
Detail: the window lit in orange, the only warm note on the bluish render of the façade.
Detail: the window lit in orange, the only warm note on the bluish render of the façade.
The framed painting above a teak sideboard, with a turntable, a green plant and a teal wall.
The framed painting above a teak sideboard, with a turntable, a green plant and a teal wall.

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Le Yack, in round glasses, paints with a fine brush on a canvas laid flat in the studio.

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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