La chambre claire
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One of a kind, sold rolled or stretched in a black floater frame, with a certificate of authenticity. Free delivery within France and the European Union.
“She has closed her eyes and turned her face towards the window, the way you turn towards someone speaking softly. Almost everything is in shadow: the dark green wall, half of her body. The light comes in from the left, slides over the turquoise sill, stops on her forehead, on her collarbones, on the white of her blouse, then settles in pale rectangles on the wall behind her. Her shadow spreads out beside her, larger than she is. One hand on her knee, the other laid flat in the shadow, she does nothing, and that nothing is enough to fill the room. The red of the skirt is the only strong note; everything else speaks softly. The title says claire, bright, and yet darkness holds the greater part of the canvas. I do not know whether she is waiting for something or has just received it.”
— Le Yack
Le Yack seats his sitter by a tall window, eyes closed, her face reaching towards a light that leaves almost everything else in half-darkness. Patches of soft green break up the dark wall, across which the young woman’s shadow stretches, larger than she is. The turquoise of the sill and the white of the blouse catch the daylight; the bright red of the skirt strikes the only brilliant note. A 60 × 60 cm square format, where the brightness promised by the title lies in a few bands of light.
- 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
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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.
