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Le déjeuner sur la poutre by Le Yack, seen face-on: seven figures sitting on a steel beam above a city and a park at dusk.

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Le déjeuner sur la poutre

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

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“There are seven of them on the same beam, above the city, and each has brought their own evening along. The trumpeter plays with his eyes lowered, for himself alone. The woman in the red dress is reading her phone, and she, the closest to us in time, is the one who seems furthest away. The dancer in feathers has her back to us, gloved hands laid flat on the steel, as if at the edge of a stage. Further along, a man in an eau-de-Nil suit speaks into the ear of a woman who is smoking and watches him out of the corner of her eye, without turning her head. At the end, against the post, a dancer raises her arm for an audience we cannot see. Between them, champagne flutes wait at the edge of the void. Below, the park and the lights of the city carry on without them. I do not know whether they are celebrating something or waiting for someone to come and fetch them.”

— Le Yack

Le Yack sets seven figures on a steel girder suspended above a city at dusk, each absorbed in what they are doing, from the trumpeter playing for himself alone to the dancer raising her arm at the end of the beam. The bluish grey of the sky and the dark green of the park, far below, hold the palette; the red of the dress, the orange of the corset and the eau-de-Nil of a suit wake it up. Champagne flutes punctuate the beam like so many small lights. A landscape format of 80 × 60 cm, where everyone shares the same void without sharing the same evening.

Technique
oil on canvas
Size
80 × 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 man in the felt hat holding a flute, the trumpeter in a blue suit and the woman in the red dress bent over her phone.
Detail: the man in the felt hat holding a flute, the trumpeter in a blue suit and the woman in the red dress bent over her phone.
Detail: the revue dancer seen from behind, white and black feather headdress, orange corset and long black gloves resting on the beam.
Detail: the revue dancer seen from behind, white and black feather headdress, orange corset and long black gloves resting on the beam.
Detail: the red-haired woman in a trench coat smoking, the man in the eau-de-Nil suit leaning towards her, and the dancer in a striped leotard by the post.
Detail: the red-haired woman in a trench coat smoking, the man in the eau-de-Nil suit leaning towards her, and the dancer in a striped leotard by the post.
The canvas in a black float frame above a cognac leather sofa, between two brass wall lights, on a pale ochre rendered wall.
The canvas in a black float frame above a cognac leather sofa, between two brass wall lights, on a pale ochre rendered wall.

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