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Six bathers in vintage swimsuits sitting on the edge of a pool, feet in the turquoise water, under a pale sky.

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Le grand bain

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

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“Usually my figures look elsewhere. Here they all turned towards me at the same moment, and I let them. Their legs are in the water up to the calves, and that is all they have done so far. The rest lies ahead of them, and the title says it for them: le grand bain, the deep end, is something you talk about for a long time before you go in. I was after the line. Six swimsuits, six colours, one straight row on the edge of the pool, and the only thing that moves in the canvas is the water, which cuts their legs apart and sticks them back together askew. I do not know what they are waiting for: someone, a signal, or simply courage. I made the sky very pale so there would be nothing else to look at but them.”

— Le Yack

Six bathers lined up on the edge of a pool, legs in the water up to the calves, facing the viewer. Red, plain blue, blue with white flowers, ochre, olive green, a striped towel: each swimsuit holds its colour against a clear, cloudless sky. The water fills the lower half of the canvas in broad horizontal strokes of turquoise and white, where the reflections undo the legs. Square format, 60 × 60 cm.

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 three bathers on the left: red cap, blue-and-white striped cap, then a blue swimsuit with white flowers.
Detail of the three bathers on the left: red cap, blue-and-white striped cap, then a blue swimsuit with white flowers.
Detail of the three bathers on the right: ochre swimsuit, green headscarf tied under the chin, multicoloured striped towel.
Detail of the three bathers on the right: ochre swimsuit, green headscarf tied under the chin, multicoloured striped towel.
Close-up of the legs in the water and the broad brushstrokes that make up the reflections on the surface of the pool.
Close-up of the legs in the water and the broad brushstrokes that make up the reflections on the surface of the pool.
The framed canvas hung on the dark wall of a bar, above a marble counter where two cocktail glasses wait.
The framed canvas hung on the dark wall of a bar, above a marble counter where two cocktail glasses wait.

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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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