Le siècle d’or
Available · from €2,400
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.
“The Golden Age, in Holland, was first and foremost a matter of money. The portraits I love were commissioned by people who had just made a great deal of it, and the lace they had painted around their necks is not ornament: it is a figure. All I did was swap one kind of wealth for another. The red box, the yellow M, the fry held between two fingers the way one once held a pearl. It was on the ruff that I spent the most time. If it is not painted seriously, all that is left is a joke, and a joke wears thin in three days. What interests me comes afterwards: she eats while she is being painted, something no sitter would ever have allowed herself, and I still do not know whether she thinks she is rich or is consoling herself. I did not want to decide.”
— Le Yack
A young woman in a black dress and a dark cap wears a wide white lace ruff, before a brown-green hanging where a column shows through. The raking light smooths the flesh tones and deepens the drapery, as in seventeenth-century Dutch portraits. The one departure lies in her hands: a red box of fries with a yellow M, and a fry raised to her mouth.
- Technique
- oil on canvas
- Size
- 60 × 80 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.
