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The whole canvas: a barefoot young woman in a red dress dances with her back to us in an underwater drawing room, beneath a ceiling of waves crossed by yellow and red fish, between a dark chest of drawers and a yellow sofa.

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

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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.

“The sea has come into the drawing room, and she has not noticed, or else she has decided it is the right moment to dance. Barefoot, on tiptoe, she has her back to us, face raised, eyes closed; with one hand she lifts her red dress, with the other she opens the air, or the water, I no longer know which. The ceiling has become the surface: light falls from it in rays, passes through the net curtains floating before the window and comes to tremble in golden patches on the floor. Up there, the yellow fish dart in a shoal one way, the red ones the other, like two crowds that do not mix. Everything else has stayed in its place: the chest of drawers and its gilded handles, the lamp, the bouquet, the yellow sofa and its cushions. On the chest of drawers, a small glass globe keeps its own orange reflections. I did not paint a flood, I painted a waltz. When the water recedes, she will have to stop. Not before.”

— Le Yack

Le Yack floods a period drawing room: the ceiling has become the surface of the water, from which rays of light fall and through which shoals of yellow and red fish pass. In the middle of the room, a barefoot young woman, seen from behind, turns on tiptoe in a red dress she lifts with one hand, eyes closed. White net curtains suspended before the window, a dark chest of drawers on the left, a golden-yellow sofa on the right, patches of light on the floor: everything is steeped in blue. A 60 × 80 cm portrait format, where the red dress turns amid all that blue.

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
Close-up of the dancer from behind, her profile raised and eyes closed, one hand holding the edge of her billowing red dress, before the window with its white net curtains.
Close-up of the dancer from behind, her profile raised and eyes closed, one hand holding the edge of her billowing red dress, before the window with its white net curtains.
Detail of the ceiling turned water surface: a shoal of yellow fish, a few red fish and bubbles above a large painting of blue flowers, the dancer’s profile at the bottom left.
Detail of the ceiling turned water surface: a shoal of yellow fish, a few red fish and bubbles above a large painting of blue flowers, the dancer’s profile at the bottom left.
Detail of the dark wooden chest of drawers with gilded handles, the pale bouquet, the glass globe and a blue chair, brushed by the flounces of the red dress.
Detail of the dark wooden chest of drawers with gilded handles, the pale bouquet, the glass globe and a blue chair, brushed by the flounces of the red dress.
The canvas in a black float frame above a dark wooden sideboard, in a dining room with midnight-blue walls, near two brass candlesticks.
The canvas in a black float frame above a dark wooden sideboard, in a dining room with midnight-blue walls, near two brass candlesticks.

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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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