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A woman in a beige trench coat on the telephone in a glazed phone box, at dusk, before a wet street where a vintage car passes.

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Ne quittez pas

Le Yack · 2026 · oil on canvas · 70 × 70 cm

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“Ne quittez pas — hold the line — is what you say when you have nothing else left to say. I painted her at the second the words fall: the receiver pressed to her ear, the hand no longer moving, and the gaze drifting elsewhere, to the right, towards something that is not in the picture. The phone box stands upright in the middle of the rain, glazed on every side, like a room someone forgot to close. Her beige trench coat is the only warm thing here; everything else belongs to the street, the saloon at a standstill, the street lamps, the red of the shop signs trailing across the tarmac. I do not know who is on the other end of the line, or whether the voice will come back. What occupies me is that minute: she has not hung up, so it is still possible.”

— Le Yack

A blonde woman in a beige trench coat stands in a glazed telephone box, the black receiver against her ear; her gaze passes beyond the glass, towards the right of the frame. Behind her, a wet street at dusk: a 1950s saloon at a standstill, street lamps lit, ochre windows in grey façades. The car lights and the signs draw red streaks across the tarmac. A 70 × 70 cm square format, one of a kind.

Technique
oil on canvas
Size
70 × 70 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 painted street: the front of a vintage car and the red streaks of its lights reflected on the wet tarmac.
Detail of the painted street: the front of a vintage car and the red streaks of its lights reflected on the wet tarmac.
Detail of the face: the blonde woman holds the black receiver to her ear, her gaze turned outside the phone box.
Detail of the face: the blonde woman holds the black receiver to her ear, her gaze turned outside the phone box.
Detail of the beige trench coat and its round buttons, crossed by the dark uprights of the phone box.
Detail of the beige trench coat and its round buttons, crossed by the dark uprights of the phone box.
The framed canvas above a bar console, between crystal glasses and a rust-coloured armchair, in a living room with dark walls.
The framed canvas above a bar console, between crystal glasses and a rust-coloured armchair, in a living room with dark walls.

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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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