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A woman in a red dress closes her handbag on the forecourt of a petrol station at night; a man waits by a black saloon.

WorksRoads and machines

Safety Distance

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

Private collection

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“The petrol station is the only lit place for miles, and that is where they have chosen not to speak to each other. She is closing her bag, he waits by the car, and between them remain a few steps of tarmac that no one crosses. I spent most of the work on the puddle: the yellow pump is reflected in it upside down, and it is that reflection that gives the measure of the gap. The red of the dress I laid down last. It had to be too bright for that night, like something you keep on you when you are about to leave. A safety distance is what you put between yourself and what you have not yet decided. Does she get into that car? I painted her before I knew.”

— Le Yack

On the lit forecourt of a petrol station, at night, a woman in a red dress is closing her bag; behind her, a man in a dark suit waits by a black saloon parked beneath the green and yellow canopy. The red cuts through midnight blues and asphalt greys; a puddle gives back the reflection of the pump. A 60 × 60 cm square canvas, signed and dated lower right.

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 black saloon and the man in a suit standing beside it, before the lit yellow petrol pump.
Detail of the black saloon and the man in a suit standing beside it, before the lit yellow petrol pump.
Detail of the wet ground: the yellow and green reflection of the pump stretches across the puddle, on canvas with a visible grain.
Detail of the wet ground: the yellow and green reflection of the pump stretches across the puddle, on canvas with a visible grain.
Close-up of the blonde woman in the red dress, rhinestone earrings, closing her black patent handbag.
Close-up of the blonde woman in the red dress, rhinestone earrings, closing her black patent handbag.
The framed canvas above a teak sideboard, blue wall, with a record player, a green plant and a lit lamp.
The framed canvas above a teak sideboard, blue wall, with a record player, a green plant and a lit lamp.

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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.

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