She Reads to Avoid the World
Private collection
This painting has joined a private collection. A scene in the same spirit can be painted on commission.
“Usually my figures look elsewhere. This one looks up, and that is the whole problem: we do not know whether she saw us coming or is waiting for us to leave. I spent a long time on the glasses. As long as you cannot see the eyes, the book matters more than we do. The book I wanted open and legible. La Promesse de l’aube: a man telling the story of his mother. I wanted what she is reading to be older than her, older than the villa and the pool. The sky turns pink, the water still holds the blue. It is the hour when people go in. Not her. She has found a reason to stay outside, and I am not sure it is the book.”
— Le Yack
A nude woman stands at the edge of a swimming pool, an open book before her. She looks towards us over the pages, behind round white-framed glasses. Behind her: a low flat-roofed villa, a diving board, a sky sliding from blue to pink. The blues of the water hold the canvas together; the red of the nails and lips wakes it up. Signed 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
In the same setting · By the sea
All his works
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.
