The Silent Guest
Private collection
This painting has joined a private collection. A scene in the same spirit can be painted on commission.
“The macaw looks at the man, the man looks at us: neither of them speaks, and that is more or less all that happens. He stands facing us, hands in his pockets, a fir-green jacket over a white shirt and bow tie, dressed with care for an occasion no one has explained to him. Behind him, a pink wall and roses in a pale frame, a setting a little too arranged, like a drawing room someone has lent him. The bird, for its part, asked for nothing. It landed there, blue and yellow amid all that calm, and turned its head towards his shoulder. I still do not know which of the two is the guest. The watch on his wrist is the only thing that says it is today; everything else might have been waiting for a long time.”
— Le Yack
Le Yack places his sitter face on, motionless, in a powder-pink interior where a painting of roses stands in for a window. The fir green of the jacket and the ochre of the trousers set the palette; the blue and yellow of the macaw open its only vivid breach. A 60 × 60 cm square format, where two gazes share the space without ever meeting.
- 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
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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.
