Young Breton at a table

Oil on canvas, unsigned.

Admittedly, this canvas is unsigned, but what counts here is the emotion it conveys. We chose this canvas for its silent intensity. The artist plunges us into an atmosphere, evokes an emotion, tells us a story without saying a word. This young Breton, sitting alone in a 19th-century cabaret, instantly captures us with his melancholy air. What is he thinking? Is he waiting for someone? Is he absorbed in distant thoughts, dreaming of an elsewhere or meditating on the present? The artist has captured this fleeting moment with unsettling accuracy.

The humanity of the treatment, the touch and the play of light and shadow that give depth to the canvas are strongly reminiscent of the work of Alexandre Antigna.