Yves Decaudan - La silhouette du soir

Painting depicting the character "The Evening Silhouette" - 2026

An artwork that will bring an original touch to your interior.
A stylized male silhouette, wearing a wide-brimmed hat and a jacket cut in two tones of royal blue and black. It walks away from the viewer or in a three-quarter view, projecting its inverted shadow onto a body of water in the foreground.
A urban landscape evocative of a medina or a Mediterranean village with geometric shapes and facades in ochre, vermilion yellow and red. In the background rises a tower silhouetted against an intense midnight-blue sky.
A body of water or a wet ground that mirrors the dark silhouette and the hues of the city.
The work is aligned with an expressionist and semi-abstract current, heavily influenced by Fauvism in its treatment of color.
The painting rests on a strong complementary contrast between warm yellows, ochre, and red, and the cool cobalt blue and midnight blue. This thermal contrast creates a strong visual impact and a twilight atmosphere.
The structure is very constructed, based on the verticality of the buildings and the horizontal echo of the reflection. The two-tone division of the main character translates a play of light and shadow, reinforcing the mystery of the solemn and solitary passerby.
Painting by the Breton artist Yves Decaudan – 1954
Yves Decaudan's work sits in a colorful figurative vein, greatly influenced by Fauvism and the Pont-Aven school, with a particular attachment to coastal scenes of Brittany. His works regularly depict moments of calm, reading, or daydreaming outdoors, in a maritime or Mediterranean setting where time seems suspended. The artist's work is characterized by expressive and poetic figuration, driven by a keen sense of color and the synthesis of forms. The artist favors flat areas of pure and intense colors, such as deep blue confronted with vibrant red, creating an immediate and luminous visual tension. The elements of the decor are defined and streamlined, going to the essentials without dwelling on anatomical detail or strict realism, which brings his work closer to Fauvism or art poster. His subjects, often solitary and maritime, convey an impression of stillness, serenity or dreamlike suspension in time. Through textured backgrounds or ones dotted with light touches, he establishes a poetic depth rather than a geometric one.
Paintings exhibited in numerous private collections in Europe, North America, Africa and Oceania, canvas exhibited at the Paris Salon d’Automne – 2022
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Acrylic on cotton canvas, wooden frame, unframed, dimensions 80 x 60 cm
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