A typically Lacazian subject is this composition of two women facing each other in a sunny garden, one reading from behind and the other doing sewing work, painted from the front lying on a chaise longue.

The décor: an Arcachon house with a red roof in the distance and a few dark blue trees, probably pines, on the left structuring the upper part; a shrub with green-blue leaves, perhaps a mimosa, in the foreground occupying the right of the canvas and creating a screen-setting of greenery for the seamstress.

Touches of blue, green, red and especially yellow colours structure the canvas in a personalised way, without any repetition.

Focused on their respective occupations, the two women seem mysteriously united out of time. The beautiful title of this painting, “the mobile shadow”, gives us the key to the enigma: it is the shadow and the light that move around these two women motionless in their bubble that make up the film of this summer afternoon that the artist wanted to compose.