Eblatant was a portrait of this young woman with a large hat that is striking for its interlocking spiral structure ending in the model’s black eyes. Like the bouquet and the portrait, hat and bust respond to each other in a spatial balance that seems to be held together by the female gaze alone.

The charlotte, a hymn to the sun, floods the canvas and makes the blue of the floor, the yellow of the table and the black of the eyes and hair vibrate.

The barely sketched still life highlights the carefully made up eyes of the woman whose averted gaze sends us back to the outside of the canvas like an invitation to the life that follows the posing session.

The model, Michèle Seeberger, is the artist’s second goddaughter, daughter of his childhood friend, Albert Seeberger, descendant of a famous family of French photographers.