Very beautiful canvas in width of two women sitting in a garden under a very leafy fig tree: the first one in the centre, blonde, Michèle, on a chaise longue with the artist’s red cat Norange on her lap, looks at us ; the second one, brunette, Dominique, concentrated, reads with her arms crossed, in front of a round table, where a small still life is shown.

Opposition of pictorial treatment between Michèle, her legs visible, in full central diagonal, her face in the sun, haloed by a pink cushion, turned to the left, in a rectilinear environment, and Dominique, her head lowered in the shadow on the right side of the canvas in a curved environment.

A pictorial sonata of a feminine duet as main performers where the music of warm and cold tones, the play of shadows and lights, the melodic line of the four hands between nature and reading, celebrate all the sensuality and the poetic strength of a simple afternoon in a sunny garden.

The model, Michèle Séeberger, is the artist’s second goddaughter, the daughter of Cécile and Albert Séeberger, her childhood friend and descendant of a famous family of French photographers.