SACHA LYS - Too Short for the Moon

SACHA LYS, Mixed media, Acrylic painting · Digital painting · Hand-signed · 2026

They stand before a tiny house, white as a candle, topped with a burgundy roof and a crescent planted at the summit of its spire. She wears a short ballgown, a puffed skirt of ochre and teal damask speckled with scrollwork; ankles cinched, burgundy-strap high heels. Her left hand grasps the frame of a brass ladder leaning against the facade, and her elongated face turns toward us: porcelain skin, coral lips, heavy eyelids. He towers over her by a head. A honey-scale brocade jacket, plaid trousers, burgundy stockings, teal cravat tied high, a crimson conical hat perched like a fairytale headpiece. His gaze drifts beyond the frame, elsewhere. Behind them, a night sky brushed in broad swaths of blue and gray, two bare trees scratching the edges, an oculus and a semicircular window where no light awakens. In the bottom right, the white monogram of the studio. The work celebrates the suspended moment of a departure not taken: tenderness kept at a distance, childhood worn like a costume. Its lineage is legible — the mask-like face of Modigliani, the Vienna Secession ornament and Klimt, Nordic symbolism and magical realism.

Technique mixte : acrylic painting on pigment-ink print, matte varnish spray.
Highlights and varnish applied by hand, for the depth of the materials and the durable protection of the piece.
Support: premium canvas stretched on a wooden frame, ready to hang.
Format: 60 x 40 cm.
Signed SACHA LYS · Galerie Labo Joconde / Atelier Joconde · certificate of authenticity provided.

SACHA LYS is one of the works by artists Le Yack, Neo Pablo and Popsan brought together at Atelier Joconde, a family studio where three sensibilities coexist: neo-realism, pop, and free figuration. SACHA LYS explores the intimate portrait of cosmopolitan Europe in the early 20th century — Paris, Vienna, Saint Petersburg — at the crossroads of Modigliani’s masked face and Klimt’s ornamental decor, in a subdued palette of night blue, teal, ochre, and whites of muslin.

The collection gathers elongated faces with porcelain skin, coral lips, heavy eyelids and gazes that drift outside the frame; around them, brocades and scrolls, ball gowns, plaid costumes, fairy-tale houses, brass ladders, crescent moons, and bare trees against brushed skies. The through-line: a melancholic elegance inherited from the Vienna Secession and symbolism, brought back by contemporary materials — pigment-printed etching enhanced by hand — to the softness of a contemporary portrait.

Each work is a unique piece.
Instagram @atelierjoconde.

Keywords: SACHA LYS, Galerie Labo Joconde, Atelier Joconde, portrait, elongated face, couple, fairy-tale house, crescent moon, brass ladder, brocade, ball gown, conical hat, night blue, teal, ochre, bare trees, Modigliani, Vienna Secession, magical realism