Néo Pablo - Only the Cat Is Awake - Unique work

Neo Pablo exposed at the Salon d’Automne 2026, place de la Concorde in Paris, where his canvas Sovereign was selected by the jury in the Chromatic section of the 123rd edition. The situational visuals are AI-generated renderings from photographs of the real object. Only the photographs of the real object are binding.

A pink and orange salon, a frieze of citrus painted on the wall. In the orange armchair, a woman in a raspberry dress has fallen asleep, head tilted back, gold hoop earring and red lips. A sparrow on the windowsill. On the chair, a Siamese cat has stood up, motionless, and does not take its eyes off him.
La Fontaine wrote The Cat and the Two Sparrows; Neo Pablo offers the Mediterranean version, at naptime. She will know nothing of what is going to happen. The painting rests entirely on this suspense: three characters, three rhythms, a single silence.
Powder pink, orange, burgundy, broad, visible strokes; the bowl of oranges at the corner of the canvas answers the wall frieze. A warm and funny scene, full of sweetness.

Technique mixte: hand-painted acrylic on stamp with pigment ink, varnish applied by hand, for the depth of blacks and the durable protection of the work.
Support: premium canvas stretched on a wooden frame, ready to hang.
Stamped print enhanced with acrylic paint, 40x60 cm edition
Authenticity: Comes with an authenticity certificate signed by the artist.
Shipping: Shipped from France, with secure packaging to ensure delivery in perfect condition.

The Artist: Neo Pablo
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Emergent and instinctive artist, Neo Pablo, 25, pushes the boundaries of free figuration. Trained at Atelier Joconde alongside his father, the neo-realist painter Le Yack, and his brother Medsan, he has made familial heritage a quest for raw freedom: where Le Yack captures the moment, he makes it explode.

In three years, he has asserted a recognizable signature: a nervous line drawing, projections of acrylic and aerosol, intentional splashes, a knife and Posca worked directly on the canvas. His silhouettes are never fixed; they arise from chaos, between Art Brut and energy of gesture. Whatever the register—signs and writing canvases, Mediterranean scenes cut into facets, large formats painted with a brush—the method remains the same: fragment the surface into shards of pure color, and let a figure, a woman at rest, a cat, a fruit, the sea, hold the whole. With Neo Pablo, color does not adorn the subject, it builds it.
In 2026, his canvas Sovereign (120 × 80 cm) was selected by the Salon d’Automne jury in the Chromatic section and exhibited at place de la Concorde in Paris, for the 123rd edition of this historic salon born in 1903 at the Grand Palais.

Exhibitions
Nantes Art3F - March 2026
Monaco Art 3F - September 2026
Luxembourg Art 3F - October 2026
Paris Salon d’Automne - October 2026

About Atelier Joconde
Atelier Joconde is a studio where artists gather around a living, plural contemporary creation. Established as a true production space, the studio operates both in collective creation and in individual approaches, depending on projects and works. Atelier Joconde is also a family venture. Le Yack, a contemporary figurative painter, develops a narrative and introspective body of work with cinematic and realistic influences. By his side, Medsan, oriented toward pop art, explores color, modern iconography, and visual culture. Finally, Neo Pablo partakes in a more instinctive search, blending abstract art, art brut, and figurative abstraction. Each work is conceived, created, and followed within the studio, with a shared artistic standard and an identity of its own for each artist.

Keywords: Neo Pablo / Atelier Joconde / nap, Siamese cat, sparrow, orange chair, Mediterranean interior, oranges, pink and orange, sleeping woman, La Fontaine, figurative painting, French contemporary art