CREATION OF A NEW ART FORM

I, Billy Cone, created the Half&Half years ago. It was an idea that came to me through an album cover of the band Ah-Ha! And boy was that an Ah Ha moment!!!

Put the left half of a black and white portrait of a celebrity on archival paper and draw the right side of the face with black markers and Voila! And that was the origin of a Half&Half. One of my first ones was the Mona Lisa. Then it evolved into many great personalities who are or were very famous.

Then I did Jimmy Buffet’s Half&Half. I named it “Salvator Mundi” after the the Salvator Mundi portrait of Christ by Leonardo Da Vinci which is the most expensive painting ever sold at auction. It sold for $450.3 million dollars to a Saudi Arabian Prince named Prince Badr bin Abdullah on November 15, 2017. But, get this. It’s whereabouts is unknown to this day. It is a mystery! Some think it should be on view in a museum for all the world to see; however, it is believed that this masterpiece is in storage in Switzerland. Billy has “Salvator Mundi” on display at the Cameron Art Museum in Wilmington, North Carolina right now in State of the Art—Art of the State until September. Go check it out!!!