Jone Hopper - Belle à la colombe

Born in 1977, Jone Hopper is a French artist. In the late 1980s, he learned his craft on the streets through an emerging movement of the time: graffiti. He tags his name on the streets, on walls and on trains. Known for his characters and aerosol signatures, he founded the TBS collective (The Brutal Style) with Skepa and a few other committed graffiti writers. We know little about him since the artist stays true to the spirit of graffiti and desires to remain anonymous, believing that it is the work that should be highlighted, not the person. Nonexistent on social networks, absent from openings, a faceless artist, he remains a real mystery except for a few gallery owners in the know. He compares his painting to a piece of Hip Hop, borrowing from Basquiat, Keith Haring, Picasso, Matisse, Andy Warhol or even Bacon, drawing from all painting currents, from Modern to Contemporary and including Classical; he acts like a sampler—samples, cuts, assembles, and thus creates new images.

- Mixed media: aerosol, pastel and acrylic on canvas
- With certificate of authenticity