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Still Life with Decanter
Yuriy Demiyanov
Painting - 60 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
€3,500
Tangerines and Candy
Yuriy Demiyanov
Painting - 50 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
€2,400
Warhol mania
Cédric Bouteiller
Painting - 150 x 100 x 1 cm Painting - 59.1 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
€13,000
Head of a woman
Badriot
Fine Art Drawings - 29 x 21 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.4 x 8.3 x 0.4 inch
€500
Signes de désorientations (série)
Patrick Beaulieu
Photography - 27.9 x 35.6 x 0.3 cm Photography - 11 x 14 x 0.1 inch
€1,400
Freedom People ,,Acrobats``
Eka Peradze
Painting - 75 x 115 x 2 cm Painting - 29.5 x 45.3 x 0.8 inch
€2,890
Neocubistic Study II
Alexander Valchev
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 20 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 7.9 x 0.1 inch
€320
The space between - Magenta V1
Sophie Derrick
Painting - 150 x 100 x 5 cm Painting - 59.1 x 39.4 x 2 inch
€8,006
Laid Bare – Nude + Gold #10
Sophie Derrick
Painting - 150 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 59.1 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
€8,006
Incontro Musicale
Tiziano Sculpteur
Sculpture - 215 x 70 x 30 cm Sculpture - 84.6 x 27.6 x 11.8 inch
€19,000
Disposición lineal
Borja Barrajón
Sculpture - 21 x 24 x 20 cm Sculpture - 8.3 x 9.4 x 7.9 inch
€3,875
Tag 6
Darryl McCray (Cornbread)
Fine Art Drawings - 14 x 11 x 2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 5.5 x 4.3 x 0.8 inch
€150
La lettre oubliée
Erick Ifergan
Painting - 195 x 97 x 3 cm Painting - 76.8 x 38.2 x 1.2 inch
€25,000
Aprop dels teus silencis
Joanpere Massana
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
€3,350
Blanche et Narcès
Sophie Manaches
Painting - 65 x 50 x 0.3 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
€750
Etude de la place
Eugenia Jaeger
Fine Art Drawings - 42 x 59 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 23.2 inch
€700
I Brought You the Blessing of Love
Delyafruz Bagirova
Painting - 75 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 29.5 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€2,100
Kiliney Beach - Ireland
Marko Fenske
Painting - 38.1 x 48.3 x 0.5 cm Painting - 15 x 19 x 0.2 inch
€890
Dos au mur - série Street Art
Henri Mahé dit HIM
Painting - 100 x 81 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 1.2 inch
€2,875
Fous de Bassan dans les vagues
Hélène Legrand
Painting - 92 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 36.2 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
€4,000
Soleil et voiles, sur le pont
Hélène Legrand
Painting - 46 x 61 x 2 cm Painting - 18.1 x 24 x 0.8 inch
€2,300
Napoleon Bonaparte was in burning Moscow. 1812
Simon Kozhin
Painting - 68 x 104 x 2 cm Painting - 26.8 x 40.9 x 0.8 inch
€20,325
Still life with plainair
Simon Kozhin
Painting - 75 x 87.5 x 2 cm Painting - 29.5 x 34.4 x 0.8 inch
€9,195
Tre cavalli in corsa
Gianfranco Migliozzi
Painting - 100 x 120 x 15 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 5.9 inch
€2,500
Vintage roller
Franck Savoye (Francky)
Painting - 60 x 25 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 9.8 x 0.8 inch
€450
Motives Of Abkhazia
Tako Chanchaleishvili
Fine Art Drawings - 26 x 35 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10.2 x 13.8 x 0 inch
€550
Taking pictures/ Their life-Cameroon
Gilbert Ryu
Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0 inch
€750
Reserved/Their life-Cameroon
Gilbert Ryu
Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0 inch
€750
El ladrón de manzanas
Iñigo Navarro
Painting - 46 x 38 x 2 cm Painting - 18.1 x 15 x 0.8 inch
€1,500
Nous ne sommes pas les derniers 203
Zoran Music
Print - 26.5 x 23.5 cm Print - 10.4 x 9.3 inch
€3,000
Balance Series #9
Lana Matsuyama
Sculpture - 60 x 35 x 30 cm Sculpture - 23.6 x 13.8 x 11.8 inch
€6,159
White
In physics, white is the sum of all the colours. To the human eye, white appears to be the total absence of colour. Amongst artists, white and its many uses in art are continuously evolving and challenging those who would embrace them. Is white, then, a non-colour, or an enhancer of colours? Intangible or material? Absence or excess?
Since Antiquity, white has been appreciated for its symbolic value. In Ancient Greece, where they would paint their statues, it was a sign of incompletion, whereas the Romans believed it showed pomp and imperialist virtue. With the rise of Christianity, white was used in opposition to black in order to emphasise moral dichotomies: the pure, divine white against the darkness. In some cases, however, white was used to show sickness or death, most notably in the pallid representations of the skeletal, crucified Christ.
In the Renaissance white was used to sublimate faces and backgrounds. Da Vinci even based his sfumato technique on the soft transition from light into darkness. Throughout the history of painting, white was considered precious for its ability to reflect light. It attracts the gaze even when used in the tiniest quantities, and illuminates the subject, drawing out stunning contrasts as seen in the works of Rembrandt, or in Vermeer's famous Girl with the Pearl Earring.
With the rise of Impressionism, white was used as the brightest tone amongst shades of grey. While Manet produced canvases which were forerunners to monochromes, including The Reader, which was almost pure white, Monet delivered a stunning gradient of whites whilst recreating the snow at his home in Giverny. The first true white monochrome appeared with the arrival of Malevitch's White Square on a White Background. The artist said 'I have broken the blue boundary of colour limits, and come out into the white'.
Modernists were equally passionate about white and valued it incredibly highly. Miro in particular questioned the status of white on canvases. In his painting Woman, Bird and Star white is in parts boldly painted, but is also distinctive for its absence around the star. Picasso, on the other hand, explored white in conjunction with his famous coloured periods. Piero Manzoni became famous thanks to his 'achromatic' paintings, a series of canvases produced exclusively in shades of white. Moving into the 20th century, white became synonymous with minimalist abstraction. For artists like Kandinsky, white was a cosmic colour, associated with a spiritual search for the absolute, guiding the artists as he seek to express his emotions.
Today, white remains an ever popular subject. Roman Opalka made his name creating a series of white numbers of a white background, while Daniel Arsham reinvents white walls in galleries by letting his artwork drip down onto them. White is a colour with multiple symbolic interpretations. The colour of divinity or humility; of purity and immaculate, of emptiness and absence, but always colour. If blue has Klein and red has Rothko, it appears that no artist has yet succeeded in fully mastering white – but maybe you'll find them in our selection!