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Big Bang
Jean-Pierre Fleury
Photography - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Photography - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$1,764
Haïtienne – 1.1
Franck Savoye (Francky)
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,272
Haïtienne – 1 .0
Franck Savoye (Francky)
Painting - 120 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$2,120
Iggy Fuck !
Franck Savoye (Francky)
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,555
Cenizas y diamantes XV
Cecilia Méndez Casariego
Painting - 45 x 33 x 0.3 cm Painting - 17.7 x 13 x 0.1 inch
$600
Qu’a-t-on fait
Michèle Magnien (Mileg)
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$848
Untitled landscape (#1)
Freeman Butts
Painting - 61 x 76.2 x 0.3 cm Painting - 24 x 30 x 0.1 inch
$1,400
Figure_2
Agnes von Rogister
Fine Art Drawings - 46 x 33 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 18.1 x 13 x 0.1 inch
$1,606
Typofigures_2
Agnes von Rogister
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 30 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$1,498
Taj Mahal. India
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 60 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,244
Grand Ecran III
Bruno Fournier
Photography - 17 x 31 x 1 cm Photography - 6.7 x 12.2 x 0.4 inch
$961
Autorretrato. Picasso.
José Luis Pagador Ponce
Painting - 81 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$4,659
Inspiración
José Luis Pagador Ponce
Painting - 100 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$5,541
Yoko Ono holding up peace signs, NYC 1972
Bob Gruen
Photography - 61 x 50.8 x 5.1 cm Photography - 24 x 20 x 2 inch
$2,500
Tina Turner, Honka Monka Club, NYC (Diamond Dust)
Bob Gruen
Print - 62.9 x 41.3 x 5.1 cm Print - 24.75 x 16.25 x 2 inch
$4,400
Pete Townshend, NYC 1973
Bob Gruen
Photography - 50.8 x 61 x 5.1 cm Photography - 20 x 24 x 2 inch
$2,500
Mick Jagger and Keith Richards II, MSG, NYC 1972
Bob Gruen
Photography - 50.8 x 61 x 5.1 cm Photography - 20 x 24 x 2 inch
$2,500
Rolling Stones, NYC, 1978
Bob Gruen
Photography - 50.8 x 61 x 5.1 cm Photography - 20 x 24 x 2 inch
$2,500
Yoko Ono and John Lennon in a row boat, Greenwich, CT 1973
Bob Gruen
Photography - 50.8 x 61 x 5.1 cm Photography - 20 x 24 x 2 inch
$3,000
Keith Richards, Baton Rouge, LA 1975
Bob Gruen
Photography - 50.8 x 61 x 5.1 cm Photography - 20 x 24 x 2 inch
$2,500
John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Greenwich, Connecticut, 1973
Bob Gruen
Photography - 50.8 x 61 x 5.1 cm Photography - 20 x 24 x 2 inch
$2,500
John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Jerry Lewis Telethon, NYC, 1972
Bob Gruen
Photography - 50.8 x 61 x 5.1 cm Photography - 20 x 24 x 2 inch
$2,500
David Bowie, NYC 1983
Bob Gruen
Photography - 61 x 50.8 x 5.1 cm Photography - 24 x 20 x 2 inch
$2,500
Abstract winter III
Cédric Bouteiller
Painting - 30 x 30 x 1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
$2,827
Unreal realities
Milena Mladenova
Painting - 50 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,527
Poetic landscape - White on white
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 61 x 61 x 2.5 cm Painting - 24 x 24 x 1 inch
$1,400
Kiss close up, NYC, 1975
Bob Gruen
Photography - 61 x 50.8 x 5.1 cm Photography - 24 x 20 x 2 inch
$2,500
Queen, MSG, NYC 1977
Bob Gruen
Photography - 50.8 x 61 x 5.1 cm Photography - 20 x 24 x 2 inch
$2,500
Pietà
François-Xavier de Boissoudy
Painting - 125 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 49.2 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$5,654
Desert signe LIX (SG250)
Sylvie Guyomard
Sculpture - 50 x 40 x 5 cm Sculpture - 19.7 x 15.7 x 2 inch
$441
Les bas fonds
Clara Delaporte
Photography - 60 x 40 x 2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,131
Madness Returns
Andrew David Grammer
Painting - 25.4 x 20.3 x 2 cm Painting - 10 x 8 x 0.8 inch
$1,278
Cimes et racines / Cephalanthra
Akira Inumaru
Painting - 180 x 180 x 2 cm Painting - 70.9 x 70.9 x 0.8 inch
$7,012
Prends-moi dans tes bras
Chantal Proulx
Painting - 61 x 61 x 4 cm Painting - 24 x 24 x 1.6 inch
$825
Desert Signe XXXV (SG222)
Sylvie Guyomard
Sculpture - 50 x 40 x 3 cm Sculpture - 19.7 x 15.7 x 1.2 inch
$554
Dune de sel
Lionel le Jeune
Photography - 70 x 105 x 0.5 cm Photography - 27.6 x 41.3 x 0.2 inch
$961
Black & white soul I
Cecile Filipe
Painting - 44 x 34 x 2 cm Painting - 17.3 x 13.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,131
Charlie Brown | Childhood collection
Arnaud Puig aka ARDPG
Sculpture - 50 x 38 x 1.8 cm Sculpture - 19.7 x 15 x 0.7 inch
$1,201
Contemporary portrait "Inside the Painting"
Nataliya Bagatskaya
Painting - 90 x 60 x 1.8 cm Painting - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.7 inch
$2,262
Two visitors (Bowie series)
Carrie Graber
Painting - 49.3 x 71.1 x 3.8 cm Painting - 19.4 x 28 x 1.5 inch
$4,975
Silver of winter
Alisa Onipchenko-Cherniakovska
Painting - 100.1 x 130 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 51.2 x 1 inch
$3,600
Don’t drop your fears on me
Alma Pieces
Painting - 70 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$1,573
Passing with a smile
Lars Fredriksson
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,455
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!