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Paris, élégance à l'Opera
Olivia Bonnamour
Photography - 30 x 45 cm Photography - 11.8 x 17.7 inch
$509
Tokyo crossing VI
Sven Pfrommer
Photography - 150 x 75 x 3 cm Photography - 59.1 x 29.5 x 1.2 inch
$3,381
Tokyo crossing IV
Sven Pfrommer
Photography - 150 x 75 x 3 cm Photography - 59.1 x 29.5 x 1.2 inch
$3,381
Tokyo Crossing II
Sven Pfrommer
Photography - 75 x 150 x 3 cm Photography - 29.5 x 59.1 x 1.2 inch
$3,381
Antique trophy & three books
Christopher Stott
Painting - 38.1 x 38.1 x 3.81 cm Painting - 15 x 15 x 1.5 inch
$3,410
Architecture II
Chiara Indelicato
Photography - 102 x 152 x 0.5 cm Photography - 40.2 x 59.8 x 0.2 inch
$2,940
4-Tour de France 2022, 13ème étape Bourg d'Oisan-Saint-Etienne. La côte de Saint Romain en Gal.
Jérémy Lempin
Photography - 30 x 40 cm Photography - 11.8 x 15.7 inch
$339
La multitude déchue (dessin n° 14 A)
Peter Gnass
Fine Art Drawings - 101.1 x 66 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 39.8 x 26 x 0.1 inch
$6,333
La mort de Desdémone
Jean-Jacques Venturini
Painting - 89 x 116 x 4 cm Painting - 35 x 45.7 x 1.6 inch
$1,470
LE CARRÉ VICTORIA (blanc)
Steddy John
Sculpture - 25 x 25 x 6 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 9.8 x 2.4 inch
$170
Carole Bouquet - Versailles 2023
Jacques Witt
Photography - 30 x 20 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 7.9 x 0 inch
$339
Les chiens
Olivier Tenedor
Fine Art Drawings - 60 x 42 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 23.6 x 16.5 x 0.4 inch
$283
Les chats
Olivier Tenedor
Fine Art Drawings - 60 x 42 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 23.6 x 16.5 x 0.4 inch
$283
Écharpe noire et blanche 243 ref BDNW11909
Atelier Vionnet
Fine Art Drawings - 27 x 21 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10.6 x 8.3 inch
$362
Sailboat in the ice...
Rob van Assen
Painting - 30 x 40 x 1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
$2,771
Paris Tour Eiffel - Shoulder sitting
Hégémon (Hedge) Chaignon
Photography - 70 x 70 x 0.1 cm Photography - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$1,357
Gwada #7 - Les Saintes
Hégémon (Hedge) Chaignon
Photography - 50 x 70 cm Photography - 19.7 x 27.6 inch
$961
Gwada #6 - L'arrivée
Hégémon (Hedge) Chaignon
Photography - 50 x 70 cm Photography - 19.7 x 27.6 inch
$961
Poseïdon (Till human voices wakes us)
Kramer O'Neill
Photography - 30 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$509
Gwada Tête Rouge #5 "Lovers"
Hégémon (Hedge) Chaignon
Photography - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$961
Gwada Débarcadère #4 Spending time
Hégémon (Hedge) Chaignon
Photography - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$961
Gwada Debarcadére #1 Le Port
Hégémon (Hedge) Chaignon
Photography - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$961
Sibouten
Dimitris Pavlopoulos
Painting - 100 x 100 x 1.8 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.7 inch
$2,262
Naomie Campbell catwalk
Michael Roberts
Fine Art Drawings - 64 x 46 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.2 x 18.1 x 0.2 inch
$509
Communion à l’école Saint-Bruno avec la soeur Marie Germain
Didier Bizet
Photography - 30 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$509
Community Snapshot
Lauren Naomi
Painting - 101.6 x 101.6 x 19 cm Painting - 40 x 40 x 7.5 inch
$9,443
Reference Woman #2
Guillaume Piot
Fine Art Drawings - 45 x 33 cm Fine Art Drawings - 17.7 x 13 inch
$905
Reference Woman #1
Guillaume Piot
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 40 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 15.7 inch
$905
Le petit chien lumineux - Snoopy
Âme Sauvage
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$215
Hommage à Jean Renoir
Gérard Pamboujian
Painting - 73 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$4,297
Le tigre blanc - Exposition 2023
Lionel le Jeune
Photography - 61 x 80 x 0.5 cm Photography - 24 x 31.5 x 0.2 inch
$792
Le Camargue - Exposition
Lionel le Jeune
Photography - 77 x 60 x 0.5 cm Photography - 30.3 x 23.6 x 0.2 inch
$792
Bunnies and guns #6 (Bunnies, Bubbles and Guns)
Amy Nelder
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 3.8 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 1.5 inch
$6,000
Trouville, le balcon - ref BDNW11481
Janie Michels
Painting - 100 x 73 x 1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 28.7 x 0.4 inch
$4,467
Benoît le chanceux
Guillaume Piot
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 65 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 25.6 inch
$1,696
Bonjour Tristesse
Guillaume Piot
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 inch
$1,696
En campagne
Guillaume Piot
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 65 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 25.6 inch
$1,696
Aux Innocents les mains pleines.
Guillaume Piot
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 65 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 25.6 inch
$1,696
GB Constructure 19’99
Gaël Bourmaud
Painting - 77 x 77 x 2 cm Painting - 30.3 x 30.3 x 0.8 inch
$4,524
Le box à kava
Foucaud Stéphane
Painting - 106 x 105.5 x 4 cm Painting - 41.7 x 41.5 x 1.6 inch
$2,356
La Montagne Imaginaire
Jérome Obiols
Photography - 70 x 186 x 0.1 cm Photography - 27.6 x 73.2 x 0 inch
$3,958
La Guerre des Mondes
Jérome Obiols
Photography - 80 x 114 x 0.1 cm Photography - 31.5 x 44.9 x 0 inch
$3,449
Tipis (Piezography)
Lionel le Jeune
Photography - 60 x 85 x 0.5 cm Photography - 23.6 x 33.5 x 0.2 inch
$1,131
Reservoir (Piezography)
Lionel le Jeune
Photography - 50 x 70 x 0.5 cm Photography - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.2 inch
$622
La sieste interrompue
Lionel le Jeune
Painting - 65 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
$622
Los Albaricoques
Lionel le Jeune
Photography - 50 x 75 x 0.5 cm Photography - 19.7 x 29.5 x 0.2 inch
$848
Amour, gloire & ecstasy. Edition signed. 5
JP Malot
Print - 59 x 42 x 1 cm Print - 23.2 x 16.5 x 0.4 inch
$123
Portrait de Surma N°2
Catherine Clare
Painting - 46 x 38 x 2 cm Painting - 18.1 x 15 x 0.8 inch
$1,357 $1,086
Paris Montparnasse
Eliane Diverly
Painting - 23.4 x 18.5 x 0.2 cm Painting - 9.2 x 7.3 x 0.1 inch
$226
Blue woman mountain top
Yahaira Cohinta Vannucchi
Painting - 60 x 91 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 35.8 x 1.2 inch
$17,868
Iniciación
Jordi Valls Capell
Photography - 100 x 150 x 1 cm Photography - 39.4 x 59.1 x 0.4 inch
$8,838
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!