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The Veiled Vestal Virgin Handmade Sculpture for Home Decor
Dervis Akdemir
Sculpture - 43 x 26 x 15 cm Sculpture - 16.9 x 10.2 x 5.9 inch
$288
L'empire des sens
Gérard Pamboujian
Painting - 60 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
$5,023
Dyptique 1
Michel Castanet (Mica)
Painting - 116 x 178 x 3 cm Painting - 45.7 x 70.1 x 1.2 inch
$6,541
Canvas 180
Frantisek Florian
Painting - 122.9 x 149.9 x 3.8 cm Painting - 48.4 x 59 x 1.5 inch
$2,392
Stormy Sea 2022.2
Christine Keruth
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.8 inch
$8,106
Mystic in the same place
a Ee
Fine Art Drawings - 21.4 x 14.7 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.4 x 5.8 x 0.4 inch
$5,706
Electric shock experience -black- (4)
AyaNe AyaNe
Print - 119 x 58.4 x 3.2 cm Print - 46.9 x 23 x 1.3 inch
$6,586
Throughout eternity
Nemanja Nikolic
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 2 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.78 inch
$1,340
Safe Harbor
Bernadette Youngquist
Painting - 91 x 91 x 4 cm Painting - 35.8 x 35.8 x 1.6 inch
$6,140
She is delightfully chaotic
Marisol Evora
Painting - 60 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
$8,431
See to the Sea
Rina Murao
Sculpture - 115 x 405 x 170 cm Sculpture - 45.3 x 159.4 x 66.9 inch
$42,666
The Sea at Dawn
Rina Murao
Sculpture - 150 x 253 x 253 cm Sculpture - 59.1 x 99.6 x 99.6 inch
$67,829
La lucidité est la blessure la plus rapprochée du soleil René Char
Geoffrey Callènes
Painting - 65 x 54 x 0.5 cm Painting - 25.6 x 21.3 x 0.2 inch
$1,786
Machines sensationnelles
Sandra Paris
Fine Art Drawings - 28.5 x 21 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.2 x 8.3 x 0.1 inch
$200
Rare ‘fragments collection’
Sandra Szaja
Painting - 100 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
$16,186
Golden desert of Dubai
Sandra Szaja
Painting - 130 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$10,046
Le pylône - série paysage rural
Anne-Marie Renno
Painting - 64 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 25.2 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$541
Sans titre
Menachem Gueffen
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 28 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11 x 0.4 inch
$871
Sans titre
Menachem Gueffen
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 28 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11 x 0.4 inch
$871
Sans titre
Menachem Gueffen
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 28 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11 x 0.4 inch
$647
Sans titre
Menachem Gueffen
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 28 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11 x 0.4 inch
$871
Les Waka Starz, Wakaliga, Ouganda
Frédéric Noy
Photography - 40 x 50 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$726
Sans titre
Menachem Gueffen
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 28 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11 x 0.4 inch
$871
Sans titre
Menachem Gueffen
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 28 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11 x 0.4 inch
$647
Trees and church (Bavaria)
Christophe Jacrot
Photography - 70 x 105 x 0.1 cm Photography - 27.6 x 41.3 x 0 inch
$3,572
Sensations (Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, The Beatles & Barbara Streisand)
Al Hirschfeld
Print - 58.42 x 53.34 x 2.54 cm Print - 23 x 21 x 1 inch
$600
Neige d'autonome no 2 diptych
Charles Carson
Painting - 152.4 x 61 x 5.1 cm Painting - 60 x 24 x 2 inch
$22,400
Pureza
Jose Manuel Merello
Fine Art Drawings - 21.5 x 13.5 x 0.01 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.5 x 5.3 x 0 inch
$558
Girl with animals
Jose Manuel Merello
Fine Art Drawings - 21.5 x 13.5 x 0.01 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.5 x 5.3 x 0 inch
$558
Marlow. Buckinghamshire
Simon Kozhin
Painting - 25 x 35 x 0.3 cm Painting - 9.8 x 13.8 x 0.1 inch
$3,349
Sans titre
Mathilde Anclin
Fine Art Drawings - 29.5 x 42 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.6 x 16.5 inch
$804
Gray day. Izmailovsky park
Simon Kozhin
Painting - 13 x 24 x 0.3 cm Painting - 5.1 x 9.4 x 0.1 inch
$2,679
Boulevard in winter. Old Maryino
Simon Kozhin
Painting - 25 x 35 x 0.3 cm Painting - 9.8 x 13.8 x 0.1 inch
$3,572
Expressionist selfie (1)
Adrien Conrad
Painting - 41 x 33 x 2 cm Painting - 16.1 x 13 x 0.8 inch
$781
Expressionist selfie III
Adrien Conrad
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,953
Oxford
Simon Kozhin
Fine Art Drawings - 21.6 x 30.6 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.5 x 12 x 0 inch
$2,500
Shiny landscape A
Ximena Giraudi
Painting - 135 x 160 x 2 cm Painting - 53.1 x 63 x 0.8 inch
$10,650
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
$167
Territory over land
Jessica Houston
Photography - 35.6 x 50.8 x 2.5 cm Photography - 14 x 20 x 1 inch
$2,121
Geological markers
Jessica Houston
Photography - 35.6 x 50.8 x 2.5 cm Photography - 14 x 20 x 1 inch
$2,121
Drawing in water
Jessica Houston
Fine Art Drawings - 25.4 x 35.6 x 2.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10 x 14 x 1 inch
$1,563
The nine of us worked things out amongst us from the beginning to end without any orders being given by anybody.
Jessica Houston
Painting - 22.9 x 30.5 x 5.1 cm Painting - 9 x 12 x 2 inch
$2,009
The steam from our own small funnel faded blue on the twilit water as we crept along under the towering pale wall of ice.
Jessica Houston
Painting - 22.9 x 30.5 x 5.1 cm Painting - 9 x 12 x 2 inch
$2,009
…last Thule of the South, which lies on our maps and globes like a white cloud, a void, fringed here and there with scraps of coastline, dubious capes, suppositious islands, headlands that may or may not be there: Antarctica
Jessica Houston
Painting - 22.9 x 30.5 x 5.1 cm Painting - 9 x 12 x 2 inch
$2,009
A summary report of the yelcho expedition to the antarctic, 1909-1910.
Jessica Houston
Painting - 22.9 x 30.5 x 5.1 cm Painting - 9 x 12 x 2 inch
$2,009
Exposed as our camp was to every wind, we built no rigid structures above ground. We set up tents to shelter in while we dug a series of cubicles in the ice itself.
Jessica Houston
Painting - 22.9 x 30.5 x 5.1 cm Painting - 9 x 12 x 2 inch
$2,009
Backstage XI
Sven Pfrommer
Photography - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$2,110
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!