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Les voiliers de Saint-Tropez…
Olivier Messas
Painting - 140 x 140 x 2 cm Painting - 55.1 x 55.1 x 0.8 inch
$15,628
Alexander McQueen
Jean-Michel Lourenço
Painting - 100 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
$1,340
Les voiliers de Croatie... (Esprit voile 2021)
Olivier Messas
Painting - 150 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$6,140
Etude pour Asphodèles n°1
Gaël Darras
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 40 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 15.7 inch
$402
Etude pour Asphodèles n°5
Gaël Darras
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 40 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 15.7 inch
$402
Etude pour Asphodèles n°3
Gaël Darras
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 40 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 15.7 inch
$402
La Montagne Imaginaire
Jérome Obiols
Photography - 70 x 186 x 0.1 cm Photography - 27.6 x 73.2 x 0 inch
$3,907
La Guerre des Mondes
Jérome Obiols
Photography - 80 x 114 x 0.1 cm Photography - 31.5 x 44.9 x 0 inch
$3,405
Portrait de Surma N°2
Catherine Clare
Painting - 46 x 38 x 2 cm Painting - 18.1 x 15 x 0.8 inch
$1,340
Movement of the moon
Nataliia Salamatova
Painting - 40 x 30 x 3 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 1.2 inch
$7,256
Le petit chien lumineux - Snoopy
Âme Sauvage
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$212
Arbre
Lionel le Jeune
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 29.7 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 11.7 x 0.1 inch
$56
Eau de vie - Plumes naturelles
Plum
Sculpture - 100 x 70 x 3 cm Sculpture - 39.4 x 27.6 x 1.2 inch
$10,716
Régate au loin... (Esprit Voile)
Olivier Messas
Painting - 20 x 20 x 2 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.8 inch
$447
Crush - Tribute to Keith Haring
Plum
Print - 120 x 120 x 3 cm Print - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$13,953
Cherry blossom in spring
Dmytro Bilous
Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$167
The city Innsbruck, architecture, Austria
Dmytro Bilous
Photography - 40 x 50 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$112
Windows in a house
Dmytro Bilous
Photography - 60 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$167
Urban wallpaper 6
Bruno Fontana
Photography - 80 x 120 x 0.1 cm Photography - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0 inch
$2,679
Urban wallpaper 9
Bruno Fontana
Photography - 80 x 120 x 0.1 cm Photography - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0 inch
$2,679
Packard eight
Samantha Roux
Photography - 120 x 80 x 2 cm Photography - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,679
Black and white IV
Margret Trimborn
Painting - 60 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
$2,009
Black and white I
Margret Trimborn
Painting - 60 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
$2,009
Narcisse aime les filtres
Mr Popart
Painting - 164 x 84.5 x 2.5 cm Painting - 64.6 x 33.3 x 1 inch
$2,456
La multitude déchue (dessin n° 31)
Peter Gnass
Fine Art Drawings - 66 x 101.1 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 26 x 39.8 x 0.1 inch
$6,251
La multitude déchue (dessin n° 30)
Peter Gnass
Fine Art Drawings - 66 x 101.1 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 26 x 39.8 x 0.1 inch
$6,251
La multitude déchue (dessin n° 29)
Peter Gnass
Fine Art Drawings - 66 x 101.1 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 26 x 39.8 x 0.1 inch
$6,251
La multitude déchue (dessin n° 28)
Peter Gnass
Fine Art Drawings - 66 x 101.1 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 26 x 39.8 x 0.1 inch
$6,251
La multitude déchue (dessin n° 26)
Peter Gnass
Fine Art Drawings - 66 x 101.1 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 26 x 39.8 x 0.1 inch
$6,251
La multitude déchue (dessin n° 25)
Peter Gnass
Fine Art Drawings - 66 x 101.1 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 26 x 39.8 x 0.1 inch
$6,251
La multitude déchue (dessin n° 24)
Peter Gnass
Fine Art Drawings - 66 x 101.1 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 26 x 39.8 x 0.1 inch
$6,251
La multitude déchue (dessin n° 23)
Peter Gnass
Fine Art Drawings - 66 x 101.1 x 1.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 26 x 39.8 x 0.5 inch
$6,251
La multitude déchue (dessin n° 22)
Peter Gnass
Fine Art Drawings - 101.1 x 66 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 39.8 x 26 x 0.1 inch
$6,251
La multitude déchue (dessin n° 21)
Peter Gnass
Fine Art Drawings - 101.1 x 66 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 39.8 x 26 x 0.1 inch
$6,251
La multitude déchue (dessin n° 20)
Peter Gnass
Fine Art Drawings - 66 x 101.1 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 26 x 39.8 x 0.1 inch
$6,251
La multitude déchue (dessin n° 18)
Peter Gnass
Fine Art Drawings - 101.1 x 66 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 39.8 x 26 x 0.1 inch
$6,251
La multitude déchue (dessin n° 1)
Peter Gnass
Fine Art Drawings - 66 x 101.1 x 1.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 26 x 39.8 x 0.5 inch
$6,251
Vierge en scorpion
Laurent Anastay-Ponsolle
Fine Art Drawings - 160 x 210 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 63 x 82.7 x 0 inch
$4,186
Les êtres du dessous
Laurent Anastay-Ponsolle
Fine Art Drawings - 110 x 210 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 43.3 x 82.7 x 0 inch
$4,186
Creepy snoop baseball
Coté Escrivà
Painting - 120 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$8,930
Creepy snoop baseball
Coté Escrivà
Painting - 180 x 240 x 2 cm Painting - 70.9 x 94.5 x 0.8 inch
$44,651
High rise
Mathieu Fournier
Photography - 41 x 53.5 x 0.3 cm Photography - 16.1 x 21.1 x 0.1 inch
$307
Ohne Titel - untiled (2)
Gabriel Sommer
Painting - 29 x 20 x 1 cm Painting - 11.4 x 7.9 x 0.4 inch
$279
Juste avant l'église, série Les mariées de Pigalle
Lili Ruby Chomat
Photography - 42 x 29.7 x 0.1 cm Photography - 16.5 x 11.7 x 0 inch
$167
11-Tour de France 2022 16ème étapes Carcassonne - Foix. Village de Chalabre.
Jérémy Lempin
Photography - 40 x 50 cm Photography - 15.7 x 19.7 inch
$447
Simone Veil.le
Mr Popart
Fine Art Drawings - 6.5 x 15 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 2.6 x 5.9 x 0 inch
$134
Engine with blue flowers
Clint Neufeld
Sculpture - 63.5 x 66 x 45.7 cm Sculpture - 25 x 26 x 18 inch
$17,860
Strawberries on the plate
Ekaterina Gasmi
Painting - 110 x 110 x 3 cm Painting - 43.3 x 43.3 x 1.2 inch
$8,707
Don’t Do It
Michael Grine
Fine Art Drawings - 45.7 x 61 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 18 x 24 x 0.1 inch
$300
Walk the Dog
Michael Grine
Fine Art Drawings - 45.7 x 61 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 18 x 24 x 0.1 inch
$300
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!