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![Photography, Chamber play #25, Claus Stolz](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1171137_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Gesture, Robert van Bolderick](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1142598_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, GER, Robert van Bolderick](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1140210_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Diego Silvetti. La México, CDMX., Andrés Calamaro](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1118181_1_grid.jpg)
Diego Silvetti. La México, CDMX.
Andrés Calamaro
Photography - 40 x 60 x 2 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$8,776
![Painting, Unpredictable past - Paesaggio Poetico, Daniela Pasqualini](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1116126_1_grid.jpg)
Unpredictable past - Paesaggio Poetico
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$2,500
![Painting, Still life for bird temple #8, Mark Gaskin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1097241_1_grid.jpg)
Still life for bird temple #8
Mark Gaskin
Painting - 53.3 x 61 x 5.1 cm Painting - 21 x 24 x 2 inch
$4,000
![Painting, Les deux danseurs marins en voile lumière, Caroline Degroiselle](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/890673_1_grid.jpg)
Les deux danseurs marins en voile lumière
Caroline Degroiselle
Painting - 100 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
$2,817
![Sculpture, Colors Head Caps I, TieRi Trademark](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/692448_1_grid.jpg)
Colors Head Caps I
TieRi Trademark
Sculpture - 27 x 27 x 2 cm Sculpture - 10.6 x 10.6 x 0.8 inch
$168
![Photography, Série : Se faire passer pour Mao, Nathalie Daoust](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/463249_1_grid.jpg)
Série : Se faire passer pour Mao
Nathalie Daoust
Photography - 60 x 90 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 inch
$2,795
![Print, Sans titre, Wolfgang Gäfgen](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/369270_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Pigeons, Agnieszka Zawal](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2187078_1_grid.jpg)
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![Painting, Untitled, Santiago Torriglia](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2179491_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Requin, Angélique Dufossé](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2173696_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Concerto, Angélique Dufossé](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2173694_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Serenity on the Horizon, Michael Milkin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2172499_1_grid.jpg)
Serenity on the Horizon
Michael Milkin
Painting - 61.5 x 91.5 x 2.5 cm Painting - 24.2 x 36 x 1 inch
$5,800
![Painting, La Gourmandise, Francois Priser](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2165502_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Untitled, Santiago Torriglia](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2160821_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Under the Veil - black version, Elisa Bonotti](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2155285_1_grid.jpg)
Under the Veil - black version
Elisa Bonotti
Painting - 30 x 30 x 4 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 1.6 inch
$358
![Print, Untitled, Eduardo Arranz-Bravo](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2149579_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Monster, Charbel](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2137070_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, I Mean No Disrespect, David Shrigley](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2135691_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Do not eat him, David Shrigley](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2135690_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Sans titre, Michel Déjean](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2130724_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, 81 Futura white lips on black, Alla Grande](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2129701_1_grid.jpg)
81 Futura white lips on black
Alla Grande
Sculpture - 53 x 53 x 5 cm Sculpture - 20.9 x 20.9 x 2 inch
$2,124
![Sculpture, White net lips, Alla Grande](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2129635_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Les reflets bleus de l’océan... (Esprit voile), Olivier Messas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2129248_1_grid.jpg)
Les reflets bleus de l’océan... (Esprit voile)
Olivier Messas
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,901
![Painting, Variation 59 : série de cinq tableaux à structure identique, symétrique et réversible, trouvé par hazard #5, Claude Tousignant](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2127181_1_grid.jpg)
Variation 59 : série de cinq tableaux à structure identique, symétrique et réversible, trouvé par hazard #5
Claude Tousignant
Painting - 121.9 x 243.8 x 5.1 cm Painting - 48 x 96 x 2 inch
$223,601
![Painting, Losanges en blanc et noir, Claude Tousignant](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2127130_1_grid.jpg)
Losanges en blanc et noir
Claude Tousignant
Painting - 106.7 x 213.4 cm Painting - 42 x 84 inch
$178,881
![Design, Banksy x Nike OFF WHITE Blue, Ske](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2121768_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Flamenco, Jean-Paul Bocaj](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2118222_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, White wedding lips, Alla Grande](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2114307_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Isshin furan. Intense concentration, Léon Kiddo](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2094006_1_grid.jpg)
Isshin furan. Intense concentration
Léon Kiddo
Painting - 40 x 30 x 3 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 1.2 inch
$1,006
![Painting, Onar. Dream, Léon Kiddo](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2094003_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Gontrand, Fabienne Peretti](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2089518_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Sensations (Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, The Beatles & Barbara Streisand), Al Hirschfeld](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2089431_1_grid.jpg)
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
![Fine Art Drawings, Brothers, Tsukasa Tamai](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2088915_1_grid.jpg)
Brothers
Tsukasa Tamai
Fine Art Drawings - 19 x 34.5 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.5 x 13.6 x 0.2 inch
$1,453
![Painting, Dividing, Shiho](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2046936_1_grid.jpg)
![Design, Bear Vuitton X Nike AF1 white/Red, Ske](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2040765_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Fous de Bassan dans les vagues, Hélène Legrand](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2028564_1_grid.jpg)
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
$4,472
![Photography, Signes de désorientations (série), Patrick Beaulieu](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2016825_1_grid.jpg)
Signes de désorientations (série)
Patrick Beaulieu
Photography - 27.9 x 35.6 x 0.3 cm Photography - 11 x 14 x 0.1 inch
$1,565
![Photography, Signes de désorientations (série), Patrick Beaulieu](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2016819_1_grid.jpg)
Signes de désorientations (série)
Patrick Beaulieu
Photography - 27.9 x 35.6 x 0.3 cm Photography - 11 x 14 x 0.1 inch
$1,565
![Photography, Signes de désorientations (série), Patrick Beaulieu](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2016804_1_grid.jpg)
Signes de désorientations (série)
Patrick Beaulieu
Photography - 27.9 x 35.6 x 0.3 cm Photography - 11 x 14 x 0.1 inch
$1,565
![Photography, Signes de désorientations (série), Patrick Beaulieu](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2016801_1_grid.jpg)
Signes de désorientations (série)
Patrick Beaulieu
Photography - 27.9 x 35.6 x 0.3 cm Photography - 11 x 14 x 0.1 inch
$1,565
![Painting, Gratitude for the every moment, Nadine Antoniuk](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1991025_1_grid.jpg)
Gratitude for the every moment
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 95 x 125 x 0.1 cm Painting - 37.4 x 49.2 x 0 inch
$2,795
![Sculpture, Game hope, Ske](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1988019_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Soleil et voiles, sur le pont, Hélène Legrand](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1962048_1_grid.jpg)
Soleil et voiles, sur le pont
Hélène Legrand
Painting - 46 x 61 x 2 cm Painting - 18.1 x 24 x 0.8 inch
$2,571
![Painting, Sleeping Bob, Nicolas Hil](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1933611_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Sans Titre 12 - Ref BDNW9154, Jean-Pierre Stora](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1916901_1_grid.jpg)
Sans Titre 12 - Ref BDNW9154
Jean-Pierre Stora
Fine Art Drawings - 32 x 25 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12.6 x 9.8 inch
$839
![Painting, L'aviateur - Jeux d'enfants, Nacks](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1845639_1_grid.jpg)
L'aviateur - Jeux d'enfants
Nacks
Painting - 50 x 50 x 3.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.4 inch
$783
![Painting, Skyline #13, Sophie Neury](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1822797_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, L'Ultima visita di Mao a Venezia, Erró](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1787523_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Sheelagh Na Gig #2, Elizabeth Hefty-Khoury](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1756023_1_grid.jpg)
Sheelagh Na Gig #2
Elizabeth Hefty-Khoury
Painting - 7.5 x 7.5 x 1 cm Painting - 3 x 3 x 0.4 inch
$325
![Painting, Still life with peaches, Aliya Abs](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1743051_1_grid.jpg)
Still life with peaches
Aliya Abs
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,817
![Sculpture, Incontro Musicale, Tiziano Sculpteur](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1741689_1_grid.jpg)
Incontro Musicale
Tiziano Sculpteur
Sculpture - 215 x 70 x 30 cm Sculpture - 84.6 x 27.6 x 11.8 inch
$21,242
![Fine Art Drawings, Tag 6, Darryl McCray (Cornbread)](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1708971_1_grid.jpg)
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
$168
![Photography, Musicians in Lummus Park, Miami Beach, Andy Sweet](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1627866_1_grid.jpg)
Musicians in Lummus Park, Miami Beach
Andy Sweet
Photography - 40 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$1,845
![Painting, After the Rain, Wang Dianyu](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1594188_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Women, Chiara Santoro](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1576944_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Tt6bs, Stefano Mazzolini](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1544601_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Heart(black and white)-IV, Stanislav Bojankov](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1525140_1_grid.jpg)
Heart(black and white)-IV
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 120 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$2,236
![Painting, Heart(black and white)-II, Stanislav Bojankov](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1525131_1_grid.jpg)
Heart(black and white)-II
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 120 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$2,236
![Fine Art Drawings, La ferme, Bernard Gantner](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1283226_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Rolex Submariner Black Blue, Vincent Sabatier](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1265250_1_grid.jpg)
Rolex Submariner Black Blue
Vincent Sabatier
Print - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Print - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$201
![Print, C'est lui !, Neno Ramos](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1106916_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Blanche et Narcès, Sophie Manaches](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1058880_1_grid.jpg)
Blanche et Narcès
Sophie Manaches
Painting - 65 x 50 x 0.3 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$839
![Painting, Moulin Rouge, Valentyna Odnolko](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1016811_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Cascade., Corinne Marino](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/999906_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Gestures (Stranger than Paradise), Stefanie Schneider](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/859704_1_grid.jpg)
Gestures (Stranger than Paradise)
Stefanie Schneider
Photography - 207 x 155 x 0.3 cm Photography - 81.5 x 61 x 0.1 inch
$29,068
![Painting, Sans Titre, Philippe Lepatre](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/701004_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Une ballade, Marie Aimer](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/429615_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, GRANDIOSE SUMOCAT : WHITE DANCE AND BATTLES OF BALANCE, Hiro Ando](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/428529_1_grid.jpg)
GRANDIOSE SUMOCAT : WHITE DANCE AND BATTLES OF BALANCE
Hiro Ando
Sculpture - 150 x 180 x 120 cm Sculpture - 59.1 x 70.9 x 47.2 inch
$33,540
![Photography, N°1146, Jean-Paul Baret](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/312883_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Emma, Bob Clyatt](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2181687_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Mustang, Philippe Viejo](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2179485_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Love always wins, Yuvi Gold](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2178908_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Jim Morrison, Spaco](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2177708_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Over the Millennia, Nemanja Nikolic](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2175050_1_grid.jpg)
Over the Millennia
Nemanja Nikolic
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 2 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 0.78 inch
$1,901
![Painting, Revelation in Abstraction, Nytia Jenkins](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2158353_1_grid.jpg)
Revelation in Abstraction
Nytia Jenkins
Painting - 27.94 x 35.56 x 2 cm Painting - 11 x 14 x 0.8 inch
$2,683
![Painting, Dos au mur - série Street Art, Henri Mahé dit HIM](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2154792_1_grid.jpg)
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
$3,214
![Painting, Underneath It All, Nemanja Nikolic](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2154222_1_grid.jpg)
Underneath It All
Nemanja Nikolic
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 2 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 0.78 inch
$1,901
![Design, Campbell's White Bat, Ske](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2154091_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Steve Mcqueen, Spaco](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2148096_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Holding back the years, Nemanja Nikolic](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2147140_1_grid.jpg)
Holding back the years
Nemanja Nikolic
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 2 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 0.78 inch
$1,901
![Design, Hope Girl Bat, Ske](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2137038_1_grid.jpg)
![Design, Banksy x Nike OFF WHITE Chicago, Ske](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2121777_1_grid.jpg)
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![Print, America's Bordeaux, Thomas Arvid](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2083623_1_grid.jpg)
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![Painting, Cold bed, Igor Shulman](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2061804_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Very difficult ease., Igor Shulman](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2061753_1_grid.jpg)
Very difficult ease.
Igor Shulman
Painting - 79.8 x 119.9 x 5.1 cm Painting - 31.4 x 47.2 x 2 inch
$4,200
![Painting, Retro beach, Igor Shulman](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2061705_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Golden field 210710, Don Bishop](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2050671_1_grid.jpg)
Golden field 210710
Don Bishop
Painting - 91.4 x 152.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 60 x 1.5 inch
$4,700
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!