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![Painting, Volcán de humo, Charo Velasco](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2142678_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Sitting on a sand dune, Valentin Pacaut](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2136269_1_grid.jpg)
Sitting on a sand dune
Valentin Pacaut
Photography - 50 x 75 x 0.2 cm Photography - 19.7 x 29.5 x 0.1 inch
€500
![Sculpture, Basquiat, JM Collell](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2129377_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Madame Edwarda. Paris: Georges Visat, Hans Bellmer](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2118387_1_grid.jpg)
Madame Edwarda. Paris: Georges Visat
Hans Bellmer
Print - 40 x 26 x 3 cm Print - 15.7 x 10.2 x 1.2 inch
€14,800
![Painting, Rehearsal, Edgard Mazigi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2117670_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Náttúra 2, Sjöfn Kolbeins](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2107407_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Náttúra 1, Sjöfn Kolbeins](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2107380_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Vortex Savvy, Diana Heit](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2050389_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Monochrome 1, Philippe Haniez](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2010081_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Golden Ratio, Cheraine Collette](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1947741_1_grid.jpg)
Golden Ratio
Cheraine Collette
Photography - 120 x 80 x 2 cm Photography - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€6,000
![Painting, Embrace, Tamar Sulakvelidze](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1928814_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Walk, Igor Shulman](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1858320_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Where we always are, Luca Brandi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1733565_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Fiat Lux, Giancarlo Costanzo](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1660527_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Cruxifié couleur orchidée, Emilie Chauvel](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1623918_1_grid.jpg)
Cruxifié couleur orchidée
Emilie Chauvel
Painting - 26 x 32 x 3.5 cm Painting - 10.2 x 12.6 x 1.4 inch
€900
![Painting, Flame Girl, Foucaud Stéphane](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1622040_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Les voiliers de Saint-Tropez... (Esprit voile), Olivier Messas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1551228_1_grid.jpg)
Les voiliers de Saint-Tropez... (Esprit voile)
Olivier Messas
Painting - 120 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
€5,000
![Painting, Les uns contre les autres... (Esprit voile), Olivier Messas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1551198_1_grid.jpg)
Les uns contre les autres... (Esprit voile)
Olivier Messas
Painting - 50 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
€2,200
![Painting, Chiens N.5, Helen Uter](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1533597_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Chiens N.1, Helen Uter](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1533588_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, XIII, Yuki VMDM](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1521684_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, XIV, Yuki VMDM](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1521057_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Landscape in Washi, Jan Sullivan Fowler](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1444206_1_grid.jpg)
Landscape in Washi
Jan Sullivan Fowler
Painting - 20.32 x 25.4 x 0.1 cm Painting - 8 x 10 x 0 inch
€243
![Fine Art Drawings, 50000 Reverso Iizquierdo, Rodrigo Spinel](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1381389_1_grid.jpg)
50000 Reverso Iizquierdo
Rodrigo Spinel
Fine Art Drawings - 29 x 14 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.4 x 5.5 x 0.1 inch
€485
![Painting, In the Basin, Isabelle Vougny](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1325514_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, La Picina, Leticia de Prado](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1090845_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Carte Economique, Christophe Stouvenel](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1016256_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Carte Politique, Christophe Stouvenel](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1016250_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Sonate Hivernale, Maria Teresa Bertina](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/702123_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Iago, Charles Lapicque](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/38352_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Syrtaki, Lana Ritter](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2180290_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Flowers of ghetto, Rodrigo](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2178894_1_grid.jpg)
Flowers of ghetto
Rodrigo
Photography - 35.3 x 53.3 x 0.2 cm Photography - 13.9 x 21 x 0.1 inch
€1,250
![Painting, The Portrait, Mikhail Baranovskiy](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2176310_1_grid.jpg)
The Portrait
Mikhail Baranovskiy
Painting - 122 x 78 x 3 cm Painting - 48 x 30.7 x 1.2 inch
€2,500 €2,000
![Painting, Games People Play, Mikhail Baranovskiy](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2174387_1_grid.jpg)
Games People Play
Mikhail Baranovskiy
Painting - 100 x 70 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 1.2 inch
€2,500
![Fine Art Drawings, Arbre Bistro 5, Bernard Lassus](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2156762_1_grid.jpg)
Arbre Bistro 5
Bernard Lassus
Fine Art Drawings - 20 x 20 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.9 x 7.9 inch
€700
![Fine Art Drawings, Arbre Bistro 4, Bernard Lassus](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2156759_1_grid.jpg)
Arbre Bistro 4
Bernard Lassus
Fine Art Drawings - 20 x 20 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.9 x 7.9 inch
€700
![Fine Art Drawings, Arbre Bistro 3, Bernard Lassus](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2156758_1_grid.jpg)
Arbre Bistro 3
Bernard Lassus
Fine Art Drawings - 20 x 20 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.9 x 7.9 inch
€700
![Painting, Casper the Ghost x PopArt x Obey x White, Koen Betjes](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2140587_1_grid.jpg)
Casper the Ghost x PopArt x Obey x White
Koen Betjes
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
€449
![Painting, Intro do Ray as Ray, Yasmina Nysten](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2130418_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Voodoo, Léa Bon](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2100585_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Dialogue 01, Matthieu Venot](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2091882_1_grid.jpg)
Dialogue 01
Matthieu Venot
Photography - 50 x 62.5 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 24.6 x 0 inch
€1,200
![Painting, Winter's Dream, Kenneth Halvorsen](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2074278_1_grid.jpg)
Winter's Dream
Kenneth Halvorsen
Painting - 152.4 x 101.6 x 3.8 cm Painting - 60 x 40 x 1.5 inch
€4,802
![Painting, Peonies on the dark background, Elena Podmarkova](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2050872_1_grid.jpg)
Peonies on the dark background
Elena Podmarkova
Painting - 76.2 x 101.6 x 2 cm Painting - 30 x 40 x 0.8 inch
€2,076
![Painting, Duet of peonies 2, Elena Podmarkova](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2050866_1_grid.jpg)
Duet of peonies 2
Elena Podmarkova
Painting - 76.2 x 101.6 x 2 cm Painting - 30 x 40 x 0.8 inch
€2,076
![Painting, Peony sunset, Elena Podmarkova](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2050845_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Dark rainy day in Fifth Avenue, Chin H Shin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2044743_1_grid.jpg)
Dark rainy day in Fifth Avenue
Chin H Shin
Painting - 81.3 x 61 x 2.5 cm Painting - 32 x 24 x 1 inch
€3,396
![Sculpture, Samuraicat’s Inkan Resonance , Silver, Hiro Ando](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2004987_1_grid.jpg)
Samuraicat’s Inkan Resonance , Silver
Hiro Ando
Sculpture - 50 x 50 x 15 cm Sculpture - 19.7 x 19.7 x 5.9 inch
€5,000
![Painting, Various States N5, Anna Kazmina](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1968123_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Various States N3, Anna Kazmina](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1968114_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Various States N2, Anna Kazmina](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1968108_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Sea urchin & corals #1, Jeanne Ridao](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1934514_1_grid.jpg)
Sea urchin & corals #1
Jeanne Ridao
Painting - 76 x 61 x 3 cm Painting - 29.9 x 24 x 1.2 inch
€2,400
![Painting, White Gold, Kenneth Halvorsen](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1884216_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Magic White: Two Horses, Valeria Radzievska](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1880691_1_grid.jpg)
Magic White: Two Horses
Valeria Radzievska
Painting - 91.4 x 121.9 x 2 cm Painting - 36 x 48 x 0.8 inch
€4,366
![Painting, Besnard lake, Derek Olson](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1858179_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, White peonies in a cold color, Elena Podmarkova](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1815417_1_grid.jpg)
White peonies in a cold color
Elena Podmarkova
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 2 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 0.8 inch
€2,319
![Photography, Hedren / Paris Match, Gragnon François](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1801827_1_grid.jpg)
Hedren / Paris Match
Gragnon François
Photography - 60 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0 inch
€1,600
![Painting, Parrot bliss, Rinalds Vanadzins](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1770444_1_grid.jpg)
Parrot bliss
Rinalds Vanadzins
Painting - 89.9 x 59.9 x 1.8 cm Painting - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.7 inch
€2,571
![Sculpture, PlayBoy Bat&Art, Ske](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1769904_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Fanfare Irakienne, José Nicolas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1753563_1_grid.jpg)
Fanfare Irakienne
José Nicolas
Photography - 40 x 60 x 1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
€900
![Photography, Burkina 1998 Coupe d'Afrique des Nations, José Nicolas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1753254_1_grid.jpg)
Burkina 1998 Coupe d'Afrique des Nations
José Nicolas
Photography - 60 x 90 x 1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.4 inch
€1,500
![Photography, Mer de glace, José Nicolas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1753242_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Terra Nova (space ship), Robbie Cornelissen](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1647507_1_grid.jpg)
Terra Nova (space ship)
Robbie Cornelissen
Fine Art Drawings - 20.3 x 30.5 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8 x 12 x 0.1 inch
€1,170
![Fine Art Drawings, Four Clouds, Robbie Cornelissen](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1647498_1_grid.jpg)
Four Clouds
Robbie Cornelissen
Fine Art Drawings - 50.8 x 71.1 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 20 x 28 x 0.1 inch
€2,600
![Fine Art Drawings, White rhino, Aurélie Trabaud](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1637685_1_grid.jpg)
White rhino
Aurélie Trabaud
Fine Art Drawings - 20 x 20 x 0.4 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.2 inch
€550
![Sculpture, White Tiger Handmade Sculpture for Home Decor, Dervis Akdemir](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1635810_1_grid.jpg)
White Tiger Handmade Sculpture for Home Decor
Dervis Akdemir
Sculpture - 14 x 30 x 7 cm Sculpture - 5.5 x 11.8 x 2.8 inch
€173
![Painting, I am, Michaela Skuhrava](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1625970_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Ephemère 1, Michel Narbonne](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1613139_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Zébre, Mosko](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1612398_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, White Flowers, Yosl Bergner](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1580361_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Sail II, Veronica Jurkowitsch](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1549443_1_grid.jpg)
Sail II
Veronica Jurkowitsch
Sculpture - 110 x 43 x 15 cm Sculpture - 43.3 x 16.9 x 5.9 inch
€14,250
![Painting, No smoking, Gina Mariotto](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1516347_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, All ours, Gina Mariotto](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1516326_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Fluidité 7, Martine Lallement](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1392618_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Coquelicots N°6 rose, SAB](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1381407_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Les fusils, Georges Corominas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1286793_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Still Life with a Broken Egg, Antwerp, Michael James O'Brien](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1180542_1_grid.jpg)
Still Life with a Broken Egg, Antwerp
Michael James O'Brien
Photography - 152.4 x 203.2 x 0.3 cm Photography - 60 x 80 x 0.1 inch
€11,642
![Sculpture, Dancing Woman 2018 I, Yiyan Zhou](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/880491_1_grid.jpg)
Dancing Woman 2018 I
Yiyan Zhou
Sculpture - 17.5 x 23.5 x 7 cm Sculpture - 6.9 x 9.3 x 2.8 inch
€5,200
![Print, Appearance-PG-VIII, Akané Kirimura](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/443460_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Appearance-PG-VII, Akané Kirimura](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/443454_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Appearance-PG-VI, Akané Kirimura](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/443433_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, King lion, Cxmpaign](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2179368_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Still life with fishes, Arayik Murdaynan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2161649_1_grid.jpg)
Still life with fishes
Arayik Murdaynan
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€437
![Photography, Above the sky, Kseniia Redina](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2159011_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Oasis, Kseniia Redina](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2158981_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Waves 3, Kseniia Redina](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2158980_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Sky full of flowers, Kseniia Redina](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2158565_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Péniche, Philippe Matine](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2157640_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Ascoltato, Philippe Matine](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2156927_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Bien ici, Philippe Matine](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2156919_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, White CH Tribute Candy, Julie Jaler](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2152033_1_grid.jpg)
White CH Tribute Candy
Julie Jaler
Sculpture - 40 x 20 x 20 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 7.9 x 7.9 inch
€600
![Print, Val d'Isère, Philippe Matine](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2149760_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, White mate, Karenina Fabrizzi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2141858_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Sweet forest D, Karenina Fabrizzi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2141828_1_grid.jpg)
Sweet forest D
Karenina Fabrizzi
Painting - 160 x 200 x 3.5 cm Painting - 63 x 78.7 x 1.4 inch
€3,680
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!