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![Sculpture, Cougar Skull, Christopher Schulz](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2145779_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Tag 15, Darryl McCray (Cornbread)](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1991976_1_grid.jpg)
Tag 15
Darryl McCray (Cornbread)
Fine Art Drawings - 14 x 11 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 5.5 x 4.3 x 0 inch
$196
![Print, Behind (sérigraphie), Richard Prince](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1962042_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Veliero, Mario Schifano](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1505943_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, The Sorrel, Gianni Testa](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1481826_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, From Earth, Mario Surbone](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1480908_1_grid.jpg)
From Earth
Mario Surbone
Fine Art Drawings - 18 x 14.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.1 x 5.7 x 0 inch
$314
![Print, Le livre des livres, Fermin Aguayo](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1228725_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Openspace, Paka](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2127721_1_grid.jpg)
![Design, Biagio 282 Table Lamp, Tobia Scarpa](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2087736_1_grid.jpg)
Biagio 282 Table Lamp
Tobia Scarpa
Design - 39 x 13.5 x 39 cm Design - 15.4 x 5.3 x 15.4 inch
$7,287
![Print, Spirit of the chase, Todd White](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2083680_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, La gloire, Hélene Maris](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1970124_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Marlow's thoughts (in his dark heart), Rhett Boland](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1733820_1_grid.jpg)
Marlow's thoughts (in his dark heart)
Rhett Boland
Fine Art Drawings - 29 x 21 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.4 x 8.3 x 0.4 inch
$2,647
![Painting, 3108, Javier Martínez](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1514370_1_grid.jpg)
![Design, Porcelaine de Rêve - Bleu N°7, Anany](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1504290_1_grid.jpg)
Porcelaine de Rêve - Bleu N°7
Anany
Design - 0.3 x 18.5 x 18.5 cm Design - 0.1 x 7.3 x 7.3 inch
$269
![Sculpture, Kashia 2 - 1/1, Delphine Lepoutre](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/619896_1_grid.jpg)
Kashia 2 - 1/1
Delphine Lepoutre
Sculpture - 86 x 13 x 13 cm Sculpture - 33.9 x 5.1 x 5.1 inch
$1,121
![Sculpture, Dali, JM Collell](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2121021_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Born to be ride, Bat'Art](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2078013_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, 03082022, SoemOne](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2041236_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Metsuki, expresar atraves de la mirada, Suca](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2041209_1_grid.jpg)
Metsuki, expresar atraves de la mirada
Suca
Painting - 40 x 70 x 3 cm Painting - 15.7 x 27.6 x 1.2 inch
$1,738
![Painting, Est-a-te, Giancarlo Costanzo](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1660515_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Cherry Blossom, Bruce Gilden](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1656264_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Same Page, Carbonn Blck](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1529475_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Deep Bless (les dents de la mère), FabEnt (Fabrice Entemeyer)](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2176159_1_grid.jpg)
Deep Bless (les dents de la mère)
FabEnt (Fabrice Entemeyer)
Sculpture - 25 x 12 x 11 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 4.7 x 4.3 inch
$785
![Fine Art Drawings, Sans titre, Menachem Gueffen](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2150310_1_grid.jpg)
Sans titre
Menachem Gueffen
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 28 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11 x 0.4 inch
$650
![Painting, Fauvette, Witold Pyzik](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2131180_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Long live the queen, Alexandar Inchovski](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2108196_1_grid.jpg)
Long live the queen
Alexandar Inchovski
Painting - 87 x 58 x 3 cm Painting - 34.3 x 22.8 x 1.2 inch
$2,242
![Painting, Raccordement, Mehdi Cibille Le MoDuLe De ZeeR](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2005254_1_grid.jpg)
Raccordement
Mehdi Cibille Le MoDuLe De ZeeR
Painting - 120 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$7,845
![Print, A black square, Elephant, a Ee](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1748796_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Can you keep a secret, Marisol Evora](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1605246_1_grid.jpg)
Can you keep a secret
Marisol Evora
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3.7 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.5 inch
$13,627
![Print, Peace, Gris1](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/101635_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Untitled III, Joo Yeon Judy Yang](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2155538_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Wrapped series untitled #2, Robert Mack](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2143729_1_grid.jpg)
Wrapped series untitled #2
Robert Mack
Photography - 86.4 x 58.4 x 2.5 cm Photography - 34 x 23 x 1 inch
$4,250
![Painting, Untitled, Susumu Kamijo](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2129920_1_grid.jpg)
![Design, Set of 4 Vintage Chairs, Giancarlo Piretti](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2089650_1_grid.jpg)
Set of 4 Vintage Chairs
Giancarlo Piretti
Design - 70 x 70 x 55 cm Design - 27.6 x 27.6 x 21.7 inch
$4,484
![Painting, Miroir de la vie, Charles Carson](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2076618_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Attraction, Vincent Bargis M7](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2040699_1_grid.jpg)
Attraction
Vincent Bargis M7
Painting - 100.3 x 100.3 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.5 x 39.5 x 1 inch
$6,300
![Design, Dessert Plate (lot de 6 assiettes en céramique Royal Limoges sérigraphiée), Claude Closky](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1966284_1_grid.jpg)
Dessert Plate (lot de 6 assiettes en céramique Royal Limoges sérigraphiée)
Claude Closky
Design - 26 x 1 x 1 cm Design - 10.2 x 0.4 x 0.4 inch
$706
![Design, Vintage 1094 floor lamp, Gino Sarfatti](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1942773_1_grid.jpg)
Vintage 1094 floor lamp
Gino Sarfatti
Design - 160 x 50 x 25 cm Design - 63 x 19.7 x 9.8 inch
$5,157
![Print, Le cirque, Sakti Burman](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1769763_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Judy Garland, Efi Mashiah](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1255890_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, View of Rotterdam, Ria Klaveren-Exel](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/699234_1_grid.jpg)
View of Rotterdam
Ria Klaveren-Exel
Print - 46.3 x 57.5 x 0.2 cm Print - 18.2 x 22.6 x 0.1 inch
$448
![Design, Paola Table Lamp, Tetrarch Paola](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2089548_1_grid.jpg)
![Design, Wave Sofa, Giovanni Offredi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2089413_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, City 2, Jérôme Poumès](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2027733_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, ''Gunina''en Givenchy, Paris le 5 Août 1955 Elle Magazine, Georges Dambier](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1985997_1_grid.jpg)
''Gunina''en Givenchy, Paris le 5 Août 1955 Elle Magazine
Georges Dambier
Photography - 74 x 68 x 2 cm Photography - 29.1 x 26.8 x 0.8 inch
$3,924
![Print, Sasuke, Masahisa Fukase](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1656285_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Serie Papelitos de Color, Sara Stewart Brown](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1644861_1_grid.jpg)
Serie Papelitos de Color
Sara Stewart Brown
Painting - 94 x 152 x 1 cm Painting - 37 x 59.8 x 0.4 inch
$9,328
![Print, Sans titre, Pole Lehmann](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1599144_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Ramses, Gina Mariotto](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1516317_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, So Concerned, Michael Knigin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1158945_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Ponte Garibaldi, Rome, Antonio Vangelli](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1109826_1_grid.jpg)
Ponte Garibaldi, Rome
Antonio Vangelli
Painting - 35 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 13.8 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$4,260
![Sculpture, Give me some space, Elena Shuppo](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2172873_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Ces gens-là, Walter Barrientos](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/802608_1_grid.jpg)
![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
![Painting, Der Beobachter #2, Joe Köstlinger](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2150556_1_grid.jpg)
Der Beobachter #2
Joe Köstlinger
Painting - 120 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,242
![Print, Images-forêts - A05017, Léa Habourdin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1981143_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Spanish melody, Erick Ifergan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1694784_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Graciela Iturbide, Des oiseaux - Édition limitée, Graciela Iturbide](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1655148_1_grid.jpg)
Graciela Iturbide, Des oiseaux - Édition limitée
Graciela Iturbide
Print - 25 x 19.5 cm Print - 9.8 x 7.7 inch
$673
![Painting, Sans titre 346, Danielle Prijikorski](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1335651_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Lauren Bacall, Stikki Peaches](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2171395_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Herbarium VII, Igor Ost](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2159741_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Answering questions, Serval](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2156502_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, The golden apple, Marie Serruya](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2107572_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Spring Innocence, Susan Porter](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1884999_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Self Movement, Alejandra Sieder](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1477680_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Zone A, Pi.R](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/124567_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, MS0052 Asparagus Bud, Mike Swaney](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2177730_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Sour cherries in my garden, Ignata Vasileva](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2159104_1_grid.jpg)
Sour cherries in my garden
Ignata Vasileva
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$4,260
![Print, Quatre à Sète, Marie Détrée](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1952853_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Alek Wek, Thierry Le Gouès](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1682970_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Queen, Vladimir Prodanovich](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/981756_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, 1 - La descente de Persephone, Mita Vostok](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/259108_1_grid.jpg)
1 - La descente de Persephone
Mita Vostok
Photography - 60 x 40 x 1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
$897
![Painting, Here, Lauren Naomi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2173203_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Love, Petite Poissone](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2145720_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, 81 Blue on White, Anita Agnieszka Edvinsson](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2141940_1_grid.jpg)
81 Blue on White
Anita Agnieszka Edvinsson
Painting - 76 x 57 x 1 cm Painting - 29.9 x 22.4 x 0.4 inch
$3,251
![Painting, Untitled, Japani Shyam](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1967331_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Memorie e vecchi ori (heroes), Alberto La Tassa](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1796907_1_grid.jpg)
Memorie e vecchi ori (heroes)
Alberto La Tassa
Painting - 160 x 230 x 3 cm Painting - 63 x 90.6 x 1.2 inch
$26,906
![Print, Banksy VS. Blek Le Rat ), Iabo World](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1779741_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Dessin, Wolfgang Gäfgen](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2168748_1_grid.jpg)
Dessin
Wolfgang Gäfgen
Fine Art Drawings - 72 x 103 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 28.3 x 40.6 x 0.1 inch
$2,466
![Painting, Poetry of nature, Ref. 1507, Nasser Azizi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2140575_1_grid.jpg)
Poetry of nature, Ref. 1507
Nasser Azizi
Painting - 110 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 43.3 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$6,727
![Painting, Cerises sur étagère, Philippe Destors](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2113101_1_grid.jpg)
Cerises sur étagère
Philippe Destors
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,446
![Painting, JL 7/76, Jean Leppien](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2086983_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, 512 Hours, Marina Abramovic](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2040669_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Red lips Geisha, Laure Pollina](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1963917_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, It's a Tie 1 of 3, Larissa Schlick](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1625406_1_grid.jpg)
It's a Tie 1 of 3
Larissa Schlick
Painting - 120 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
$3,363
![Photography, Johanna, Courrèges Haute couture, Champs-Elysées, Paris, Peter Knapp](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1122192_1_grid.jpg)
Johanna, Courrèges Haute couture, Champs-Elysées, Paris
Peter Knapp
Photography - 21.2 x 21.2 x 0.5 cm Photography - 8.3 x 8.3 x 0.2 inch
$4,036
![Print, Sin Titulo, Carme Serra Viaplana](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1053552_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Untitled, Rima Salamoun](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2149084_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Scribble untitled F, Eron](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2149017_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Flamenco, Michèle Chast](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2144158_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Ambiance de plage, Clothilde Lasserre](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2000076_1_grid.jpg)
Ambiance de plage
Clothilde Lasserre
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$751
![Sculpture, Karl, Chrystèle Saint-Amaux](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2166210_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Arbre Bistro 2, Bernard Lassus](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2156746_1_grid.jpg)
Arbre Bistro 2
Bernard Lassus
Fine Art Drawings - 20 x 12 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.9 x 4.7 inch
$673
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!