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Jungle 3D - Diptyque n°02
La Robotte
Painting - 65 x 54 x 3 cm Painting - 25.6 x 21.3 x 1.2 inch
$905
Jungle 3D - Diptyque n°01
La Robotte
Painting - 65 x 54 x 3 cm Painting - 25.6 x 21.3 x 1.2 inch
$905
Mother Earth
Parimah Avani
Fine Art Drawings - 120 x 45 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 47.2 x 17.7 x 0.1 inch
$1,131
Vase rouge et noir marine
Valérie Le Roux
Design - 20 x 12 x 12 cm Design - 7.9 x 4.7 x 4.7 inch
Sold
Crazy little Thing called Love
Katharina Hormel
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$679
GackoBear Love pop art Karl
André Gacko
Sculpture - 27 x 26 x 21 cm Sculpture - 10.6 x 10.2 x 8.3 inch
$1,459
Gacko Bear édition spéciale
André Gacko
Sculpture - 27 x 26 x 21 cm Sculpture - 10.6 x 10.2 x 8.3 inch
$1,459
GackoBear Love pop art Mondrian
André Gacko
Sculpture - 27 x 26 x 21 cm Sculpture - 10.6 x 10.2 x 8.3 inch
$1,459
GackoBear Love pop art Banksy White
André Gacko
Sculpture - 27 x 26 x 21 cm Sculpture - 10.6 x 10.2 x 8.3 inch
$1,459
A Woman on a Blitch
Michael Gorban
Painting - 80 x 120 x 2.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 x 1 inch
$3,958
Minimal Forms 02
Poonam Choudhary
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$650 $585
Jerrican chanel white
Ghost Art
Sculpture - 52 x 44 x 19 cm Sculpture - 20.5 x 17.3 x 7.5 inch
$2,601
Aus dem Gruppenbuch der Christiane P. - Umerziehung Der Vögel II
Matthias Leupold
Photography - 50 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$1,018
Communion Sylvestre
Corine Lescop
Painting - 70 x 70 x 2.5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 1 inch
$1,470
Blooming Grace
Kayimahe Ishmael Zed
Painting - 89.9 x 70.1 x 2.5 cm Painting - 35.4 x 27.6 x 1 inch
$1,750
Neue Kammern Enfilade V. From the Neue Kammern Enfilades series
Celia Rogge
Photography - 182.9 x 121.9 x 0.3 cm Photography - 72 x 48 x 0.1 inch
$9,875
Fantasia
Laurence Hubswerlin Diradourian
Painting - 120 x 40 x 2.5 cm Painting - 47.2 x 15.7 x 1 inch
$1,742
A Pulp Fiction pop art tribute
Patrick Cornée
Painting - 120 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$5,541 $4,987
Majesty in Monochrome
Tamar Nazaryan
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,200
Chapelle à Uzès - église et paysage du Gard
Claude Frégère
Painting - 49 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 19.3 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,120
Kara et ses oreilles
Fatoumata Diabaté
Photography - 100 x 66 x 2 cm Photography - 39.4 x 26 x 0.8 inch
$3,393
Swinging Beauty (Lightbox)
David Drebin
Photography - 152.4 x 121.9 cm Photography - 60 x 48 inch
$36,000
Peinture 11-2023-70
Alain Bécanne
Painting - 100 x 150 x 4.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 1.8 inch
$1,696
Serie: Wrong way to heaven
Gustavo Díaz Sosa
Painting - 75 x 116 x 4 cm Painting - 29.5 x 45.7 x 1.6 inch
$2,601
Icon collage (top)
Shepard Fairey (Obey)
Print - 35.56 x 27.94 x 0.2 cm Print - 14 x 11 x 0.1 inch
$396
Untitled soft in white
Ronald Hunter
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,356
Running The Bridge (Lightbox)
David Drebin
Photography - 121.9 x 182.9 cm Photography - 48 x 72 inch
$36,000
Running The Bridge (L)
David Drebin
Photography - 121.9 x 182.9 cm Photography - 48 x 72 inch
$14,500
Red Dress In Paris (Lightbox)
David Drebin
Photography - 121.9 x 182.9 cm Photography - 48 x 72 inch
$36,000
Red Dress In Paris (L)
David Drebin
Photography - 121.9 x 182.9 cm Photography - 48 x 72 inch
$14,500
Hotel Chelsea, New York. Room 419
Victoria Cohen
Photography - 50.8 x 76.2 x 0.3 cm Photography - 20 x 30 x 0.1 inch
$2,300
Hilton Falls - 13309
Simeon Posen
Photography - 25.4 x 30.5 x 5.1 cm Photography - 10 x 12 x 2 inch
$900
Midway Lights - 99127
Simeon Posen
Photography - 25.4 x 30.5 x 5.1 cm Photography - 10 x 12 x 2 inch
$900
99102- Midway Lights
Simeon Posen
Photography - 25.4 x 30.5 x 5.1 cm Photography - 10 x 12 x 2 inch
$900
99101 - Midway Lights
Simeon Posen
Photography - 25.4 x 30.5 x 5.1 cm Photography - 10 x 12 x 2 inch
$900
Readers series - Philosophy of money
Nikolaus von Wolff
Print - 50 x 50 x 0.1 cm Print - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$905
Midnight Flowers
Kirill Postovit
Painting - 100 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,696
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!