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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
Seems Heavy, There's Help
Kpe Innocent
Painting - 100 x 100 x 5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 2 inch
$6,785
Critical Infrastructure Facility
Halyna Abramova
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,131
The Curtain Call
Kiritin Beyer
Photography - 102 x 102 x 0.1 cm Photography - 40.2 x 40.2 x 0 inch
$1,696
The Lost Overlook
Kiritin Beyer
Photography - 51 x 76 x 0.1 cm Photography - 20.1 x 29.9 x 0 inch
$1,131
Soprano's Fate
Kiritin Beyer
Photography - 102 x 102 x 0.1 cm Photography - 40.2 x 40.2 x 0 inch
$1,696
Un autre visage
Éric Dabancourt
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 40 x 2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$407
The Swan Lake of Love
Yasna Godovanik
Painting - 100 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,414 $820
V.I.T.R.I.O.L.
Gustavo Díaz Sosa
Painting - 50 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 19.7 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
$7,351
Hombre del torrente, de la serie Wrong way to heaven (1)
Gustavo Díaz Sosa
Painting - 116 x 146 x 4 cm Painting - 45.7 x 57.5 x 1.6 inch
$9,952
Hombre del torrente, de la serie Wrong way to heaven
Gustavo Díaz Sosa
Painting - 130 x 195 x 4 cm Painting - 51.2 x 76.8 x 1.6 inch
$12,779
30cm Heart CH Tribute Black
Naor
Sculpture - 30 x 15 x 10 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 5.9 x 3.9 inch
$1,504
35cm Teddy CH Tribute, Chrome White
Naor
Sculpture - 35 x 25 x 28 cm Sculpture - 13.8 x 9.8 x 11 inch
$1,323
Peinture 11-2023-67
Alain Bécanne
Painting - 120 x 120 x 4.5 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.8 inch
$1,357
Marine abstraite 2024-48
Fred Boutet
Painting - 50 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 19.7 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$679
Rhythmogramm Klangfläche
Heinrich Heidersberger
Photography - 30 x 24 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 9.4 x 0 inch
$9,499
Rhythmogramm Verzeichnis Nr: 03782_000_253
Heinrich Heidersberger
Photography - 24 x 18 x 0.1 cm Photography - 9.4 x 7.1 x 0 inch
$6,559
L'aube de tes jours
Cécile Desserle
Painting - 116 x 89 x 2 cm Painting - 45.7 x 35 x 0.8 inch
$4,297
Lovely garden daisies
Elena Lukina
Painting - 50 x 39 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,040
London, lithograpie originale
Tony Soulié
Print - 90 x 76 x 0.5 cm Print - 35.4 x 29.9 x 0.2 inch
$1,018
L'Arbre du Lac
Sinden Collier
Photography - 41 x 61 x 0.1 cm Photography - 16.1 x 24 x 0 inch
$1,809
As Far As You Can See
Eniafe Gbenga
Painting - 55.9 x 50.8 x 2.5 cm Painting - 22 x 20 x 1 inch
$1,350
Brigitte Bardot "Kitchen"
Peter Donkersloot
Painting - 150 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 59.1 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$9,613
Marine abstraite 2024-51
Fred Boutet
Painting - 40 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 15.7 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$792
Vivent les animaux X Brigitte Bardot
Jérôme Mesnager
Painting - 50 x 30 x 0.2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$3,958
Black Burger CH Tribute
Di Lorenzo
Sculpture - 17 x 17 x 17 cm Sculpture - 6.7 x 6.7 x 6.7 inch
$950
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!