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Breeze - Arm Chair
Poonam Choudhary
Design - 73.7 x 65 x 82 cm Design - 29 x 25.6 x 32.3 inch
CHF 1,419
Red Rose of the Revolution
Parimah Avani
Painting - 21 x 28 x 0.2 cm Painting - 8.3 x 11 x 0.1 inch
CHF 510 CHF 434
Untitled 1
David Paul Kay
Fine Art Drawings - 16 x 16 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 6.3 x 6.3 x 0 inch
CHF 612
False Idol II
Scott Troxel
Sculpture - 35.6 x 17.8 x 5.7 cm Sculpture - 14 x 7 x 2.25 inch
CHF 1,429
Compo ivoire et bleue
Bernard Neulat
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
CHF 510
The little white butterflies
Alla Grande
Painting - 100 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
CHF 2,041
Rhythmogramm 183A
Heinrich Heidersberger
Photography - 59.4 x 42 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.4 x 16.5 x 0 inch
CHF 1,378
Behind the mask
Grégoire Devin
Painting - 213.4 x 213.4 x 5.1 cm Painting - 84 x 84 x 2 inch
CHF 19,299
Gliding Towards Tomorrow
Kpe Innocent
Painting - 80 x 80 x 5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 2 inch
CHF 4,592
Collection
Samuel Bloch
Painting - 165 x 200 x 3 cm Painting - 65 x 78.7 x 1.2 inch
CHF 6,123 CHF 5,817
Vital XLIV. Scent Collection (5)
Tuba Onder Demircioglu
Sculpture - 61 x 15 x 10 cm Sculpture - 24 x 5.9 x 3.9 inch
CHF 6,684
Variations cinétiques 1
Piero Cipolat
Painting - 50 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
CHF 1,194
De tornada al país de la nieve
Francesca Poza
Painting - 50 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
CHF 1,051
Petite composition 7-24
Jean François Guelfi
Painting - 41 x 33 x 2 cm Painting - 16.1 x 13 x 0.8 inch
CHF 255
The Rebirth of Wilhelm
Andrei Shchurok
Painting - 130 x 190 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 74.8 x 1.2 inch
CHF 7,654
Soft abstraction IX
Tamara Bakhshinyan
Painting - 70 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
CHF 611 CHF 551
To overshoot A362
Vito Sardano
Painting - 50 x 50 x 15 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 5.9 inch
CHF 2,041 CHF 1,939
Sans titre
Vassily Kandinsky
Fine Art Drawings - 31 x 49 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12.2 x 19.3 inch
CHF 61,231
Ukiyo. Japon Series
Davide Susca
Painting - 45 x 45 x 3 cm Painting - 17.7 x 17.7 x 1.2 inch
CHF 1,327
Topographie végétale (2)
Sophie Zénon
Sculpture - 50 x 15 x 15 cm Sculpture - 19.7 x 5.9 x 5.9 inch
CHF 2,245
Masquerade of emotions
Aram Sevoyan
Painting - 90 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
CHF 1,892
The white garden
Alla Grande
Sculpture - 100 x 100 x 5 cm Sculpture - 39.4 x 39.4 x 2 inch
CHF 2,245
Cecil's triple action
Matthew Rose
Painting - 30 x 24 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 9.4 x 0.8 inch
CHF 612
Pinkie with Green Marks
Liz Zorn
Painting - 86.4 x 78.7 x 2.5 cm Painting - 34 x 31 x 1 inch
CHF 1,490
When looking at this with closed eyes (dyptique)
Shusaku Arakawa
Print - 105 x 146 x 0.1 cm Print - 41.3 x 57.5 x 0 inch
CHF 1,429
Natural Flow Series n11
Rosario Briones
Painting - 99.8 x 69.9 x 0.3 cm Painting - 39.3 x 27.5 x 0.1 inch
CHF 1,514
Coeur argenté
Béatrice Bost Le Moël
Sculpture - 50 x 50 x 3 cm Sculpture - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
CHF 2,551
Delirium Tremens
Goulwen (Leyto) Mahé
Painting - 130 x 195 x 4 cm Painting - 51.2 x 76.8 x 1.6 inch
CHF 6,123
Ragisména series White M5
Rodrigo Zuliani Hauck Zampol
Sculpture - 30 x 19.8 x 3.8 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 7.8 x 1.5 inch
CHF 568
Díptico desliz
Esther Argelich
Painting - 65 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
CHF 1,225
1 of infinite possibilities of seeing a particular rectangle a little different
Guido Winkler
Print - 30 x 40 x 0.1 cm Print - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0 inch
CHF 439
2022/12-1- GA55
Guillaume Allemand
Sculpture - 50 x 50 x 3 cm Sculpture - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
CHF 1,531
Winter Twist
Irina Bellaye BlanXs
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
CHF 765
Dysfunctional structure n°3.
Guido de Boer
Painting - 65 x 50 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 inch
CHF 765
The late night talking 3
Luca Brandi
Painting - 111.8 x 76.2 x 0.3 cm Painting - 44 x 30 x 0.1 inch
CHF 2,375
Restitutio
Vygandas Šimbelis (Das Vegas)
Print - 42.5 x 32 x 4 cm Print - 16.7 x 12.6 x 1.6 inch
CHF 1,429
RockStool ST10 size: M
Tam Sachs
Design - 48 x 65 x 75 cm Design - 18.9 x 25.6 x 29.5 inch
CHF 3,776
Green Reflection
Bernadette Jiyong Frank
Painting - 122 x 122 x 3 cm Painting - 48 x 48 x 1.2 inch
CHF 9,440
Grand Espace Cosmique
Aurélie Jeannin
Painting - 120 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
CHF 2,041
SET OF 9. Black and White, Line Drawing. Abstract Works on Paper
Clemens Wolf
Fine Art Drawings - 223.8 x 178.8 x 3.8 cm Fine Art Drawings - 88.1 x 70.4 x 1.5 inch
CHF 18,457
Darkness is the light
Janina Wierusz Kowalska
Painting - 160 x 160 x 2 cm Painting - 63 x 63 x 0.8 inch
CHF 11,369
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!