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Without Title (Sans Titre)
Emerich Meerson
Painting - 100 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
$20,194 $10,097
Je t'attends
Marie-Madeleine Vitrolles
Sculpture - 46 x 19 x 12 cm Sculpture - 18.1 x 7.5 x 4.7 inch
$729
Composition noir et blanc 6
Albert Ràfols-Casamada
Print - 38.5 x 57 x 0.1 cm Print - 15.2 x 22.4 x 0 inch
$671
Without Title (Sans Titre)
Emerich Meerson
Painting - 65 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$8,975 $4,488
Delirio Exótico #2
Paloma Castello
Photography - 82.8 x 119.9 x 0.3 cm Photography - 32.6 x 47.2 x 0.1 inch
$1,500
Há lados II (1)
Gersony Silva
Fine Art Drawings - 15 x 28 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 5.9 x 11 x 0.4 inch
$1,346
Há lados I (2)
Gersony Silva
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 15 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 5.9 x 0.4 inch
$1,458
Enjoy the view anywhere
Juffrouw Springtouw
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,402
Composition noir et blanc 7
Albert Ràfols-Casamada
Print - 57 x 38.5 x 0.1 cm Print - 22.4 x 15.2 x 0 inch
$449
En Pointe ii
Marie Constantelli
Painting - 93 x 75 x 1 cm Painting - 36.6 x 29.5 x 0.4 inch
$892 $447
Nous ne sommes pas les derniers 203
Zoran Music
Print - 26.5 x 23.5 cm Print - 10.4 x 9.3 inch
$3,366
Untitled 30 from the series of INtheVISIBLE
Arslan Sükan
Photography - 140 x 110 x 0.1 cm Photography - 55.1 x 43.3 x 0 inch
$4,500
Série : Berlin nord-est / arrière-cours - Kastanienallee
Manfred Paul
Photography - 40 x 30 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11.8 inch
$2,805 $2,104
Série : Berlin nord-est / arrière-cours - Kastanienallee
Manfred Paul
Photography - 40 x 30 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11.8 inch
$2,805 $2,384
Untitled 34 from the series of INtheVISIBLE
Arslan Sükan
Photography - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$2,500
Untitled 6 from the series of INtheVISIBLE
Arslan Sükan
Photography - 180 x 250 x 0.1 cm Photography - 70.9 x 98.4 x 0 inch
$5,000
Untitled 5 from the series of INtheVISIBLE
Arslan Sükan
Photography - 170 x 255 x 0.1 cm Photography - 66.9 x 100.4 x 0 inch
$5,000
Untitled 33 from the series of INtheVISIBLE
Arslan Sükan
Photography - 70 x 100 x 0.1 cm Photography - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0 inch
$3,500
Sadhus sur les ghats de Bénarès. Inde
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 70 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,122 $1,010
Niki Lauda. F1
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 90 x 60 x 2 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,571 $1,335
Ayrton Senna. Mexique. F1
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 70 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,122 $1,010
Niki Lauda. MacLaren. F1
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 90 x 70 x 2 cm Photography - 35.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,122 $1,010
Grande Motte Seagulls 2V
Clemente Vergara
Photography - 70 x 56 cm Photography - 27.6 x 22 inch
$505
A feast that is always with you
Mikhail Baranovskiy
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 1 inch
$2,019 $1,616
Grand Sumo blanc
François Rambaud
Sculpture - 85 x 70 x 50 cm Sculpture - 33.5 x 27.6 x 19.7 inch
$4,039 $3,635
Acto Tres. From the series - Acto Uno
Ricky Cohete
Photography - 76.2 x 50.8 x 0.3 cm Photography - 30 x 20 x 0.1 inch
$2,222
Acto Uno. From the series - Acto Uno
Ricky Cohete
Photography - 76.2 x 50.8 x 0.3 cm Photography - 30 x 20 x 0.1 inch
$2,222
Untitled. From the series Acto Uno
Ricky Cohete
Photography - 50.8 x 76.2 x 0.3 cm Photography - 20 x 30 x 0.1 inch
$2,222
Alas. From the series Acto Uno
Ricky Cohete
Photography - 50.8 x 76.2 x 0.3 cm Photography - 20 x 30 x 0.1 inch
$2,222
Acto Dos. From the series - Acto Uno
Ricky Cohete
Photography - 76.2 x 50.8 x 0.3 cm Photography - 30 x 20 x 0.1 inch
$2,222
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!