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Black tattoo
Sylvie Julkowski-Egard
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,696
Arbres de la vallée de la Clarée, Hautes-Alpes, de la série Sur les chemins du Briançonnais
José Nicolas
Photography - 36 x 36 x 0.1 cm Photography - 14.2 x 14.2 x 0 inch
$565
Vallée de la Clarée, Hautes-Alpes, de la série Sur les chemins du Briançonnais
José Nicolas
Photography - 36 x 36 x 0.1 cm Photography - 14.2 x 14.2 x 0 inch
$565
Col du Chardonnet, Hautes-Alpes, de la série "Sur les chemins du Briançonnais"
José Nicolas
Photography - 36 x 36 x 0.1 cm Photography - 14.2 x 14.2 x 0 inch
$565
Paysage d'hiver du refuge du Chardonnet, Hautes-Alpes, de la série "Sur les chemins du Briançonnais"
José Nicolas
Photography - 36 x 36 x 0.1 cm Photography - 14.2 x 14.2 x 0 inch
$565
Paysage d'hiver du refuge du Chardonnet, Hautes-Alpes, de la série "Sur les chemins du Briançonnais"
José Nicolas
Photography - 36 x 36 x 0.1 cm Photography - 14.2 x 14.2 x 0 inch
$565
E.o.d (End of day)
Martin Johansson
Painting - 100 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$4,297
Unveiling illusions
Maria Esmar
Painting - 140 x 220 x 0.2 cm Painting - 55.1 x 86.6 x 0.1 inch
$7,238
Les amants
Guillaume Lachapelle
Sculpture - 6.4 x 17.8 x 12.7 cm Sculpture - 2.5 x 7 x 5 inch
$3,845
La soupirante
Guillaume Lachapelle
Sculpture - 13 x 11.9 x 7.1 cm Sculpture - 5.1 x 4.7 x 2.8 inch
$2,714
Insécables (Diptych)
Guillaume Lachapelle
Sculpture - 14 x 17 x 6.1 cm Sculpture - 5.5 x 6.7 x 2.4 inch
$4,297
Odessa
Reynold Arnould
Fine Art Drawings - 18 x 27 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.1 x 10.6 x 0.1 inch
$509
Be My Star
Elvira Carrasco
Photography - 135 x 100 x 1 cm Photography - 53.1 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
$4,976
Bouquet de marguerites
Patrice Marchal
Painting - 90 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$2,318
Sleeping
Anthony Roaland
Fine Art Drawings - 46 x 64 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 18.1 x 25.2 x 0 inch
$385
Meta Color XIX
Sven Pfrommer
Photography - 70 x 140 x 2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 55.1 x 0.8 inch
$2,816
Roudaki jouant de la harpe
Mohammad Ariyaei
Painting - 70 x 100 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 inch
$3,619
Bruler dans tes yeux
Laurent Anastay-Ponsolle
Painting - 40 x 40 x 3 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 1.2 inch
$1,414
Chanel Kid Cup – Sculpture
Léo & Steph
Sculpture - 55 x 15 x 15 cm Sculpture - 21.7 x 5.9 x 5.9 inch
$11,874
Encrucijadas y revelaciones
Gustavo Díaz Sosa
Painting - 27 x 55 x 1.5 cm Painting - 10.6 x 21.7 x 0.6 inch
$2,375
Trio ours PopArt Basquiat
André Gacko
Sculpture - 86 x 26 x 26 cm Sculpture - 33.9 x 10.2 x 10.2 inch
$4,297
Gathering under umbrellas
Lisa Golightly
Painting - 40 x 40 x 1.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.6 inch
$6,333
Still life
Reynold Arnould
Fine Art Drawings - 11.5 x 16 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 4.5 x 6.3 x 0.1 inch
$339
Where there is love there is Life Gandhi
Gardani Art
Painting - 129.5 x 99.1 x 3.8 cm Painting - 51 x 39 x 1.5 inch
$6,100
Fire not lost
Emily Redd
Fine Art Drawings - 35.6 x 53.3 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 14 x 21 x 0.1 inch
$295
Alambicco Plate for Martini & Rossi
Piero Fornasetti
Design - 23.5 x 23.5 x 4 cm Design - 9.3 x 9.3 x 1.6 inch
$396
Skyphos Plate for Martini & Rossi
Piero Fornasetti
Design - 23.5 x 23.5 x 4 cm Design - 9.3 x 9.3 x 1.6 inch
$385
Servizio Per Porto Plate for Martini & Rossi
Piero Fornasetti
Design - 23.5 x 23.5 x 93 cm Design - 9.3 x 9.3 x 36.6 inch
$396
Carro Vinario Plate for Martini & Rossi
Piero Fornasetti
Design - 23.5 x 23.5 x 4 cm Design - 9.3 x 9.3 x 1.6 inch
$407
Il Primo Tino Plate for Martini & Rossi
Piero Fornasetti
Design - 23.2 x 23.2 x 4 cm Design - 9.1 x 9.1 x 1.6 inch
$396
Porron Plate for Martini & Rossi
Piero Fornasetti
Design - 23.5 x 23.5 x 4 cm Design - 9.3 x 9.3 x 1.6 inch
$396
Rhyton Plate for Martini & Rossi
Piero Fornasetti
Design - 23.5 x 23 x 4 cm Design - 9.3 x 9.1 x 1.6 inch
$396
Trozzella Plate for Martini & Rossi
Piero Fornasetti
Design - 23.5 x 23.5 x 4 cm Design - 9.3 x 9.3 x 1.6 inch
$396
Lipstick Red variation
Marc Ferrero
Painting - 150 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
$73,508
Sketch
Bernard Bécan
Fine Art Drawings - 20 x 26 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.9 x 10.2 x 0 inch
$226
Vies blanches/diptyque
Raphael Scorbiac
Sculpture - 235 x 160 x 30 cm Sculpture - 92.5 x 63 x 11.8 inch
$23,749
Series: Portrait rendering #3
Keita Kushima
Painting - 90 x 70 x 3 cm Painting - 35.4 x 27.6 x 1.2 inch
$4,863
Lola sleeping
Helen Uter
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 40 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$543
Frozen trees 4
Imanol Marrodán
Photography - 20 x 26 x 0.1 cm Photography - 7.9 x 10.2 x 0 inch
$396
Frozen trees 7
Imanol Marrodán
Photography - 20 x 26 x 0.1 cm Photography - 7.9 x 10.2 x 0 inch
$396
Les filles d’honneur... (En scène)
Olivier Messas
Painting - 100 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$3,619
Elles n'ont pas d'épines
Valérie Auriel
Painting - 100 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
$2,737
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!