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Hat and Gloves Silhouette
Tyler Shields
Photography - 76.2 x 76.2 cm Photography - 30 x 30 inch
$5,000
Contemporary portrait Entomological Collection
Nataliya Bagatskaya
Painting - 80 x 60 x 1.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.6 inch
$1,478
La Bouée - Série village de belle-île-en-mer
Yves Guillard
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,131
Marée basse - Série village et port de Belle-île-en-mer
Yves Guillard
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,705
Les quais - Série village et port de Belle-île-en-mer
Yves Guillard
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,705
Sauzon - Série village et port de Belle-île-en-mer
Yves Guillard
Painting - 100 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
$1,705
Le Palais - Série village et port de Belle-île-en-mer
Yves Guillard
Painting - 100 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
$2,131
Orpheus and Eurydice (S)
Tyler Shields
Photography - 50.8 x 76.2 cm Photography - 20 x 30 inch
$5,000
Lovely garden daisies
Elena Lukina
Painting - 50 x 39 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,046
Lumière du matin... (Esprit Voile)
Olivier Messas
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,137
Wounded Birds
Ritchelly Oliveira
Painting - 186 x 141 x 3 cm Painting - 73.2 x 55.5 x 1.2 inch
$20,848
White Pigeons in Love
Tamar Nazaryan
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$350
Variations colorées
Sylvie Julkowski-Egard
Painting - 90 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,989
A glimpse into rural tranquility
Narek Qochunc
Painting - 24 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 9.4 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$199
The Unknowability of The Other
Julia Swaby
Painting - 100 x 162 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 63.8 x 1.6 inch
$6,417
Tulum nights #2
Hugo Gus Babey
Photography - 100 x 150 x 0.2 cm Photography - 39.4 x 59.1 x 0.1 inch
$1,137
Heaven. Scent Collection
Tuba Onder Demircioglu
Sculpture - 43 x 25 x 26 cm Sculpture - 16.9 x 9.8 x 10.2 inch
$7,957
Nr 5 marble bottle
Phantom Art
Sculpture - 36 x 21 x 8.5 cm Sculpture - 14.2 x 8.3 x 3.3 inch
$5,627
Palazzo Grimani, Male Center
Magda Von Hanau
Photography - 121.9 x 81.3 x 0.3 cm Photography - 48 x 32 x 0.1 inch
$4,000
Titty et Coucou au marché, Saint-Denis
Enfant Précoce / Francis Essoua Kalu
Painting - 180 x 156 x 2 cm Painting - 70.9 x 61.4 x 0.8 inch
$15,915
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
$7,389
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
$10,004
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
$12,845
Hotel Chelsea, New York. Room 622
Victoria Cohen
Photography - 67.6 x 101.6 x 0.3 cm Photography - 26.6 x 40 x 0.1 inch
$3,200
Hotel Chelsea, New York. Room 822
Victoria Cohen
Photography - 50.8 x 76.2 x 0.3 cm Photography - 20 x 30 x 0.1 inch
$2,300
Hotel Chelsea, New York. Room 712
Victoria Cohen
Photography - 67.6 x 101.6 x 0.3 cm Photography - 26.6 x 40 x 0.1 inch
$3,200
China. Peking. Cotton mill nursery
Eve Arnold
Photography - 30.5 x 40.6 x 5.1 cm Photography - 12 x 16 x 2 inch
$2,350
Red White and Blue (L)
Tyler Shields
Photography - 114.3 x 114.3 cm Photography - 45 x 45 inch
$10,000
Shadow Guzzler nr. 2
Marek Uhlir
Painting - 70.1 x 59.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 23.6 x 1 inch
$750
Two Glasses of Champagne Silhouette
Tyler Shields
Photography - 76.2 x 76.2 cm Photography - 30 x 30 inch
$5,000
Village in Snow - 7651203
Simeon Posen
Photography - 50.8 x 61 x 5.1 cm Photography - 20 x 24 x 2 inch
$3,350
Tokyo
Raynald Najosky
Photography - 40 x 60 x 1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
$1,819 $1,637
Femme au temple
Raynald Najosky
Photography - 56 x 40 x 1 cm Photography - 22 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
$1,250
The portrait (after giles deacon) forbidden collage (4)
Julien Delagrange
Fine Art Drawings - 110.2 x 80.1 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 43.4 x 31.5 x 0 inch
$4,638
Hiding Places - series Bunnies
Les Panchyshyn
Painting - 70 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,501
Special one - series Bunnies
Les Panchyshyn
Painting - 70 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,501
Hotel Chelsea, New York. Room 123
Victoria Cohen
Photography - 50.8 x 76.2 x 0.3 cm Photography - 20 x 30 x 0.1 inch
$2,300
Silence, the Taylor Swift's Show Begins (Silence, le Spectacle de Taylor Swift Commence)
Bruno Cantais
Sculpture - 27 x 7 x 8 cm Sculpture - 10.6 x 2.8 x 3.1 inch
$222
Hotel Chelsea, New York. Third Floor, South
Victoria Cohen
Photography - 67.6 x 101.6 x 0.3 cm Photography - 26.6 x 40 x 0.1 inch
$3,200
White Serenity
Amaury Maillet
Sculpture - 18 x 130 x 130 cm Sculpture - 7.1 x 51.2 x 51.2 inch
$5,273
Round Square All White
Amaury Maillet
Sculpture - 90 x 80 x 70 cm Sculpture - 35.4 x 31.5 x 27.6 inch
$3,003
White Mastodonte Under Red Moon
Amaury Maillet
Sculpture - 55 x 70 x 50 cm Sculpture - 21.7 x 27.6 x 19.7 inch
$3,003
Against the Stream
Serhii Cherniakovskyi
Painting - 75 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 29.5 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$3,183
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!