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![Painting, East side, Mea Ambrozo](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2208131_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Dance floor, Mea Ambrozo](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2208130_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Exotic, Mea Ambrozo](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2208129_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Sonate crépusculaire, Bernard Gaulbert](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2202984_1_grid.jpg)
Sonate crépusculaire
Bernard Gaulbert
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€1,800
![Sculpture, Ours polaire assis (pm) 7/8, Isabelle Carabantes](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2196160_1_grid.jpg)
Ours polaire assis (pm) 7/8
Isabelle Carabantes
Sculpture - 37 x 25 x 22 cm Sculpture - 14.6 x 9.8 x 8.7 inch
€7,200
![Sculpture, Journey III, Akie Abe](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2193232_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Journey II, Akie Abe](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2193231_1_grid.jpg)
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![Print, Éclats, Zao Wou-Ki](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1176339_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc (Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print), Slim Aarons](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/881694_1_grid.jpg)
Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc (Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print)
Slim Aarons
Photography - 152.4 x 101.6 cm Photography - 60 x 40 inch
€3,690
![Painting, 9/10 Spectrum, Piril Torgut](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2205181_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, CTRTN-21, Martin Singer](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2202694_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Break the silence, Isabelle Scheltjens](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2201918_1_grid.jpg)
Break the silence
Isabelle Scheltjens
Painting - 144 x 112 x 4.5 cm Painting - 56.7 x 44.1 x 1.8 inch
€19,500
![Painting, 2R1T-21, Martin Singer](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2201540_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, 2CB-22, Martin Singer](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2200791_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, TCTN-23, Martin Singer](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2200668_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Oceani Mentali n°6, Luca Izzo](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2198254_1_grid.jpg)
Oceani Mentali n°6
Luca Izzo
Photography - 70 x 50 x 0.4 cm Photography - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.2 inch
€350
![Photography, Oceani Mentali n°3, Luca Izzo](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2198245_1_grid.jpg)
Oceani Mentali n°3
Luca Izzo
Photography - 50 x 70 x 0.4 cm Photography - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.2 inch
€350
![Photography, Staying at the Carlton, Slim Aarons](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1365774_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Une touche de modernité, Eric Munsch](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1232019_1_grid.jpg)
Une touche de modernité
Eric Munsch
Painting - 73 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,050 €945
![Painting, Fourure, Eric Doisy](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2187401_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Personajes en blanco y negro, Enrique Pichardo](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2153798_1_grid.jpg)
Personajes en blanco y negro
Enrique Pichardo
Painting - 50 x 70 x 1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch
€605
![Painting, Sheep, Menashe Kadishman](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1963512_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, All Things Begin and End in Eternity, Carrie Graber](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1316880_1_grid.jpg)
All Things Begin and End in Eternity
Carrie Graber
Print - 101.6 x 38.1 cm Print - 40 x 15 inch
€1,091
![Painting, Waterfall of the Cyan Hills, Zhize Lv](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2204766_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Smoky Clouds in Lake and Mountains, Zhize Lv](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2204765_1_grid.jpg)
Smoky Clouds in Lake and Mountains
Zhize Lv
Painting - 69 x 34.5 cm Painting - 27.2 x 13.6 inch
€437
![Painting, La tricoteuse, Moreno Pincas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2198533_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Elegance unfolding, Marieta Martirosyan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2172769_1_grid.jpg)
Elegance unfolding
Marieta Martirosyan
Painting - 80 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
€969
![Photography, Nocturnal, Amrita Bilimoria](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2211920_1_grid.jpg)
Nocturnal
Amrita Bilimoria
Photography - 101.6 x 152.4 x 0.5 cm Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.2 inch
€3,007
![Fine Art Drawings, Drawing 427, Sumit Mehndiratta](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2126646_1_grid.jpg)
Drawing 427
Sumit Mehndiratta
Fine Art Drawings - 41 x 58 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.1 x 22.8 x 0.4 inch
€600
![Fine Art Drawings, Drawing 426, Sumit Mehndiratta](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2126631_1_grid.jpg)
Drawing 426
Sumit Mehndiratta
Fine Art Drawings - 58 x 41 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 22.8 x 16.1 x 0.4 inch
€600
![Fine Art Drawings, Composition No. 385, Sumit Mehndiratta](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1589058_1_grid.jpg)
Composition No. 385
Sumit Mehndiratta
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 46 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 18.1 x 0.4 inch
€750
![Painting, Composition No. 323, Sumit Mehndiratta](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1534263_1_grid.jpg)
Composition No. 323
Sumit Mehndiratta
Painting - 30.5 x 30.5 x 0.1 cm Painting - 12 x 12 x 0 inch
€700
![Fine Art Drawings, Drawing 335, Sumit Mehndiratta](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1529148_1_grid.jpg)
Drawing 335
Sumit Mehndiratta
Fine Art Drawings - 76.2 x 56 x 0.02 cm Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 22 x 0 inch
€700
![Sculpture, Cycles X, Philip Hearsey](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1358190_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Covers 13 Red 2, Joanne Freeman](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1303554_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Composition No.252, Sumit Mehndiratta](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1264668_1_grid.jpg)
Composition No.252
Sumit Mehndiratta
Painting - 63 x 41 x 0.1 cm Painting - 24.8 x 16.1 x 0 inch
€500
![Painting, Victoria, Marieta Benegas Lynch](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2194949_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, No regret, Cynthia Coulombe-Bégin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2194610_1_grid.jpg)
No regret
Cynthia Coulombe-Bégin
Painting - 121.9 x 121.9 x 3.8 cm Painting - 48 x 48 x 1.5 inch
€3,638
![Painting, Movies (E.A.), The Catman](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2192495_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Santorini Magic, Sokratis Evgenidis](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2192348_1_grid.jpg)
Santorini Magic
Sokratis Evgenidis
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
€5,500
![Fine Art Drawings, Greeting from : another adventure in human error, Mr Popart](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2182441_1_grid.jpg)
Greeting from : another adventure in human error
Mr Popart
Fine Art Drawings - 6.5 x 15 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 2.6 x 5.9 x 0 inch
€120
![Painting, Great Ebony, Alessandra Bisi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2181475_1_grid.jpg)
![Design, Voiles (1), Alice Aladjem](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2089710_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Hidden place, Nicolas Ruelle](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1732947_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Domenica, Pipi Pírez](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1416741_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Animal instinct, Artwho's](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2195837_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Fissure, Kat Zhivetin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2193851_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Soft abstraction VI, Tamara Bakhshinyan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2142204_1_grid.jpg)
Soft abstraction VI
Tamara Bakhshinyan
Painting - 100 x 150 x 3.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 1.4 inch
€2,600 €2,340
![Painting, Automne #4, Laure-Anne Lemaire](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2127487_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, 10th Anniversary, André Saraiva](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1197276_1_grid.jpg)
10th Anniversary
André Saraiva
Fine Art Drawings - 27 x 18.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10.6 x 7.3 inch
€2,000
![Painting, C4B-21, Martin Singer](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2203812_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, CCCN-23, Martin Singer](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2203155_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, 2BS-20, Martin Singer](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2201533_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, 3T-24, Martin Singer](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2200380_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Untitled, Ramon Aguilar Moré](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2198426_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Stella terra, Alessandra Bisi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2181454_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Through the Pale Twilit Meadows, Katharina Husslein](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2157104_1_grid.jpg)
Through the Pale Twilit Meadows
Katharina Husslein
Painting - 120 x 140 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 55.1 x 1.2 inch
€3,700
![Painting, Piste blanche, Ralph Resch](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1790622_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Dreamland, Maria Esmar](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1725195_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Geo Tracciati, Alessandra Bisi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1148766_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Hiver, Michaël Brack](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/685812_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Canopy path, Alvaro Petritoli](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2198566_1_grid.jpg)
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![Painting, Blooming spring, Genia Sheyn](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2186869_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Untitled 35, Imad Fakhry](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2182421_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Manteau de neige, Sophie Zénon](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2182411_1_grid.jpg)
Manteau de neige
Sophie Zénon
Sculpture - 134 x 69 x 52 cm Sculpture - 52.8 x 27.2 x 20.5 inch
€20,000
![Painting, Et apres ?, Emmanuelle Vroelant](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2166477_1_grid.jpg)
Et apres ?
Emmanuelle Vroelant
Painting - 80 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
€3,800 €3,420
![Photography, Speckled Crest, Drew Doggett](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2101527_1_grid.jpg)
Speckled Crest
Drew Doggett
Photography - 45.7 x 68.6 x 0.3 cm Photography - 18 x 27 x 0.1 inch
€1,843
![Print, Courbe commune, Pierre Alechinsky](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2094735_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Le chat sauvage, Pierre Alechinsky](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2094699_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, L'esprit incisif, Emmanuelle Vroelant](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1997955_1_grid.jpg)
L'esprit incisif
Emmanuelle Vroelant
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
€3,600 €3,240
![Print, A un passo dal cielo, Walter Valentini](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1728327_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Alerte, Emmanuelle Vroelant](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1467930_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Composition No.144, Sumit Mehndiratta](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/679215_1_grid.jpg)
Composition No.144
Sumit Mehndiratta
Painting - 94 x 152 x 4 cm Painting - 37 x 59.8 x 1.6 inch
€1,450
![Print, Sensory deprivation, Milkbox](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2199234_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Betty Blue, Chloé Kaemmerer](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2197834_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Detrás de máscaras, Patricia Restrepo](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2194421_1_grid.jpg)
Detrás de máscaras
Patricia Restrepo
Painting - 60.96 x 50.8 x 3 cm Painting - 24 x 20 x 1.2 inch
€5,350
![Photography, Reflections of Modernity: Abstract Impressions at Mies van der Rohe Pavilion, Daniel Holfeld](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2193912_1_grid.jpg)
Reflections of Modernity: Abstract Impressions at Mies van der Rohe Pavilion
Daniel Holfeld
Photography - 20 x 30 cm Photography - 7.9 x 11.8 inch
€600
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![Design, 3D Little Big Space, Invader](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1613049_1_grid.jpg)
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![Painting, Incident de couleurs, Hervé Souffi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2199847_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Planète Mélancolie - livre d’artiste (7), Julie Ruelle](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2194398_1_grid.jpg)
Planète Mélancolie - livre d’artiste (7)
Julie Ruelle
Print - 28 x 20 x 2.5 cm Print - 11 x 7.9 x 1 inch
€500
![Print, Planète Mélancolie - livre d’artiste (6), Julie Ruelle](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2194397_1_grid.jpg)
Planète Mélancolie - livre d’artiste (6)
Julie Ruelle
Print - 28 x 20 x 2.5 cm Print - 11 x 7.9 x 1 inch
€500
![Print, Souffler le chaud 1, Jazzu](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2175253_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Never another word, Mercedes Lagunas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2157401_1_grid.jpg)
Never another word
Mercedes Lagunas
Painting - 150 x 150 x 0.1 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 0 inch
€2,804
![Photography, Torrent36_8617, Yasuo Kiyonaga](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1940712_1_grid.jpg)
Torrent36_8617
Yasuo Kiyonaga
Photography - 32.9 x 48.3 x 0.1 cm Photography - 13 x 19 x 0 inch
€720
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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!