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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
€480
Frozen trees 4
Imanol Marrodán
Photography - 20 x 26 x 0.1 cm Photography - 7.9 x 10.2 x 0 inch
€350
Frozen trees 7
Imanol Marrodán
Photography - 20 x 26 x 0.1 cm Photography - 7.9 x 10.2 x 0 inch
€350
Surprising news
Haibat Balaa Bawab
Fine Art Drawings - 70 x 100 x 4 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.6 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
€7,470
Chamonix
Paul de Chatelperron
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 36 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 14.2 inch
€360
Grand coupé 5
André Ferrand
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 65 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 25.6 x 0.4 inch
€490
Grand coupé 4
André Ferrand
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 65 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 25.6 x 0.4 inch
€490
The end
Michael Grine
Fine Art Drawings - 121.9 x 193 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 48 x 76 x 0.1 inch
€1,940
Evening talks (Conversations du soir)
Laura Makabresku
Photography - 18 x 30 cm Photography - 7.1 x 11.8 inch
€325
Print Alphabet rehaussé 2
Bows
Fine Art Drawings - 42 x 29.7 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 11.7 x 0.4 inch
€200
Print Alphabet rehaussé 1
Bows
Fine Art Drawings - 42 x 29.7 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 11.7 x 0.4 inch
€200
Zone interdit 3
Dominique Liccia
Fine Art Drawings - 32 x 24 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12.6 x 9.4 x 0 inch
€450
Tête de mule Drouillard
Jean-Robert Drouillard
Sculpture - 38.1 x 12.7 x 9.5 cm Sculpture - 15 x 5 x 3.75 inch
€4,200
Back Street Majorca
Daniel Clarke
Fine Art Drawings - 30.5 x 45.7 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12 x 18 x 0.1 inch
€271
A conversation with a therapist 10
Dzovig Arnelian
Photography - 60 x 40 x 0.5 cm Photography - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0.2 inch
€243
A conversation with a therapist 9
Dzovig Arnelian
Photography - 60 x 40 x 0.5 cm Photography - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0.2 inch
€243
A conversation with a therapist 8
Dzovig Arnelian
Photography - 62 x 40 x 0.5 cm Photography - 24.4 x 15.7 x 0.2 inch
€243
City view, Painting, Watercolor on watercolor paper
Daniel Clarke
Fine Art Drawings - 40.6 x 50.8 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16 x 20 x 0.1 inch
€260
Pas ce que vous pensiez : noir
Eugenia Jaeger
Print - 20.3 x 30.5 x 0.1 cm Print - 8 x 12 x 0 inch
€180
Jenny Owens Birds Series
Jenny Owens
Photography - 15 x 20 x 0.1 cm Photography - 5.9 x 7.9 x 0 inch
€400
Following little p to see the world
Raffaella
Painting - 60.5 x 72.5 x 3 cm Painting - 23.8 x 28.5 x 1.2 inch
€3,000
Triptyque one dollar
Claire Godet
Fine Art Drawings - 19 x 15.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.5 x 6.1 x 0 inch
€50
Paris, couple sur le Pont Neuf
Olivia Bonnamour
Photography - 30 x 45 cm Photography - 11.8 x 17.7 inch
€450
Paris, Beauté et religion dans le Marais
Olivia Bonnamour
Photography - 30 x 45 cm Photography - 11.8 x 17.7 inch
€450
Paris, Jeune homme dans le Marais
Olivia Bonnamour
Photography - 30 x 45 x 1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 17.7 x 0.4 inch
€450
Paris, Jeune couple sur le Pont Neuf
Olivia Bonnamour
Photography - 30 x 45 cm Photography - 11.8 x 17.7 inch
€450
Paris, Couple de japonais aux Palais Royal
Olivia Bonnamour
Photography - 30 x 45 cm Photography - 11.8 x 17.7 inch
€450
New York, Washington Square
Olivia Bonnamour
Photography - 30 x 45 cm Photography - 11.8 x 17.7 inch
€450
Paris, 9e arrondissement 2022
Olivia Bonnamour
Photography - 30 x 40 cm Photography - 11.8 x 15.7 inch
€450
Watching the fireworks
Gordon Barker
Painting - 30.5 x 30.5 x 0.3 cm Painting - 12 x 12 x 0.1 inch
€267
Skating on the pond
Gordon Barker
Painting - 30 x 30 x 0.3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
€267
Fun on a winters day
Gordon Barker
Painting - 30 x 30 x 0.3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
€267
Last train home for the holidays
Gordon Barker
Painting - 40.9 x 40.9 x 0.5 cm Painting - 16.1 x 16.1 x 0.2 inch
€419
What a wonderful tree
Gordon Barker
Painting - 25.4 x 34 x 0.3 cm Painting - 10 x 13.4 x 0.1 inch
€264
Spring landscape Spring view River Nature painting
Irina Pronina
Painting - 49 x 38 cm Painting - 19.3 x 15 inch
€350
Vacationland
Edward Zelinsky
Fine Art Drawings - 55.9 x 76.2 x 0.8 cm Fine Art Drawings - 22 x 30 x 0.3 inch
€374
Space grandfather Wang’s house colour
Raffaella
Painting - 60.5 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 23.8 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
€2,450
La soupirante
Guillaume Lachapelle
Sculpture - 7.9 x 20.1 x 7.1 cm Sculpture - 3.1 x 7.9 x 2.8 inch
€2,400
Balcon mécanique
Guillaume Lachapelle
Sculpture - 25.4 x 20.3 x 15.2 cm Sculpture - 10 x 8 x 6 inch
€3,800
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Bust
Dervis Akdemir
Sculpture - 35 x 23 x 25 cm Sculpture - 13.8 x 9.1 x 9.8 inch
€179
Dante Alighieri Bust
Dervis Akdemir
Sculpture - 19 x 21 x 15 cm Sculpture - 7.5 x 8.3 x 5.9 inch
€105
Miniature Alexander the Great Bust
Dervis Akdemir
Sculpture - 19 x 12 x 12 cm Sculpture - 7.5 x 4.7 x 4.7 inch
€80
White pants, Red bongos 2
Valerie Vescovi
Painting - 30.5 x 30.5 x 2 cm Painting - 12 x 12 x 0.8 inch
€412
Montenegro. Prcanj
Alexander Shandor
Painting - 60 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
€2,910
Chromatic butterfly - white
Federico Cortese
Painting - 19.8 x 39.9 x 1.5 cm Painting - 7.8 x 15.7 x 0.6 inch
€281
Golden Glory: The David with mask
Dervis Akdemir
Sculpture - 34 x 15 x 15 cm Sculpture - 13.4 x 5.9 x 5.9 inch
€345
Imperial Strength: The Marcus Aurelius Bust
Dervis Akdemir
Sculpture - 25 x 15 x 4 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 5.9 x 1.6 inch
€259
Faces of health: The multi-faceted hygieia decor
Dervis Akdemir
Sculpture - 33 x 20 x 20 cm Sculpture - 13 x 7.9 x 7.9 inch
€197
Winged Wonder: Hermes god sculpture
Dervis Akdemir
Sculpture - 41 x 18 x 15 cm Sculpture - 16.1 x 7.1 x 5.9 inch
€247
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!