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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
$2,740
La soupirante
Guillaume Lachapelle
Sculpture - 7.9 x 20.1 x 7.1 cm Sculpture - 3.1 x 7.9 x 2.8 inch
$2,684
Balcon mécanique
Guillaume Lachapelle
Sculpture - 25.4 x 20.3 x 15.2 cm Sculpture - 10 x 8 x 6 inch
$4,250
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Bust
Dervis Akdemir
Sculpture - 35 x 23 x 25 cm Sculpture - 13.8 x 9.1 x 9.8 inch
$192
Dante Alighieri Bust
Dervis Akdemir
Sculpture - 19 x 21 x 15 cm Sculpture - 7.5 x 8.3 x 5.9 inch
$113
Miniature Alexander the Great Bust
Dervis Akdemir
Sculpture - 19 x 12 x 12 cm Sculpture - 7.5 x 4.7 x 4.7 inch
$86
White pants, Red bongos 2
Valerie Vescovi
Painting - 30.5 x 30.5 x 2 cm Painting - 12 x 12 x 0.8 inch
$425
Montenegro. Prcanj
Alexander Shandor
Painting - 60 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$3,000
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
$290
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
$371
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
$278
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
$212
Winged Wonder: Hermes god sculpture
Dervis Akdemir
Sculpture - 41 x 18 x 15 cm Sculpture - 16.1 x 7.1 x 5.9 inch
$265
The forward march loses ground
Jessica Houston
Photography - 53.3 x 83.8 x 2.5 cm Photography - 21 x 33 x 1 inch
$3,020
Ignition
The Catman
Fine Art Drawings - 100 x 70 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$324
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
$134
Reference Woman #2
Guillaume Piot
Fine Art Drawings - 45 x 33 cm Fine Art Drawings - 17.7 x 13 inch
$895
Reference Woman #1
Guillaume Piot
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 40 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 15.7 inch
$895
Draperies VIII
Madar Lili Adrienn
Painting - 140 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 55.1 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$2,461
Miami heat kid cup
Léo & Steph
Sculpture - 50 x 14 x 14 cm Sculpture - 19.7 x 5.5 x 5.5 inch
$12,303
Conversation with wave and the moon
Sokratis Evgenidis
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$7,717
Aperapinkturtle and minimo
Aperato
Sculpture - 20 x 24 x 15 cm Sculpture - 7.9 x 9.4 x 5.9 inch
$3,244
Seesaw rm 05_chrysanthemum
Giljung Yoon
Print - 45 x 45 x 2 cm Print - 17.7 x 17.7 x 0.8 inch
$3,635
Benoît le chanceux
Guillaume Piot
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 65 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 25.6 inch
$1,678
Bonjour Tristesse
Guillaume Piot
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 inch
$1,678
En campagne
Guillaume Piot
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 65 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 25.6 inch
$1,678
Aux Innocents les mains pleines.
Guillaume Piot
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 65 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 25.6 inch
$1,678
Roasted fish head and tail
Vyusal Rain
Painting - 25.4 x 30.5 x 2 cm Painting - 10 x 12 x 0.8 inch
$140
Dreaming water mountains
Francesca Borgo
Painting - 166 x 140 x 4 cm Painting - 65.4 x 55.1 x 1.6 inch
$7,090
Les chiens
Olivier Tenedor
Fine Art Drawings - 60 x 42 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 23.6 x 16.5 x 0.4 inch
$280
Futura white wedding
Alla Grande
Sculpture - 27 x 37 x 9 cm Sculpture - 10.6 x 14.6 x 3.5 inch
$3,244
L'amoureuse
Fabienne Bonneau (Fablues)
Painting - 29.7 x 21 x 0.01 cm Painting - 11.7 x 8.3 x 0 inch
$280
Etude pour les desseins
J/Y Delaunay-Israël
Fine Art Drawings - 49 x 84 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.3 x 33.1 x 0.4 inch
$559
Écharpe noire et blanche 238 ref BDNW11904
Atelier Vionnet
Fine Art Drawings - 27 x 21 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10.6 x 8.3 inch
$358
Écharpe noire et blanche 34 ref BDNW11701
Atelier Vionnet
Fine Art Drawings - 27 x 21 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10.6 x 8.3 inch
$358
Silhouette emballée et contaminée (Hélène)
Jean-Robert Drouillard
Sculpture - 175.3 x 44.5 x 40.6 cm Sculpture - 69 x 17.5 x 16 inch
$12,303
Silhouette emballée et contaminée (Rosalie)
Jean-Robert Drouillard
Sculpture - 156.2 x 41.9 x 43.2 cm Sculpture - 61.5 x 16.5 x 17 inch
$11,185
Silhouette emballée et contaminée (son mari)
Jean-Robert Drouillard
Sculpture - 174 x 76.2 x 43.2 cm Sculpture - 68.5 x 30 x 17 inch
$13,422
100 Marches #13 Eating
Hégémon (Hedge) Chaignon
Photography - 50 x 70 cm Photography - 19.7 x 27.6 inch
$951
Melting snow
Victor Roschkov
Fine Art Drawings - 27.9 x 54.6 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11 x 21.5 x 0.1 inch
$418
Colonial doorway
Luis Alberto Quispe
Fine Art Drawings - 18 x 13 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.1 x 5.1 x 0.2 inch
$313
May be I don't want to die
Luca Brandi
Painting - 60 x 40 x 2.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 15.7 x 1 inch
$3,985
Paris Eiffel Tower #1 - Shoulder sitting
Hégémon (Hedge) Chaignon
Photography - 70 x 70 x 0.1 cm Photography - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$1,230
Jeune femme au transat
Sophie de la Happy Funky Family
Painting - 20 x 20 x 2 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.8 inch
$503
Two Penguins
Dr Sanjay Arora
Photography - 40 x 60 x 2 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,964
Stage Dance
Dr Sanjay Arora
Photography - 40 x 60 x 2 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,964
The end of where it all started
Max Baris
Painting - 80 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$5,369
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!