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Her Softness
Kirill Postovit
Painting - 100 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,683 $1,027
Incision I
Jean-Michel Zazzi
Painting - 120 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$1,683 $1,262
Love turtle pink
Diederik Van Apple
Sculpture - 25 x 25 x 40 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 9.8 x 15.7 inch
$1,234
Compo ivoire et bleue
Bernard Neulat
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$561
Contemporary portrait "Cat Country"
Nataliya Bagatskaya
Painting - 90 x 55 x 1.8 cm Painting - 35.4 x 21.7 x 0.7 inch
$2,233
Majesty in Monochrome
Tamar Nazaryan
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,200
Power Ball
Jessica Renault jrbrush
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.37 x 39.37 x 1 inch
$2,244
Blooming Grace
Kayimahe Ishmael Zed
Painting - 89.9 x 70.1 x 2.5 cm Painting - 35.4 x 27.6 x 1 inch
$1,750
Variations cinétiques 3
Piero Cipolat
Painting - 50 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
$1,313
Con el coco rapado
Jean-Marc Calvet
Painting - 65 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$2,244
Fantasia
Laurence Hubswerlin Diradourian
Painting - 120 x 40 x 2.5 cm Painting - 47.2 x 15.7 x 1 inch
$1,728
Regarder le temps passer
Ben
Fine Art Drawings - 27 x 23.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10.6 x 9.3 inch
$4,488
Ochestrale mecanique
Muriel Charbonnier
Painting - 60 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
$1,318
Neue Kammern Enfilade V. From the Neue Kammern Enfilades series
Celia Rogge
Photography - 182.9 x 121.9 x 0.3 cm Photography - 72 x 48 x 0.1 inch
$9,875
La dormeuse
Magdalena Lamri
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 30 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$1,212
Polo Party - Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print
Slim Aarons
Photography - 76.2 x 101.6 cm Photography - 30 x 40 inch
$3,702
Take a walk in the wild side
Edu Danesi
Painting - 115 x 80 x 5 cm Painting - 45.3 x 31.5 x 2 inch
$4,207
Topographie végétale (2)
Sophie Zénon
Sculpture - 50 x 15 x 15 cm Sculpture - 19.7 x 5.9 x 5.9 inch
$2,468
Sans titre
Vassily Kandinsky
Fine Art Drawings - 31 x 49 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12.2 x 19.3 inch
$67,314
Descendent - Lucid Dreamer
James Jean
Sculpture - 32 x 15 x 15 cm Sculpture - 12.6 x 5.9 x 5.9 inch
$2,019
Untitled 1
David Paul Kay
Fine Art Drawings - 16 x 16 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 6.3 x 6.3 x 0 inch
$673 $572
Lustgarten 05
Lidia Masllorens
Photography - 45 x 32 x 4 cm Photography - 17.7 x 12.6 x 1.6 inch
$5,049
The little white butterflies
Alla Grande
Painting - 100 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$2,244
Le Moulin de la galette
Joseph Piermatteo
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$3,590
The Lady with The LV Bag and The Pink Moon
Carmen Carpena
Painting - 61 x 46 cm Painting - 24 x 18.1 inch
$1,683
Osmose - série sculpture et corps en matière
Jf Carer
Sculpture - 79 x 31 x 31 cm Sculpture - 31.1 x 12.2 x 12.2 inch
$11,780
Gliding Towards Tomorrow
Kpe Innocent
Painting - 80 x 80 x 5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 2 inch
$5,049
Behind the mask
Grégoire Devin
Painting - 213.4 x 213.4 x 5.1 cm Painting - 84 x 84 x 2 inch
$20,400
Vegas pop art black fashion
Christophe Comerro
Sculpture - 41 x 30 x 45 cm Sculpture - 16.1 x 11.8 x 17.7 inch
$1,324
Jerrican chanel white
Ghost Art
Sculpture - 52 x 44 x 19 cm Sculpture - 20.5 x 17.3 x 7.5 inch
$2,580
Gontran (hommage à Modrian)
Flo Hombecq
Sculpture - 36 x 15 x 15 cm Sculpture - 14.2 x 5.9 x 5.9 inch
$1,066
Inconnu
Sonic (Jesse Rodriguez)
Painting - 27 x 116 x 0.3 cm Painting - 10.6 x 45.7 x 0.1 inch
$1,683 $1,515
Untitled
Montserrat Gudiol
Fine Art Drawings - 64 x 48 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.2 x 18.9 x 0 inch
$4,263
La Fille au Coq ou Belarus
Svetlana Maksimenko
Painting - 80 x 60 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 inch
$2,777
Elegance Rider
Shahen Aleksandryan
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,200
Palazzo Grimani, Female Center
Magda Von Hanau
Photography - 121.9 x 81.3 x 0.3 cm Photography - 48 x 32 x 0.1 inch
$4,000
My Real Doggs (RIP Nate Doggs)
Mark Drew
Painting - 152.4 x 152.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 60 x 60 x 1.5 inch
$30,000
Sass Mousse, Réalisé sans violence envers les élastiques
ROWIN ATELIER
Design - 52 x 15 x 5 cm Design - 20.5 x 5.9 x 2 inch
$1,010
Cup of coffee and tangerine
Irina Trushkova
Painting - 25 x 35 x 2 cm Painting - 9.8 x 13.8 x 0.8 inch
$1,571
Invader Marilyn urban wall
Lasveguix
Painting - 61 x 46 x 3 cm Painting - 24 x 18.1 x 1.2 inch
$1,010
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!