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Sagamore short bowl Tondo Doni
Mario Cioni
Design - 9 x 30 x 30 cm Design - 3.5 x 11.8 x 11.8 inch
$893
Urban Patterns-Village St.
Carl McGrady
Painting - 61 x 61 x 2.5 cm Painting - 24 x 24 x 1 inch
$2,500
Fight AIDS (after Keith Haring)
Keith Haring
Design - 80.5 x 20.5 x 1.2 cm Design - 31.7 x 8.1 x 0.5 inch
$279
Crack Down (after Keith Haring)
Keith Haring
Design - 80.5 x 20.5 x 1.2 cm Design - 31.7 x 8.1 x 0.5 inch
$279
Tempted
Michael Grine
Fine Art Drawings - 76.2 x 58.42 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 23 x 0 inch
$1,000
Douce Insomnie
Jeanne Saint-Chéron
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$3,907
The Prince
Andreas Sundgren
Photography - 105 x 140 x 0.1 cm Photography - 41.3 x 55.1 x 0 inch
$3,402
A letter to my lost childhood
Solomon Jamy Brown
Photography - 100 x 70 cm Photography - 39.4 x 27.6 inch
$2,791
Mika Hakkinen. Monaco. F1. Tout prêt des rails
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 70 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,563 $1,407
Poules et poulailler. Sénégal
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 90 x 70 x 2 cm Photography - 35.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$893 $759
Girafe et ses poursuivants. Parc de Tarangire. Tanzanie
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 70 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$893 $759
Seul dans la savane. Parc du Ngorongoro. Tanzanie
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 70 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$893 $759
Tigre du Bengale. Inde
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 90 x 70 x 2 cm Photography - 35.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$893
Girafe et girafon. Tanzanie
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 70 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$893 $759
Nostalgie - Portrait de femme
Glad_is_murmuring
Painting - 20 x 20 x 1 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.4 inch
$156
Hollypop 4
Iva Ivanova
Fine Art Drawings - 29 x 21 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.4 x 8.3 x 0 inch
$279
Lucilla Table Lamp
Gianfranco Frattini
Design - 55 x 49 x 49 cm Design - 21.7 x 19.3 x 19.3 inch
$2,791
Golden streak Artemis
Dervis Akdemir
Sculpture - 32 x 18 x 14 cm Sculpture - 12.6 x 7.1 x 5.5 inch
$262
Medusas’ protective gaze
Dervis Akdemir
Sculpture - 31 x 23 x 15 cm Sculpture - 12.2 x 9.1 x 5.9 inch
$262
Land Rover - Surf's up
Nick Veasey
Photography - 61 x 118 x 1 cm Photography - 24 x 46.5 x 0.4 inch
$15,628
Trio ours Keith Haring co n° 2
André Gacko
Sculpture - 80 x 25 x 23 cm Sculpture - 31.5 x 9.8 x 9.1 inch
$4,130
Crépuscule des Loups
Christine Pultz
Painting - 73 x 92 x 3 cm Painting - 28.7 x 36.2 x 1.2 inch
$6,698
Sans Titre 18 - Ref BDNW9160
Jean-Pierre Stora
Painting - 11 x 29 cm Painting - 4.3 x 11.4 inch
$324
Sans Titre 17 - Ref BDNW9159
Jean-Pierre Stora
Painting - 16 x 32 cm Painting - 6.3 x 12.6 inch
$502
Sans Titre 4 - Ref BDNW9146
Jean-Pierre Stora
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 18 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 7.1 inch
$391
Sans Titre 8 - Ref BDNW9150
Jean-Pierre Stora
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 18 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 7.1 inch
$391
Sans Titre 9 - Ref BDNW9151
Jean-Pierre Stora
Fine Art Drawings - 16 x 31 cm Fine Art Drawings - 6.3 x 12.2 inch
$502
Sans Titre 15 - Ref BDNW9157
Jean-Pierre Stora
Fine Art Drawings - 16 x 21 cm Fine Art Drawings - 6.3 x 8.3 inch
$324
Temporal Disorder - 17
Radu Corneliu Sarion
Photography - 40 x 50 x 0.2 cm Photography - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$558
Sans Titre (Ma pensée comme une comédie)
Christos Kalfas
Fine Art Drawings - 103 x 67 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 40.6 x 26.4 x 0.1 inch
$2,791
Esprits d'Amour
Emilie Teillaud
Painting - 162 x 114 x 3 cm Painting - 63.8 x 44.9 x 1.2 inch
$5,023
La passerelle
Georges Laporte
Fine Art Drawings - 37 x 23.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 14.6 x 9.3 inch
$391
La chapelle
Georges Laporte
Fine Art Drawings - 35 x 26 cm Fine Art Drawings - 13.8 x 10.2 inch
$391
Flou sur Ayrton Senna McLaren
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 60 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,674
Architecture et goélands
Lionel le Jeune
Photography - 60 x 60 x 0.4 cm Photography - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.2 inch
$726
Stone the Crows
Izabela Apananska
Painting - 90 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
$4,242
Untitled, in reference to Rene Magritte
Izabela Apananska
Painting - 80 x 115 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 45.3 x 0.8 inch
$3,349
Pete Townshend – Smoking Joint, Twickenham, London, 1977
David Steen
Photography - 111 x 78 x 0.01 cm Photography - 43.7 x 30.7 x 0 inch
$3,215
Beginning of creation
Beatus Hofrichter
Sculpture - 45 x 45 x 60 cm Sculpture - 17.7 x 17.7 x 23.6 inch
$32,037
Afloat...Voyage of tears
Beatus Hofrichter
Sculpture - 18 x 58 x 18.5 cm Sculpture - 7.1 x 22.8 x 7.3 inch
$6,809
Le sourire du Joker
Philippe Viejo
Painting - 90 x 90 x 0.5 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 0.2 inch
$4,019
Der duft der kurkuma
Sasa Makarova
Painting - 100 x 120 x 5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 2 inch
$15,628
Sweet forest D
Karenina Fabrizzi
Painting - 160 x 200 x 3.5 cm Painting - 63 x 78.7 x 1.4 inch
$4,108
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!