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Rose épanouie
Françoise De Beaucé
Painting - 81 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 31.9 x 39.4 x 1 inch
€4,900
Tingari cycle (RT03/0611BPG)
Ronnie Tjampitjinpa
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 1.9 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 0.75 inch
€12,127
Heartfelt Blooming Bear
Blooming Bears
Sculpture - 32 x 18 x 12 cm Sculpture - 12.6 x 7.1 x 4.7 inch
€3,638
Ring-shin Gold
Teruri Yamawaki
Sculpture - 45 x 34 x 30 cm Sculpture - 17.7 x 13.4 x 11.8 inch
€3,275
Wave touch of gold
Ans Pullens
Sculpture - 95 x 75 x 12 cm Sculpture - 37.4 x 29.5 x 4.7 inch
€5,948
3 figures, 2 umbrellas
Steven Boksenbaum
Painting - 25.4 x 20.3 x 1.5 cm Painting - 10 x 8 x 0.6 inch
€407
Afro blue - Série Street-art
Glad_is_murmuring
Painting - 30 x 30 x 1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
€200
Mujer con guitarra
Francisca Morales Alliende
Painting - 34 x 49 x 1 cm Painting - 13.4 x 19.3 x 0.4 inch
€3,411
Portrait of a Boy
Anthony Roaland
Fine Art Drawings - 41 x 30 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.1 x 11.8 x 0 inch
€380
Movimientos geometricos 3
Benbela Abounassif
Sculpture - 48 x 48 x 4 cm Sculpture - 18.9 x 18.9 x 1.6 inch
€5,000
Przywilej (privilege)
Bartlomiej Zalucki
Painting - 100 x 100 x 1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
€2,850
Bateau à sec sur le lac Baïkal
Christophe Gibourg
Photography - 100 x 100 x 1 cm Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
€750
El túnel
Jordi Valls Capell
Photography - 100 x 150 x 1 cm Photography - 39.4 x 59.1 x 0.4 inch
€7,815
Suite Rimbaud 2
Gabor Breznay
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 21 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 8.3 x 0.4 inch
€450
La travesía del funámbulo
Concha García
Sculpture - 12 x 22 x 10 cm Sculpture - 4.7 x 8.7 x 3.9 inch
€2,400
Parallel lives, Painting, Oil on canvas
Bronle Crosby
Painting - 121.9 x 121.9 x 7.6 cm Painting - 48 x 48 x 3 inch
€6,937
Series: Portrait rendering #1
Keita Kushima
Painting - 90 x 70 x 3 cm Painting - 35.4 x 27.6 x 1.2 inch
€4,300
Madame et Monsieur
Lætitia Disone
Sculpture - 46 x 64 x 3 cm Sculpture - 18.1 x 25.2 x 1.2 inch
€9,500
The Feast of Trimalchio
AES + F
Photography - 42 x 55.5 x 1 cm Photography - 16.5 x 21.9 x 0.4 inch
€3,000
Milk glass vases
Bennett Vadnais
Painting - 28 x 35.5 x 1.27 cm Painting - 11 x 14 x 0.5 inch
€5,000
Sans Titre (Un poème dans chaque livre Paul Eluard) Ref BDNW2910
Oscar Dominguez
Print - 32 x 46.5 cm Print - 12.6 x 18.3 inch
€9,500
Kore's Head Couple
Nicola D'Antino
Sculpture - 30 x 20 x 38 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 7.9 x 15 inch
€32,000
Terrasse enneigée à Venise
Aimé Venel
Painting - 50 x 61 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 24 x 1.2 inch
€3,500
Le malade imaginaire de Molière
Otto II Vautier
Fine Art Drawings - 46 x 52.5 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 18.1 x 20.7 x 0.1 inch
€2,729
Vase and two flowers
Helen Zarin
Painting - 101.6 x 86.4 x 5.1 cm Painting - 40 x 34 x 2 inch
€2,910
Isabel, Diorama, Scramble, 2017
Luc Tuymans
Print - 80.6 x 65.4 x 2.5 cm Print - 31.75 x 25.75 x 1 inch
€16,978
Casa
Lionel le Jeune
Fine Art Drawings - 29.7 x 42 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.7 x 16.5 x 0.1 inch
€75
The Magician
Jean Effel
Fine Art Drawings - 17 x 13.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 6.7 x 5.3 x 0 inch
€200
La Révolte de Budapest
Nicolas Czinober
Fine Art Drawings - 25 x 21.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.8 x 8.5 x 0 inch
€350
Tendril promise de la série paysages en difficulté / Struggling landscapes
Holly King
Painting - 61 x 50.8 x 2.5 cm Painting - 24 x 20 x 1 inch
€3,500
Bouquet de fleurs en vase sur un fauteuil
Charles Beer
Painting - 61 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 24 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
€2,042
Paradis perdus n°9
Alain Fabreal
Painting - 130 x 97 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 38.2 x 1.2 inch
€5,200
Colorful woman
Shanna Kuratli-Fröhlich
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€3,000
The Old Soldier VS Beautiful Young Zealot
Robert Crumb
Fine Art Drawings - 25 x 37 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.8 x 14.6 x 0.4 inch
€14,000
To embrace the presence I am
Juan Carlos Navarro
Painting - 100 x 170 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 66.9 x 1.6 inch
€9,156
Skeme and Lava - N.Y.C Legends
Big Daddy
Photography - 20 x 30 x 1 cm Photography - 7.9 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
€250
The winner
Will Street
Fine Art Drawings - 35.56 x 27.94 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 14 x 11 x 0.1 inch
€350
Winter in Flanders
Albert Saverijs
Painting - 50 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
€9,500
A walk in the moonlight
Gordon Barker
Painting - 9.9 x 13.5 x 0.3 cm Painting - 3.9 x 5.3 x 0.1 inch
€264
Which one for the people?
Alcides Calizaya
Fine Art Drawings - 100 x 80 cm Fine Art Drawings - 39.4 x 31.5 inch
€400
28-Tour de France 2022 13ème étape Bourg d'Oisan-Saint-Etienne. La côte de Saint Romain en Gal.
Jérémy Lempin
Photography - 30 x 40 cm Photography - 11.8 x 15.7 inch
€320
2 Dining Chairs 'Tribute to Mackintosh'
Frans L. Van Praet
Design - 140 x 44 x 50 cm Design - 55.1 x 17.3 x 19.7 inch
€6,000
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!