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Free spirit No. 5
Alexandra Romano
Painting - 20.3 x 25.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 8 x 10 x 1.5 inch
€295
Fluid horizon XLI
Sven Pfrommer
Photography - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
€1,890
URBN City Mixed Media I
Sven Pfrommer
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
€690
Papier 12
Christophe Arbieu
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
€480
I love you in the snow
Stephen Rowe
Painting - 142.2 x 109.2 x 5.1 cm Painting - 56 x 43 x 2 inch
€8,018
Springtime Affarie in London
Stephen Rowe
Painting - 114.3 x 114.3 x 7.6 cm Painting - 45 x 45 x 3 inch
€7,636
Here comes the sun
Stephen Rowe
Painting - 152.4 x 129.5 x 5.1 cm Painting - 60 x 51 x 2 inch
€8,352
The white painting
Kitikong Tilokwattanotai
Painting - 123 x 84 x 4 cm Painting - 48.4 x 33.1 x 1.6 inch
€11,000
Zero-kW/h-Objekt II
Selçuk Dizlek
Sculpture - 63 x 63 x 5 cm Sculpture - 24.8 x 24.8 x 2 inch
€4,900
SET OF 9. Black and White, Line Drawing. Abstract Works on Paper
Clemens Wolf
Fine Art Drawings - 223.8 x 178.8 x 3.8 cm Fine Art Drawings - 88.1 x 70.4 x 1.5 inch
€18,623
La daine d'hiver
Elizabeth Portnova
Sculpture - 30 x 40 x 17 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 15.7 x 6.7 inch
€3,300
Carton horizon
Christian Renonciat
Sculpture - 40 x 93 x 5.5 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 36.6 x 2.2 inch
€7,500
Serie Dones
Miquela Vidal Barceló
Painting - 120 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
€10,000
Maternity
Miquela Vidal Barceló
Painting - 114 x 114 x 3 cm Painting - 44.9 x 44.9 x 1.2 inch
€10,000
Chimigramme 26/8/77 VI „Minimal Photography“
Pierre Cordier
Photography - 50 x 50 x 5 cm Photography - 19.7 x 19.7 x 2 inch
€17,000
Heart on white - Love, Amour, Amore, Liebe 3D white plaster
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 7 x 7 x 1 cm Painting - 2.8 x 2.8 x 0.4 inch
€100
Heart - Love, Amour, Amore, Liebe 3D white plaster
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 7 x 7 x 1 cm Painting - 2.8 x 2.8 x 0.4 inch
€100
Abstraction géométrique numéro 10
Jean-Pierre Rives
Painting - 50 x 70 x 1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch
€4,500
Happiness with two suns
Simon Richard Halimi
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€13,000
Co-owners in a meeting
Simon Richard Halimi
Painting - 89 x 116 x 2 cm Painting - 35 x 45.7 x 0.8 inch
€37,500
Breakfast in paradise
Simon Richard Halimi
Painting - 114 x 146 x 2 cm Painting - 44.9 x 57.5 x 0.8 inch
€42,500
Impro - Vision
Simon Richard Halimi
Painting - 146 x 114 x 2 cm Painting - 57.5 x 44.9 x 0.8 inch
€39,000
Fundamental balance
Simon Richard Halimi
Painting - 130 x 162 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 63.8 x 0.8 inch
€39,000
The merchant of happiness
Simon Richard Halimi
Painting - 150 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
€38,500
My neighbors told me
Simon Richard Halimi
Painting - 120 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
€26,500
Rêverie III
Carola Orieta-Sperman
Sculpture - 64 x 74 x 66 cm Sculpture - 25.2 x 29.1 x 26 inch
€11,388
Onde vibratoire 2
Jean-François Contremoulin
Painting - 18 x 12 x 2 cm Painting - 7.1 x 4.7 x 0.8 inch
€160
The retention of memory
Kirill Basalaev
Painting - 120 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
€4,800
From earth to air #7
Corinne Natel
Painting - 39.9 x 39.9 x 3.8 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 1.5 inch
€360
Expetaction
Paraskevas Papadopoulos
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€7,319
Oscillation
Paraskevas Papadopoulos
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€7,319
Unpredictable past - Paesaggio Poetico
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1.5 inch
€2,386
The time that PATH peacefully 1 and 2 (diptyque)
Bianca Caloi di Grassi
Fine Art Drawings - 82 x 84 x 3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 32.3 x 33.1 x 1.2 inch
€2,060
L'Hirondelle - Abstraction et matière - série entre imaginaire et réel
Marie Mercier dite MALCQ
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
€350
Oceania celebration
Vik Schroeder
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
€450 €405
Bulle d'énergie série Coeur de Chamane
Aurore Lyon
Painting - 20 x 20 x 1.5 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.6 inch
€80
Bulle d'énergie série Coeur de Chamane
Aurore Lyon
Painting - 20 x 20 x 1.5 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.6 inch
€80
Bulle d'énergie série Coeur de Chamane
Aurore Lyon
Painting - 20 x 20 x 1.5 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.6 inch
€80
Bulle d'énergie série Coeur de Chamane
Aurore Lyon
Painting - 20 x 20 x 1.5 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.6 inch
€80
Dyptique 1
Michel Castanet (Mica)
Painting - 116 x 178 x 3 cm Painting - 45.7 x 70.1 x 1.2 inch
€5,860
Canvas 180
Frantisek Florian
Painting - 122.9 x 149.9 x 3.8 cm Painting - 48.4 x 59 x 1.5 inch
€2,283
Stormy Sea 2022.2
Christine Keruth
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.8 inch
€7,262
Mystic in the same place
a Ee
Fine Art Drawings - 21.4 x 14.7 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.4 x 5.8 x 0.4 inch
€5,112
Electric shock experience -black- (4)
AyaNe AyaNe
Print - 119 x 58.4 x 3.2 cm Print - 46.9 x 23 x 1.3 inch
€5,900
Safe Harbor
Bernadette Youngquist
Painting - 91 x 91 x 4 cm Painting - 35.8 x 35.8 x 1.6 inch
€5,500
She is delightfully chaotic
Marisol Evora
Painting - 60 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
€7,553
See to the Sea
Rina Murao
Sculpture - 115 x 405 x 170 cm Sculpture - 45.3 x 159.4 x 66.9 inch
€38,222
The Sea at Dawn
Rina Murao
Sculpture - 150 x 253 x 253 cm Sculpture - 59.1 x 99.6 x 99.6 inch
€60,764
Rare ‘fragments collection’
Sandra Szaja
Painting - 100 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
€14,500
Golden desert of Dubai
Sandra Szaja
Painting - 130 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
€9,000
Neige d'autonome no 2 diptych
Charles Carson
Painting - 152.4 x 61 x 5.1 cm Painting - 60 x 24 x 2 inch
€21,381
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!