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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
Icescape with figures on the ice...
Rob van Assen
Painting - 30 x 40 x 1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
€2,450
Manga - Rouge/Dog
Moncler Moncler
Sculpture - 32 x 30 x 16 cm Sculpture - 12.6 x 11.8 x 6.3 inch
€2,721
Interior de la Iglesia de Espejo (Cordoba) en septiembre de 1937
Equipo Realidad
Print - 69 x 71 cm Print - 27.2 x 28 inch
€300
Study on perspective II
Noémie Goudal
Sculpture - 20 x 19 x 8 cm Sculpture - 7.9 x 7.5 x 3.1 inch
€450
Corner of the inn
Tamalin Baumgarten
Painting - 45.72 x 45.72 x 5.08 cm Painting - 18 x 18 x 2 inch
€3,587
Tall Tall Grass
Harry Schwalb
Fine Art Drawings - 33 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 13 x 6 x 1 inch
€435
Eau de vie - Plumes naturelles
Plum
Sculpture - 100 x 70 x 3 cm Sculpture - 39.4 x 27.6 x 1.2 inch
€9,600
Urban wallpaper 10
Bruno Fontana
Photography - 80 x 120 x 0.1 cm Photography - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0 inch
€2,400
Cherries in glass bowl
Ekaterina Gasmi
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
€6,800
Comtesse PiouPiou
Valentine Burlan
Fine Art Drawings - 45 x 30 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 17.7 x 11.8 x 0 inch
€79
Yankirri Tjukurrpa (Rêve de l'Emeu)
Mary Nangalaallan
Painting - 30 x 30 x 3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 1.2 inch
€195
Wanakiji Jukurrpa (Bush Tomato Dreaming)
Juliette Nakamarra Morris
Painting - 30 x 46 x 3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 18.1 x 1.2 inch
€340
Confessions of the smoking nun
Formento+Formento Terry Pastor
Photography - 91 x 150 x 5 cm Photography - 35.8 x 59.1 x 2 inch
€5,000
Women's ceremony
Yinarupa Nangala
Painting - 119 x 145 x 3 cm Painting - 46.9 x 57.1 x 1.2 inch
€7,000
Mediterranean
Jag Jo Auguste Germain
Sculpture - 70 x 50 x 1 cm Sculpture - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
€900
On the metaphysics of the homo faber
Miguel Villarino
Print - 75 x 88 cm Print - 29.5 x 34.6 inch
€440
D2
Jean-Paul Veison Marcelli
Fine Art Drawings - 42 x 29.7 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 11.7 x 0.1 inch
€150
E2
Jean-Paul Veison Marcelli
Photography - 20 x 30 x 0.3 cm Photography - 7.9 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
€157
Mascarade
Kristina Malashchenko
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 21 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 8.3 x 0.4 inch
€490
Shadow tiger
Judith Christine Riemer
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
€490
Township home #01
José Luis Lopez Lara
Sculpture - 24.2 x 16 x 25.7 cm Sculpture - 9.5 x 6.3 x 10.1 inch
€400
Weisshorn Panoramique
Thomas Crauwels
Photography - 90 x 180 x 1 cm Photography - 35.4 x 70.9 x 0.4 inch
€4,802
Dance
Nathanaëlle Dianga
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 20 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 7.9 x 0.1 inch
€990 €495
Chaotic dance
Lia Chechelashvili
Fine Art Drawings - 50.8 x 40.6 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 20 x 16 x 0.1 inch
€890
Corps rêvé réel 1
Anne Procoudine-Gorsky
Painting - 156 x 62 x 1.5 cm Painting - 61.4 x 24.4 x 0.6 inch
€680
Elévation
Frédérique Maillart
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 30 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 11.8 x 0 inch
€480
Baccarat II, Paris
Ellen von Unwerth
Photography - 36.8 x 54.6 cm Photography - 14.5 x 21.5 inch
€8,705
Some Letters Rejected to the Sender
Gianfranco Baruchello
Painting - 36.5 x 51 x 0.2 cm Painting - 14.4 x 20.1 x 0.1 inch
€9,500
Nu 28
Thomas Witte
Fine Art Drawings - 64 x 50 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.2 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
€800
Immersió 051
Oriol Texidor
Fine Art Drawings - 42 x 30 x 4 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 11.8 x 1.6 inch
€1,250
Nu VI
Mirco Marcacci
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 30 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.2 inch
€890
Sans titre
Michel Lablais
Fine Art Drawings - 42 x 23.5 x 4 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 9.3 x 1.6 inch
€700
Autoportrait
Cécile Beaupère
Fine Art Drawings - 91.5 x 62.5 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 36 x 24.6 x 0.1 inch
€1,500
22C15
Etienne Gros
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
€1,800
Phoebe, La Barque
André Carrara
Photography - 18 x 15 x 2 cm Photography - 7.1 x 5.9 x 0.8 inch
€750
Venus au maquereau
Bernard Terreaux
Sculpture - 26 x 30 x 44 cm Sculpture - 10.2 x 11.8 x 17.3 inch
€980
The man in the Well
Alberto Savinio
Print - 37.4 x 26.5 x 0.2 cm Print - 14.7 x 10.4 x 0.1 inch
€2,600
Baiadera Sculpture
Anselmo Bucci
Sculpture - 27.5 x 22 x 10 cm Sculpture - 10.8 x 8.7 x 3.9 inch
€9,000
Yumi2 : Chiseled Allure and Graceful Pose
Aya Toshikawa
Sculpture - 130 x 55 x 55 cm Sculpture - 51.2 x 21.7 x 21.7 inch
€51,000
Internal Nude
Tibor Gertler
Fine Art Drawings - 48 x 31 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 18.9 x 12.2 x 0 inch
€300
Nude of Woman
Marcel Spranck
Fine Art Drawings - 17 x 11.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 6.7 x 4.5 x 0 inch
€160
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!