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Femme au temple
Raynald Najosky
Photography - 56 x 40 x 1 cm Photography - 22 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
€1,100
Marine abstraite 2024-48
Fred Boutet
Painting - 50 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 19.7 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
€600
White Serenity
Amaury Maillet
Sculpture - 18 x 130 x 130 cm Sculpture - 7.1 x 51.2 x 51.2 inch
€4,798
Round Square All White
Amaury Maillet
Sculpture - 90 x 80 x 70 cm Sculpture - 35.4 x 31.5 x 27.6 inch
€2,733
White Mastodonte Under Red Moon
Amaury Maillet
Sculpture - 55 x 70 x 50 cm Sculpture - 21.7 x 27.6 x 19.7 inch
€2,733
Hotel Chelsea, New York. Room 123
Victoria Cohen
Photography - 50.8 x 76.2 x 0.3 cm Photography - 20 x 30 x 0.1 inch
€2,224
Elegant Luminescenece
Diana Torje
Painting - 90 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
€3,400
L'hôtel isolé, Alcúdia
Christelle Yambayisa
Photography - 70 x 105 x 1 cm Photography - 27.6 x 41.3 x 0.4 inch
€2,800
35cm Teddy CH Tribute, Chrome White
Naor
Sculpture - 35 x 25 x 28 cm Sculpture - 13.8 x 9.8 x 11 inch
€1,170
L'air le plus limpide... (série 11 vues des Pyrénées) (1)
Serge Sauniere
Print - 56 x 45 x 0.01 cm Print - 22 x 17.7 x 0 inch
€500
Tribal Hermes
Massimiliano Pelletti
Sculpture - 37 x 27 x 30 cm Sculpture - 14.6 x 10.6 x 11.8 inch
€39,000
Kiss me, I love you
Patrick Cornée
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
€3,200
Collage - 6
Lisbeth Delisle
Fine Art Drawings - 29.7 x 21 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.7 x 8.3 inch
€1,200
La Veuve Noire
Lisbeth Delisle
Fine Art Drawings - 29.7 x 21 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.7 x 8.3 inch
€1,200
Peinture 11-2023-67
Alain Bécanne
Painting - 120 x 120 x 4.5 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.8 inch
€1,200
Marine abstraite 2024-51
Fred Boutet
Painting - 40 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 15.7 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
€700
Brigitte Bardot "Kitchen"
Peter Donkersloot
Painting - 150 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 59.1 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
€8,500
Never Never Give Up!
Diederik Van Apple
Sculpture - 33 x 16 x 15 cm Sculpture - 13 x 6.3 x 5.9 inch
€695
Follow Your Heart
Diederik Van Apple
Sculpture - 33 x 16 x 15 cm Sculpture - 13 x 6.3 x 5.9 inch
€695
Fourmis
Éric Dabancourt
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
€540
Sonate crépusculaire
Bernard Gaulbert
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€1,800
Assemblage #15
Georges Myral
Painting - 100 x 100 x 7 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 2.8 inch
€800 €720
Kévin & Jessie - Nanytes - Île de Nantes - série photo couleur danse et architecture
Lucas Perrigot
Photography - 59.4 x 84.1 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.4 x 33.1 x 0 inch
€578
Jessie - Pont Éric Tabarly - série photo couleur danse et architecture
Lucas Perrigot
Photography - 59.4 x 84.1 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.4 x 33.1 x 0 inch
€578
IBEYI - Deux minutes avant la scène - Paris - L'Olympia - série photo concert noir et blanc
Lucas Perrigot
Photography - 59.4 x 84.1 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.4 x 33.1 x 0 inch
€600
Hollywood Glamour
Yasna Godovanik
Painting - 100 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,250
Glitch #05. From the series Glitch
Yongwon Noh
Design - 10.9 x 13 x 13 cm Design - 4.3 x 5.1 x 5.1 inch
€677
Glitch #04. From the series Glitch
Yongwon Noh
Design - 17 x 6.9 x 6.9 cm Design - 6.7 x 2.7 x 2.7 inch
€677
Grey frame - Dandelion aura
Alvaro Petritoli
Painting - 27 x 24 x 3 cm Painting - 10.6 x 9.4 x 1.2 inch
€635
Contemporary portrait "The Inhabitants"
Nataliya Bagatskaya
Painting - 80 x 50 x 1.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 19.7 x 0.6 inch
€1,300
Magnolia branch
Evgeny Chernyakovsky
Painting - 90 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,934 €1,547
Venues d'ailleurs
Marie-Paskale Perrin
Painting - 90 x 30 x 1 cm Painting - 35.4 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
€1,800
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!