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Triangle noir demi jésus
Leopoldo Nóvoa
Print - 38.5 x 53.5 x 0.3 cm Print - 15.2 x 21.1 x 0.1 inch
€350
Still life with fishes
Arayik Murdaynan
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€432
Artistic tooth - Black Leg
Hilbertas Jatkevicius
Sculpture - 18.5 x 10.4 x 9.5 cm Sculpture - 7.3 x 4.1 x 3.7 inch
€260
La Licorne magnifique dans sa lumineuse constellation, étoilée
Danielle Balagé
Painting - 146 x 97 x 2 cm Painting - 57.5 x 38.2 x 0.8 inch
€5,950
Dots variation bleu
Ferri Garcès
Sculpture - 50 x 50 x 4 cm Sculpture - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
€4,500
Racines
Isabelle Goudin Pincin (Bizabo)
Fine Art Drawings - 45 x 30 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 17.7 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
€690
To our birth place
Jérôme Dupré la Tour
Photography - 220 x 300 cm Photography - 86.6 x 118.1 inch
€1,800
Fife Regatta 2201
Götz Göppert
Photography - 60 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
€675
Carpe diem
Sylvie Julkowski-Egard
Painting - 73 x 92 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 36.2 x 0.8 inch
€1,500
Au café de l'Ile St Louis
Sylvie Julkowski-Egard
Painting - 100 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,500
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
€3,700
Centaurea parilica
Lyuben Domozetski
Painting - 28 x 21 x 0.2 cm Painting - 11 x 8.3 x 0.1 inch
€460
Chat persan
François Galoyer
Sculpture - 32 x 48 x 15.5 cm Sculpture - 12.6 x 18.9 x 6.1 inch
€10,500
Boccacce (trittico)
Rossella Mercedes
Fine Art Drawings - 14.8 x 63 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 5.8 x 24.8 x 0.1 inch
€150
Porsche 911 White
Antoine Dufilho
Sculpture - 19.5 x 76 x 33 cm Sculpture - 7.7 x 29.9 x 13 inch
€19,000
Fanfare Irakienne
José Nicolas
Photography - 40 x 60 x 1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
€900
Vallée du Jabron
José Nicolas
Photography - 60 x 90 x 1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.4 inch
€1,000
Burkina 1998 Coupe d'Afrique des Nations
José Nicolas
Photography - 60 x 90 x 1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.4 inch
€1,500
The woman on sofa
Antonio Feltrinelli
Painting - 90 x 70.5 x 2.5 cm Painting - 35.4 x 27.8 x 1 inch
€6,200
Scarce Swallowtail (Iphiclides podaliricus)
Lyuben Domozetski
Painting - 29.7 x 21 x 0.1 cm Painting - 11.7 x 8.3 x 0 inch
€310
Phénomènes, Untitled (volcanic eruption #2)
Marina Gadonneix
Photography - 29 x 22.4 x 0.2 cm Photography - 11.4 x 8.8 x 0.1 inch
€140
Grand carré long 84
Tehos
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
€349
Série: Se faire passer pour Mao
Nathalie Daoust
Photography - 90 x 60 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 inch
€2,500
Série : Se faire passer pour Mao
Nathalie Daoust
Photography - 60 x 90 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 inch
€2,500
Série : Se faire passer pour Mao
Nathalie Daoust
Photography - 60 x 90 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 inch
€2,500
Série : Se faire passer pour Mao
Nathalie Daoust
Photography - 60 x 90 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 inch
€2,500
Série : Se faire passer pour Mao
Nathalie Daoust
Photography - 60 x 90 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 inch
€2,500
Sous-bois
François-Xavier de Boissoudy
Painting - 125 x 125 x 4 cm Painting - 49.2 x 49.2 x 1.6 inch
€6,500
In the moment guitar
Erik Paul
Painting - 152.4 x 121.9 x 10.2 cm Painting - 60 x 48 x 4 inch
€9,355
Daisy petals aloft
Carrie Makenna
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 5.1 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 2 inch
€2,687
Les trois ponts
Georgii Vinogradov
Photography - 20 x 38 x 0.2 cm Photography - 7.9 x 15 x 0.1 inch
€500
Brume sur la seine
Gaston Sebire
Painting - 73 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 28.7 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
€3,900
Nueve secuencias en horizontal
Ana Pérez Pereda
Print - 31 x 145 x 1 cm Print - 12.2 x 57.1 x 0.4 inch
€2,300
Estudios de Secuencias diacrónicas
Ana Pérez Pereda
Print - 150 x 60 x 1 cm Print - 59.1 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
€4,060
Sagamore short bowl Tondo Doni
Mario Cioni
Design - 9 x 30 x 30 cm Design - 3.5 x 11.8 x 11.8 inch
€800
Urban Patterns-Village St.
Carl McGrady
Painting - 61 x 61 x 2.5 cm Painting - 24 x 24 x 1 inch
€2,399
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!