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Nicole Mixed Media Sculpture
John Petrey
Sculpture - 68.6 x 38.1 x 38.1 cm Sculpture - 27 x 15 x 15 inch
€6,707
Natale Mixed Media Sculpture
John Petrey
Sculpture - 144.8 x 53.3 x 53.3 cm Sculpture - 57 x 21 x 21 inch
€11,179
Following the light II
Kamalky Laureano
Painting - 150 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
€6,100
Le petit banc de bois - 2/5
Sophie Mayeux
Photography - 20 x 20 x 1 cm Photography - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.4 inch
€180
Mourir d’amour enchaîné - 1/5
Sophie Mayeux
Photography - 20 x 20 x 1 cm Photography - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.4 inch
€180
Miroir de glace - 1/5
Sophie Mayeux
Photography - 20 x 20 x 1 cm Photography - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.4 inch
€180
Job offer
Simon Richard Halimi
Painting - 130 x 162 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 63.8 x 0.8 inch
€42,000
You can do what she would want
Joana Choumali
Photography - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Photography - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€15,000
Blacks and whites
Pierre Barillot
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
€2,300
Le petit chien blanc
Patrick Moya
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
€3,800
La coz y el martillo
Miguel Amate
Painting - 92 x 73 x 2.5 cm Painting - 36.2 x 28.7 x 1 inch
€12,520
Luxury Art Toffee - Luxury Fashion
Michael Daniels
Sculpture - 33 x 10 x 10 cm Sculpture - 13 x 3.9 x 3.9 inch
€225
Moment de tendresse - série Chevaux et Paysage de Camargue
Myriam Colart
Painting - 20 x 20 x 2 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.8 inch
€150
A Dog, a cat and the 9 suns
Uy Nguyen
Painting - 70 x 100 x 1.7 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0.7 inch
€2,800
Saxophone et écho blanc
Aimé Venel
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
€8,300
My Beautiful Garden
Elena Shichko
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€2,400
Cauchemar du 20 janvier 2021
Quentin Liu
Painting - 130 x 90 x 4 cm Painting - 51.2 x 35.4 x 1.6 inch
€4,800
Toits de Paris II
Guillaume Chansarel (Guiyome)
Painting - 65 x 92 x 1 cm Painting - 25.6 x 36.2 x 0.4 inch
€3,600
Think outside the box
Judith Christine Riemer
Painting - 60 x 80 x 1.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.6 inch
€1,700
Blue and red
Mahabbeh Mowakket
Fine Art Drawings - 25 x 35 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.8 x 13.8 x 0 inch
€778
Régate série mer et voiliers
Bernard Relecom
Painting - 20 x 20 x 1.5 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.6 inch
€160
Honore Club, NYC.
Samuel Ryde
Photography - 67 x 47 x 1 cm Photography - 26.4 x 18.5 x 0.4 inch
€427
From grape to stars - Domaine Guigal-La Landonne#1
Patrick Desgraupes
Photography - 100 x 100 x 0.3 cm Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.1 inch
€16,000
White Daffodil
Michael Filonow
Photography - 76.2 x 50.8 x 0.3 cm Photography - 30 x 20 x 0.1 inch
€355
Audrey Hepburn Nothing is impossible 2
Gardani Art
Painting - 96.5 x 127 x 3.8 cm Painting - 38 x 50 x 1.5 inch
€5,735
They Know the way
Gardani Art
Painting - 137.2 x 106.7 x 8.9 cm Painting - 54 x 42 x 3.5 inch
€14,581
Le bois de la Drée
François Houtin
Painting - 205 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 80.7 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
€22,000
Frozen Kingdome
Stanislavas Bartnikas
Photography - 60 x 90 x 0.3 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.1 inch
€7,000
El Abrazo II
Pere Bennàssar Obrador
Sculpture - 71 x 34 x 27 cm Sculpture - 28 x 13.4 x 10.6 inch
€5,385
Love art
Iolanta Gondouin (Iola)
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
€1,600
The end
Michael Grine
Fine Art Drawings - 121.9 x 193 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 48 x 76 x 0.1 inch
€1,944
"BoletStranger" - Arboretum de Versailles-Chèvreloup
Vesna BECHA-BOJOVIC
Photography - 14 x 24 x 0.2 cm Photography - 5.5 x 9.4 x 0.1 inch
€90
The hardest thing of all…
Mikhail Baranovskiy
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 1 inch
€2,000
Diptyque, La Havane home and Garden
Thomas Henriot
Fine Art Drawings - 97 x 137 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 38.2 x 53.9 x 0.1 inch
€5,450
Cristoffers blommor
Rocío Soriano
Painting - 28.5 x 28.5 x 1 cm Painting - 11.2 x 11.2 x 0.4 inch
€190
L'éternité 9 - Paysage marin et bateau sur l'eau
Frédérique Hatier
Painting - 30 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
€440
L'éternité 6 - Paysage marin et bateau sur l'eau
Frédérique Hatier
Painting - 30 x 50 x 0.5 cm Painting - 11.8 x 19.7 x 0.2 inch
€440
L'éternité 7 - Paysage marin et bateau sur l'eau
Frédérique Hatier
Painting - 30 x 50 x 0.5 cm Painting - 11.8 x 19.7 x 0.2 inch
€440
L'éternité 4 - Paysage marin et bateau sur l'eau
Frédérique Hatier
Painting - 30 x 50 x 0.5 cm Painting - 11.8 x 19.7 x 0.2 inch
€440
L'éternité 8" - Paysage marin et bateau sur l'eau
Frédérique Hatier
Painting - 30 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
€440
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!