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Marbles 20
Carlos Bruscianelli
Painting - 121.9 x 172.7 x 3.8 cm Painting - 48 x 68 x 1.5 inch
$37,000
Carcasse # 24
Pascal Marlin
Fine Art Drawings - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$843
Voiture chauffe eau
Yannis Lagresle
Sculpture - 21 x 52 x 26 cm Sculpture - 8.3 x 20.5 x 10.2 inch
$3,820
Melodie Monocromatiche - Vintage White
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 22.9 x 22.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 9 x 9 x 1 inch
$350
Melodie Monocromatiche - Bianco puro
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 22.9 x 22.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 9 x 9 x 1 inch
$350
Valsesia (black and red)
Mario Domenicale
Painting - 28 x 42 x 0.2 cm Painting - 11 x 16.5 x 0.1 inch
$202
Pas ce que vous pensiez : noir
Eugenia Jaeger
Print - 20.3 x 30.5 x 0.1 cm Print - 8 x 12 x 0 inch
$202
Homme à la main levée
Pascal Marlin
Painting - 65 x 55 x 3 cm Painting - 25.6 x 21.7 x 1.2 inch
$843
Space: is NOT the final frontier
Rene Gagnon
Print - 55.88 x 76.2 x 0.2 cm Print - 22 x 30 x 0.1 inch
$427
Ode - Round Painting
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 30.5 x 30.5 x 2.5 cm Painting - 12 x 12 x 1 inch
$300
Fragment cathédrale
Florence Jarrige
Sculpture - 20 x 30 x 15 cm Sculpture - 7.9 x 11.8 x 5.9 inch
$3,933
Phénomènes, Untitled (Volcano eruption #7)
Marina Gadonneix
Photography - 29 x 22.4 x 0.2 cm Photography - 11.4 x 8.8 x 0.1 inch
$157
Wonderland, Which Way? Which Way?
Sophie Valette
Photography - 40 x 40 x 1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
$539
Voiturette vintage blanche
Art Pej
Sculpture - 40 x 77 x 41 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 30.3 x 16.1 inch
$652
Stronger Together
Bronle Crosby
Painting - 182.9 x 243.8 x 6.4 cm Painting - 72 x 96 x 2.5 inch
$11,750
Yellow (Santa Maria)
Carlos Estrela
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$3,393
Cueillette de coton
Edna De Araraquara
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,697
The large sitting cheetah
Marie Ackers
Sculpture - 100 x 40 x 40 cm Sculpture - 39.4 x 15.7 x 15.7 inch
$9,809
The kettle
Claude Billès
Photography - 100 x 75 x 0.5 cm Photography - 39.4 x 29.5 x 0.2 inch
$2,360
Rebolada
Geraldo Pestalozzi
Photography - 40 x 29.7 x 0.2 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11.7 x 0.1 inch
$449
The demand of the time (Black & white)
Jacob Rantzau
Print - 108 x 159 cm Print - 42.5 x 62.6 inch
$3,652
Offscreen (Roi-Fö II)
Franck Kemkeng Noah
Painting - 160 x 200 x 3 cm Painting - 63 x 78.7 x 1.2 inch
$11,012
All these things in my head
Emily Starck
Painting - 115 x 95 x 3 cm Painting - 45.3 x 37.4 x 1.2 inch
$2,922
Series: Portrait rendering #2
Keita Kushima
Painting - 90 x 70 x 3 cm Painting - 35.4 x 27.6 x 1.2 inch
$4,832
UberMan collage
Baptiste Laurent
Fine Art Drawings - 139 x 109 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 54.7 x 42.9 x 0.1 inch
$2,809
Les dames de la côté - Série Les femmes et la mer
Françoise Lucq
Painting - 20 x 20 x 1 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.4 inch
$197
Don’t live without it - In the best of all possible worlds
Fringe
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$9,551
Louis loves blue - In the best of all possible worlds
Fringe
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$9,551
Sneaker Nike Air Jordan 1 Taille 43
Les Frères Guinet
Sculpture - 12 x 30 x 17 cm Sculpture - 4.7 x 11.8 x 6.7 inch
$2,686
Yves Saint Laurent - L'histoire d'une vie
OverSide
Photography - 60 x 60 x 0.5 cm Photography - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.2 inch
$393
Sérigraphie Roboclusion Goldorak XII
Vincent Sabatier
Print - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Print - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$202
Sérigraphie Roboclusion Goldorak X
Vincent Sabatier
Print - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Print - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$202
Sérigraphie Roboclusion Goldorak V
Vincent Sabatier
Print - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Print - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$202
Sérigraphie Roboclusion Darth Vader
Vincent Sabatier
Print - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Print - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$202
Sérigraphie Roboclusion Dior Air Jordan
Vincent Sabatier
Print - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Print - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$202
Sans titre, Exit serie
Baptiste Laurent
Painting - 108 x 108 x 0.3 cm Painting - 42.5 x 42.5 x 0.1 inch
$2,416
Panthère des neiges fouaillant de la queue
Matthieu Floranc
Sculpture - 25 x 60 x 13.5 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 23.6 x 5.3 inch
$7,192
Afraid
Michael Grine
Fine Art Drawings - 58.42 x 76.2 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 23 x 30 x 0 inch
$1,000
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!