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Grande Lutte Chinoise 1
François Garros
Painting - 146 x 114 x 5 cm Painting - 57.5 x 44.9 x 2 inch
$5,229
Michelin China - Blue Dragon
Li Lihong
Sculpture - 28.5 x 27 x 24 cm Sculpture - 11.2 x 10.6 x 9.4 inch
$5,115
Codes esthétiques 2380
Konstantin Kornakov
Photography - 60 x 40 cm Photography - 23.6 x 15.7 inch
$796
Codes esthétiques 1127
Konstantin Kornakov
Photography - 40 x 60 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 inch
$796
Une image de la guerre 14-72
Jean-Pierre Le Boul'ch
Painting - 89 x 116 x 2 cm Painting - 35 x 45.7 x 0.8 inch
$7,957
At Home papier déchiré 300 grammes
Bows
Painting - 74 x 57 x 5 cm Painting - 29.1 x 22.4 x 2 inch
$1,705
Montre molle
Ray Smith
Fine Art Drawings - 27 x 37 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10.6 x 14.6 x 0 inch
$1,250
Renversements 733
Anneke Klein-Kranenbarg
Sculpture - 25 x 25 x 3.5 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 9.8 x 1.4 inch
$1,364
Renversements 734
Anneke Klein-Kranenbarg
Sculpture - 25 x 25 x 3.5 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 9.8 x 1.4 inch
$1,364
Retrato 2
Juan Sebastian Barbera
Fine Art Drawings - 75.9 x 55.9 cm Fine Art Drawings - 29.9 x 22 inch
$1,400
Objekt #2. Serrasalmus (5)
Zianko Vasili
Painting - 100 x 110 x 0.3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 43.3 x 0.1 inch
$3,228
Objekt #2. Serrasalmus (2)
Zianko Vasili
Painting - 100 x 110 x 0.3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 43.3 x 0.1 inch
$3,228
Les lions sont des rois
Patrick Cornée
Painting - 120 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$4,774
Luxury Art Toffee - Leather look - White
Ad Van Hassel
Sculpture - 33 x 10 x 10 cm Sculpture - 13 x 3.9 x 3.9 inch
$256
Homage to Jackson Pollock (white)
Ad Van Hassel
Sculpture - 33 x 10 x 10 cm Sculpture - 13 x 3.9 x 3.9 inch
$256
Homage to Lichtenstein (Black)
Ad Van Hassel
Sculpture - 33 x 10 x 10 cm Sculpture - 13 x 3.9 x 3.9 inch
$256
Homage to Andy Warhol / Fruity PopArt
Ad Van Hassel
Sculpture - 33 x 10 x 10 cm Sculpture - 13 x 3.9 x 3.9 inch
$256
Stormtrooper, welcome to the dark side
Patrick Cornée
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$2,842
Chromatic reflections
Esteban Vera
Painting - 110 x 89.9 x 5.1 cm Painting - 43.3 x 35.4 x 2 inch
$3,320
Envolving pathways
Esteban Vera
Painting - 119.9 x 99.8 x 5.1 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.3 x 2 inch
$3,420
Audrey Hepburn loves Andy Warhol
Patrick Cornée
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$3,638
Pikachu is my hero
Patrick Cornée
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$2,842
Doggy POP, Pink version
Patrick Cornée
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$3,638
An Island in the air
Urs Lüthi
Photography - 20 x 47 x 0.3 cm Photography - 7.9 x 18.5 x 0.1 inch
$568
Canvas 179
Frantisek Florian
Painting - 122.9 x 147.8 x 3.8 cm Painting - 48.4 x 58.2 x 1.5 inch
$2,399
Canvas 185
Frantisek Florian
Painting - 117.9 x 146.8 x 3.8 cm Painting - 46.4 x 57.8 x 1.5 inch
$2,577
Canvas 186
Frantisek Florian
Painting - 110 x 146.8 x 3.8 cm Painting - 43.3 x 57.8 x 1.5 inch
$2,307
After performance
Karen Axikyan
Sculpture - 16 x 40 x 10 cm Sculpture - 6.3 x 15.7 x 3.9 inch
$2,999 $2,550
Flickering garden 2
Nestor Toro
Painting - 71.1 x 55.9 x 1.8 cm Painting - 28 x 22 x 0.7 inch
$2,180
Verlaine
Ernest Pignon-Ernest
Fine Art Drawings - 39 x 29 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.4 x 11.4 x 0.2 inch
$18,188
The beautiful midsummer night's dream
Peter Hofmann
Fine Art Drawings - 53 x 70.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 20.9 x 27.8 x 0 inch
$2,558
Gente en la niebla
Débora Sánchez Viqueira
Painting - 137 x 274 x 3 cm Painting - 53.9 x 107.9 x 1.2 inch
$14,216
Anonimo Pank
Dimitris Pavlopoulos
Painting - 115 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 45.3 x 39.4 x 1 inch
$2,274
Vintage 2 CV
Franck Savoye (Francky)
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,023
Mountains
Miquel Angel Benejam
Painting - 195 x 130 x 2.8 cm Painting - 76.8 x 51.2 x 1.1 inch
$3,297
Mountain
Miquel Angel Benejam
Painting - 130 x 162 x 2.8 cm Painting - 51.2 x 63.8 x 1.1 inch
$2,728
Net for dreaming clouds
Lena Ochkalova
Painting - 110 x 76 x 0.1 cm Painting - 43.3 x 29.9 x 0 inch
$2,444
White & Metal II
Attila Mata
Sculpture - 103 x 52 x 60 cm Sculpture - 40.6 x 20.5 x 23.6 inch
$13,471
Restaurant Paris
Marco Santaniello
Painting - 61.3 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 24.1 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
$5,115
Pont de pierre dans la brume
Aurélie Trabaud
Painting - 25 x 25 x 1 cm Painting - 9.8 x 9.8 x 0.4 inch
$665
Absence with Earth and Green
Paul Lorenz
Painting - 46 x 46 x 0.1 cm Painting - 18.1 x 18.1 x 0 inch
$2,615
Absence with Black and Valley
Paul Lorenz
Painting - 46 x 46 x 0.1 cm Painting - 18.1 x 18.1 x 0 inch
$2,615
Absence with black and Ochre
Paul Lorenz
Painting - 46 x 46 x 0.1 cm Painting - 18.1 x 18.1 x 0 inch
$2,615
Absence with Black and Horizon
Paul Lorenz
Painting - 46 x 46 x 0.1 cm Painting - 18.1 x 18.1 x 0 inch
$2,615
Absence with Black and Fortress
Paul Lorenz
Painting - 46 x 46 x 0.1 cm Painting - 18.1 x 18.1 x 0 inch
$2,615
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!