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Ragisména series White M1
Rodrigo Zuliani Hauck Zampol
Sculpture - 30 x 19.8 x 3.8 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 7.8 x 1.5 inch
€583
Skull in the Meditation with Neon Design
Dervis Akdemir
Sculpture - 32 x 32 x 25 cm Sculpture - 12.6 x 12.6 x 9.8 inch
€733
Marché : Les Choux
Olivier Daumas
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
€1,500
Tiger, Tiger, Tiger...
Stras Bear
Painting - 200 x 150 x 3 cm Painting - 78.7 x 59.1 x 1.2 inch
€22,000
Winter Twist
Irina Bellaye BlanXs
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
€750
The Birth of Venus
Jeremy Bianco
Painting - 100 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
€3,800
En attendant le jour
Xavier Jallais
Painting - 55 x 46 x 5 cm Painting - 21.7 x 18.1 x 2 inch
€1,450
Aux abords de la maison
Francois Priser
Painting - 81 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€2,400
Aigrette en Camargue derrière des barbelés
Lionel le Jeune
Painting - 37 x 55 x 2 cm Painting - 14.6 x 21.7 x 0.8 inch
€1,300
Sans titre
Bernard Noël
Fine Art Drawings - 31 x 25 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12.2 x 9.8 x 0 inch
€800
Ballet Series II
Miguel Angel Lozano Bonora
Fine Art Drawings - 70 x 50 x 0.01 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
€690
The late night talking 3
Luca Brandi
Painting - 111.8 x 76.2 x 0.3 cm Painting - 44 x 30 x 0.1 inch
€2,440
Oceani Mentali n°9
Luca Izzo
Photography - 50 x 70 x 0.4 cm Photography - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.2 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
€437
Snoopy walking with Euro Bags gold series
Carlos Pun Art
Painting - 70 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
€1,341
Homo numericus
Violeta Mouysset dite Mvili
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1 inch
€1,400
Eroded Astronaut
Daniel Arsham
Sculpture - 30.5 x 21.6 x 21.6 cm Sculpture - 12 x 8.5 x 8.5 inch
€4,900
Veracruz Dancer
Nicolas Sanchez
Painting - 76.2 x 101.6 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30 x 40 x 1.5 inch
€14,581
Vase céramique femme à la cithare
Aurélie Trabaud
Design - 28 x 13 x 13 cm Design - 11 x 5.1 x 5.1 inch
€620
Encre I
Maylis Bourdet
Fine Art Drawings - 36.5 x 47 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 14.4 x 18.5 x 0.4 inch
€560
Le desespéré
Fabienne Bonneau (Fablues)
Sculpture - 30 x 34 x 29 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 13.4 x 11.4 inch
€800
Siestes short ancres marines
Pascal Astier
Painting - 60 x 120 x 2.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 47.2 x 1 inch
€2,000
Goddess Circe. Amphora
Paloma Castello
Sculpture - 50 x 34.3 x 34.3 cm Sculpture - 19.7 x 13.5 x 13.5 inch
€1,555
Restitutio
Vygandas Šimbelis (Das Vegas)
Print - 42.5 x 32 x 4 cm Print - 16.7 x 12.6 x 1.6 inch
€1,400
Green Reflection
Bernadette Jiyong Frank
Painting - 122 x 122 x 3 cm Painting - 48 x 48 x 1.2 inch
€9,250
Tropiques, oiseaux blancs
Bernard Marie Collet
Painting - 100 x 70 x 1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch
€1,900
We Are looking Out For You
Marney-Rose Edge
Painting - 41 x 31 x 6 cm Painting - 16.1 x 12.2 x 2.4 inch
€445
Constructing Dawn
Delphine Hogarth
Painting - 93 x 162 x 4 cm Painting - 36.6 x 63.8 x 1.6 inch
€4,171
La Sainte-Victoire
Sébastien Arcouet
Painting - 40 x 40 x 1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
€630
Grand Espace Cosmique
Aurélie Jeannin
Painting - 120 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
€2,000
Hommage à Pompon
Michel Audiard
Sculpture - 25 x 50 x 16 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 19.7 x 6.3 inch
€1,300
Inside the cleverness of a bee
Marija Tanaskovic Papadopoulos
Fine Art Drawings - 31 x 46 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12.2 x 18.1 x 0.1 inch
€14,000
Rock Extract
Antoine Gaussin
Photography - 110 x 110 x 1 cm Photography - 43.3 x 43.3 x 0.4 inch
€4,600
L'étranger - série Sculpture portrait de femme
Chantal Nottrelet
Sculpture - 39 x 10 x 12 cm Sculpture - 15.4 x 3.9 x 4.7 inch
€500
Le Cordier
Paul de Chatelperron
Fine Art Drawings - 60 x 114 x 2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 23.6 x 44.9 x 0.8 inch
€1,891
Chiaruscoro of still life
Lisbeth Buonanno
Painting - 40 x 50 x 1.8 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.7 inch
€1,200
Ref. 1524 - Untitled
Mehdi Dashti
Painting - 148 x 110 x 5 cm Painting - 58.3 x 43.3 x 2 inch
€4,500
Sudden view from the window at night
Tanya Sviatlichnaya
Painting - 55.5 x 38 x 0.1 cm Painting - 21.9 x 15 x 0 inch
€800
No future !! Future was brighter in the past !!
Mr Popart
Painting - 87 x 87 x 3 cm Painting - 34.3 x 34.3 x 1.2 inch
€1,200
Petit Totem Rectangle
Marie Guerrier
Sculpture - 32 x 10 x 10 cm Sculpture - 12.6 x 3.9 x 3.9 inch
€1,200
Sunset snowed in Paris - France Belle Epoque painting + frame
Francesco Tammaro
Painting - 40 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
€815
Vase petites feuilles
Aurélie Trabaud
Design - 14 x 11 x 11 cm Design - 5.5 x 4.3 x 4.3 inch
€295 €266
Banksy in a can
Parenteau-Denoel & Mofart'z
Sculpture - 20 x 10 x 15 cm Sculpture - 7.9 x 3.9 x 5.9 inch
€595
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!