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Pachena breaker
Charlie Easton
Painting - 122 x 122 x 4 cm Painting - 48 x 48 x 1.6 inch
$4,006 $3,406
Nocturnal
Amrita Bilimoria
Photography - 101.6 x 152.4 x 0.5 cm Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.2 inch
$3,100
Alerte
Emmanuelle Vroelant
Painting - 92 x 65 x 3 cm Painting - 36.2 x 25.6 x 1.2 inch
$4,045 $3,236
Blues Covid
Tanguy Mendrisse
Photography - 40 x 30 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$180 $162
Série Lignes blanches - Soleil couchant
Lionel Chevalier
Painting - 65 x 81 x 2.5 cm Painting - 25.6 x 31.9 x 1 inch
$1,686
Série lignes blanches - Lignes épurées
Lionel Chevalier
Painting - 65 x 81 x 2.5 cm Painting - 25.6 x 31.9 x 1 inch
$1,686
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
Paysage de chine sur des radeaux en bambou
Ellis Zbinden
Painting - 47 x 67 x 0.1 cm Painting - 18.5 x 26.4 x 0 inch
$12,136
One Dollar Rouge Mat
Karl Lagasse
Sculpture - 16.5 x 39.5 x 0.2 cm Sculpture - 6.5 x 15.6 x 0.1 inch
$2,584 $2,326
Entrelazar 6 Wall Sculpture
Javier Rey
Sculpture - 32 x 32 x 8 cm Sculpture - 12.6 x 12.6 x 3.1 inch
$1,000
Pigui
Stefano Mazzolini
Fine Art Drawings - 100 x 70 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch
$899 $809
Gnomat
Stefano Mazzolini
Fine Art Drawings - 70 x 100 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
$899 $809
Utopian # 51
Jonathan Antony
Painting - 102 x 102 x 5 cm Painting - 40.2 x 40.2 x 2 inch
$2,809 $2,528
Throughout eternity
Nemanja Nikolic
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 2 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.78 inch
Sold
Chaussure / Sans Titre
Meteo Meteo
Fine Art Drawings - 29.7 x 21 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.7 x 8.3 x 0 inch
$73
Light painting
Jan Brunclík
Photography - 60 x 80 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0 inch
$1,292
King be shaved
James Ogamba Tochukwu
Painting - 127 x 101.6 x 2.5 cm Painting - 50 x 40 x 1 inch
$2,500
Paride
Massimiliano Pelletti
Sculpture - 87 x 34 x 54 cm Sculpture - 34.3 x 13.4 x 21.3 inch
$65,173
Character
Pascal Marlin
Fine Art Drawings - 31 x 24 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12.2 x 9.4 x 0 inch
$315
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
Dancing in turquoise waters 02
Eric Alfaro
Painting - 215 x 65 cm Painting - 84.6 x 25.6 inch
$13,543
Modillum
Stefano Mazzolini
Painting - 174 x 137 x 1 cm Painting - 68.5 x 53.9 x 0.4 inch
$5,618 $5,057
Portrait de Surma N°2
Catherine Clare
Painting - 46 x 38 x 2 cm Painting - 18.1 x 15 x 0.8 inch
$1,348 $1,079
Recette Brioche de foie gras
Noël Granger
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 30 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11.8 inch
$124
L'Ecureuil et son Bonhomme !
Noël Granger
Fine Art Drawings - 25 x 25 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.8 x 9.8 inch
$101
Autoroute A77 Sancerre France
Thierry Machuron
Painting - 33 x 41 x 1 cm Painting - 13 x 16.1 x 0.4 inch
$562 $506
Recette Terrine de Saint-Jacques
Noël Granger
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 40 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 15.7 inch
$124
Moon Bay village Chine Delta de Shanghai
Thierry Machuron
Painting - 70 x 90 x 1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.4 inch
$3,371 $3,034
Breast Print 24
Dzovig Arnelian
Painting - 16.8 x 12.3 x 0.4 cm Painting - 6.6 x 4.8 x 0.2 inch
$250 $225
Mondi fluttuanti
Dores Sacquegna
Photography - 70 x 100 x 0.3 cm Photography - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0.1 inch
$1,686 $1,517
Amalgame amoureux
Laurent Anastay-Ponsolle
Fine Art Drawings - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
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La forme de la mer
Benoit Barbagli
Painting - 117 x 219 x 3 cm Painting - 46.1 x 86.2 x 1.2 inch
$6,180
Late Night IV
Ruslana Levandovska
Painting - 35.6 x 27.9 x 0.5 cm Painting - 14 x 11 x 0.2 inch
$2,500
Fruit d'Anémone du Japon
Thierry Robert
Photography - 30 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$427
Hands, The Sugar Project
Amrita Bilimoria
Photography - 49 x 48.3 x 0.5 cm Photography - 19.3 x 19 x 0.2 inch
$1,500
Petit chemin de campagne
Marianne Quinzin
Painting - 50 x 61 x 1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 24 x 0.4 inch
$1,067
Running The Bridge (Lightbox)
David Drebin
Photography - 121.9 x 182.9 cm Photography - 48 x 72 inch
$36,000
Running The Bridge (L)
David Drebin
Photography - 121.9 x 182.9 cm Photography - 48 x 72 inch
$14,500
Room Service (Lightbox)
David Drebin
Photography - 121.9 x 182.9 cm Photography - 48 x 72 inch
$36,000
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!