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Éric Dabancourt
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 30 x 2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$380
La Bouée - Série village de belle-île-en-mer
Yves Guillard
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,093
Marée basse - Série village et port de Belle-île-en-mer
Yves Guillard
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,674
Les quais - Série village et port de Belle-île-en-mer
Yves Guillard
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,674
Sauzon - Série village et port de Belle-île-en-mer
Yves Guillard
Painting - 100 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
$1,674
On Top Of The World II (4)
Tyler Shields
Photography - 213.4 x 160 cm Photography - 84 x 63 inch
$50,000
On Top Of The World II (3)
Tyler Shields
Photography - 182.9 x 142.2 cm Photography - 72 x 56 inch
$25,000
On Top Of The World II (2)
Tyler Shields
Photography - 152.4 x 114.3 cm Photography - 60 x 45 inch
$15,000
On Top Of The World II (1)
Tyler Shields
Photography - 101.6 x 76.2 cm Photography - 40 x 30 inch
$10,000
Visions of the dreaming maiden
Sergey Khachatryan
Painting - 34 x 44 x 2 cm Painting - 13.4 x 17.3 x 0.8 inch
$1,200
Have you seen the moon tonight? 2
Laura Spring
Painting - 50.8 x 50.8 cm Painting - 20 x 20 inch
$610
Playing with mother
Sergey Khachatryan
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,500
2022/12-1- GA55
Guillaume Allemand
Sculpture - 50 x 50 x 3 cm Sculpture - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$1,674
A silver and a black angel were flying together
Rafael Sliks
Painting - 120 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$13,395
Wounded Birds
Ritchelly Oliveira
Painting - 186 x 141 x 3 cm Painting - 73.2 x 55.5 x 1.2 inch
$20,472
Arquitectura del alma XIV
Martínez Buades Ramón
Painting - 200 x 200 x 3.5 cm Painting - 78.7 x 78.7 x 1.4 inch
$7,256
Colourful Brain by David
Dervis Akdemir
Sculpture - 75 x 30 x 25 cm Sculpture - 29.5 x 11.8 x 9.8 inch
$981
Hotel Chelsea. New York.
Victoria Cohen
Photography - 67.6 x 101.6 x 0.3 cm Photography - 26.6 x 40 x 0.1 inch
$3,200
El carrusel
Jaume Queralt
Fine Art Drawings - 75 x 60 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 29.5 x 23.6 x 0.1 inch
$2,456
Jessie - Halles Alstom - Nantes - série photo Danse Noir et Blanc
Lucas Perrigot
Photography - 30 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$324
Pépé, une seconde avant - Festival Fête du Bruit - Saint Nolff - Concert du groupe Deluxe - série photo Noir et Blanc
Lucas Perrigot
Photography - 30 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$324
At the end of the tunnel
Baptiste Laurent
Painting - 50 x 50 x 0.3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$670
La cage où le silence fût brisé par la voix d'un homme au bord des larmes
Sandra Chevrier
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$11,721
Philippe Zdar, (chalk)
Xavier Veilhan
Print - 31.9 x 11.5 x 7.4 cm Print - 12.6 x 4.5 x 2.9 inch
$3,684
Contemporary portrait "Don't Tell Me what to Do"
Nataliya Bagatskaya
Painting - 90 x 70 x 1.8 cm Painting - 35.4 x 27.6 x 0.7 inch
$2,456
The Hollowed Nexus II
Palak Modi
Painting - 91.44 x 91.44 x 3 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1.2 inch
$2,735
The Hollowed Nexus I
Palak Modi
Painting - 91.44 x 91.44 x 3 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1.2 inch
$2,735
Porsche 911 Turbo S
Angélique Dufossé
Painting - 50 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
$2,780
Winter on the Desna
Andrey Chebotaru
Painting - 80 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 1 inch
$4,400
Le vol de la paix (a tribute to Picasso)
Dr. Love
Painting - 30 x 40 x 0.2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
$55
Titty et Coucou au marché, Saint-Denis
Enfant Précoce / Francis Essoua Kalu
Painting - 180 x 156 x 2 cm Painting - 70.9 x 61.4 x 0.8 inch
$15,628
DB5 Aston Martin
Angélique Dufossé
Painting - 50 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,775
Chanel skateboard
Guillaume & Anthony
Sculpture - 20 x 80 x 3 cm Sculpture - 7.9 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$1,228
Lacoste skateboard
Guillaume & Anthony
Sculpture - 20 x 80 x 3 cm Sculpture - 7.9 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$1,228
“Banksy style – Balloon girl” skateboard
Guillaume & Anthony
Sculpture - 80 x 20 x 3 cm Sculpture - 31.5 x 7.9 x 1.2 inch
$1,228
Playmobil Christian Dior
Guillaume & Anthony
Sculpture - 63 x 15 x 10 cm Sculpture - 24.8 x 5.9 x 3.9 inch
$2,009
Playmobil Chanel
Guillaume & Anthony
Sculpture - 63 x 15 x 10 cm Sculpture - 24.8 x 5.9 x 3.9 inch
$2,009
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!