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Dreaming water mountains
Francesca Borgo
Painting - 166 x 140 x 4 cm Painting - 65.4 x 55.1 x 1.6 inch
$7,090
Triptyque one dollar
Claire Godet
Fine Art Drawings - 19 x 15.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.5 x 6.1 x 0 inch
$56
Paris, couple sur le Pont Neuf
Olivia Bonnamour
Photography - 30 x 45 cm Photography - 11.8 x 17.7 inch
$506
Paris, Beauté et religion dans le Marais
Olivia Bonnamour
Photography - 30 x 45 cm Photography - 11.8 x 17.7 inch
$506
Paris, Jeune homme dans le Marais
Olivia Bonnamour
Photography - 30 x 45 x 1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 17.7 x 0.4 inch
$506
Paris, Jeune couple sur le Pont Neuf
Olivia Bonnamour
Photography - 30 x 45 cm Photography - 11.8 x 17.7 inch
$506
Paris, Couple de japonais aux Palais Royal
Olivia Bonnamour
Photography - 30 x 45 cm Photography - 11.8 x 17.7 inch
$506
New York, Washington Square
Olivia Bonnamour
Photography - 30 x 45 cm Photography - 11.8 x 17.7 inch
$506
Paris, 9e arrondissement 2022
Olivia Bonnamour
Photography - 30 x 40 cm Photography - 11.8 x 15.7 inch
$506
Watching the fireworks
Gordon Barker
Painting - 30.5 x 30.5 x 0.3 cm Painting - 12 x 12 x 0.1 inch
$275
Skating on the pond
Gordon Barker
Painting - 30 x 30 x 0.3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$275
Fun on a winters day
Gordon Barker
Painting - 30 x 30 x 0.3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$275
Last train home for the holidays
Gordon Barker
Painting - 40.9 x 40.9 x 0.5 cm Painting - 16.1 x 16.1 x 0.2 inch
$432
What a wonderful tree
Gordon Barker
Painting - 25.4 x 34 x 0.3 cm Painting - 10 x 13.4 x 0.1 inch
$288
La soupirante
Guillaume Lachapelle
Sculpture - 7.9 x 20.1 x 7.1 cm Sculpture - 3.1 x 7.9 x 2.8 inch
$2,697
Balcon mécanique
Guillaume Lachapelle
Sculpture - 25.4 x 20.3 x 15.2 cm Sculpture - 10 x 8 x 6 inch
$4,270
The forward march loses ground
Jessica Houston
Photography - 53.3 x 83.8 x 2.5 cm Photography - 21 x 33 x 1 inch
$3,034
Ignition
The Catman
Fine Art Drawings - 100 x 70 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$326
Following little p to see the world
Raffaella
Painting - 60.5 x 72.5 x 3 cm Painting - 23.8 x 28.5 x 1.2 inch
$3,371
Miami heat kid cup
Léo & Steph
Sculpture - 50 x 14 x 14 cm Sculpture - 19.7 x 5.5 x 5.5 inch
$12,360 $10,506
Conversation with wave and the moon
Sokratis Evgenidis
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$7,753
L'amoureuse
Fabienne Bonneau (Fablues)
Painting - 29.7 x 21 x 0.01 cm Painting - 11.7 x 8.3 x 0 inch
$281
Rainy day In June L 1
Peter Nottrott
Painting - 155 x 85 x 4 cm Painting - 61 x 33.5 x 1.6 inch
$2,461
Space grandfather Wang’s house colour
Raffaella
Painting - 60.5 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 23.8 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$2,753
28-Tour de France 2022 13ème étape Bourg d'Oisan-Saint-Etienne. La côte de Saint Romain en Gal.
Jérémy Lempin
Photography - 30 x 40 cm Photography - 11.8 x 15.7 inch
$337
The pub
Reynold Arnould
Fine Art Drawings - 17 x 21 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 6.7 x 8.3 x 0.1 inch
$405
In The Restaurant
Reynold Arnould
Fine Art Drawings - 25 x 31.5 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.8 x 12.4 x 0.1 inch
$494
Marseille station
Reynold Arnould
Fine Art Drawings - 25 x 31.5 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.8 x 12.4 x 0.1 inch
$382
Melting snow
Victor Roschkov
Fine Art Drawings - 27.9 x 54.6 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11 x 21.5 x 0.1 inch
$418
Roasted fish head and tail
Vyusal Rain
Painting - 25.4 x 30.5 x 2 cm Painting - 10 x 12 x 0.8 inch
$140
White pants, Red bongos 2
Valerie Vescovi
Painting - 30.5 x 30.5 x 2 cm Painting - 12 x 12 x 0.8 inch
$425
Slim: Blue energy 1
Peter Nottrott
Painting - 80 x 200 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 78.7 x 1.6 inch
$2,753
Jeune femme au transat
Sophie de la Happy Funky Family
Painting - 20 x 20 x 2 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.8 inch
$506
Jenny Owens Birds Series
Jenny Owens
Photography - 15 x 20 x 0.1 cm Photography - 5.9 x 7.9 x 0 inch
$449
Aperapinkturtle and minimo
Aperato
Sculpture - 20 x 24 x 15 cm Sculpture - 7.9 x 9.4 x 5.9 inch
$3,259
Etude pour les desseins
J/Y Delaunay-Israël
Fine Art Drawings - 49 x 84 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.3 x 33.1 x 0.4 inch
$562
Écharpe noire et blanche 238 ref BDNW11904
Atelier Vionnet
Fine Art Drawings - 27 x 21 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10.6 x 8.3 inch
$360
Écharpe noire et blanche 34 ref BDNW11701
Atelier Vionnet
Fine Art Drawings - 27 x 21 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10.6 x 8.3 inch
$360
Seesaw rm 05_chrysanthemum
Giljung Yoon
Print - 45 x 45 x 2 cm Print - 17.7 x 17.7 x 0.8 inch
$3,652
Silhouette emballée et contaminée (Hélène)
Jean-Robert Drouillard
Sculpture - 175.3 x 44.5 x 40.6 cm Sculpture - 69 x 17.5 x 16 inch
$12,360
Silhouette emballée et contaminée (Rosalie)
Jean-Robert Drouillard
Sculpture - 156.2 x 41.9 x 43.2 cm Sculpture - 61.5 x 16.5 x 17 inch
$11,237
Silhouette emballée et contaminée (son mari)
Jean-Robert Drouillard
Sculpture - 174 x 76.2 x 43.2 cm Sculpture - 68.5 x 30 x 17 inch
$13,484
100 Marches #13 Eating
Hégémon (Hedge) Chaignon
Photography - 50 x 70 cm Photography - 19.7 x 27.6 inch
$955
Colonial doorway
Luis Alberto Quispe
Fine Art Drawings - 18 x 13 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.1 x 5.1 x 0.2 inch
$315
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!