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Sci-Fi Library (Artist Proof Edition 5)
Lucio Forte
Print - 30 x 40 x 0.1 cm Print - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0 inch
€89
Still life for bird temple #8
Mark Gaskin
Painting - 53.3 x 61 x 5.1 cm Painting - 21 x 24 x 2 inch
€3,835
The Spirit of Love
Delyafruz Bagirova
Painting - 100 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
€2,800
Bernard Loiseau
Arnaud Baumann
Photography - 20 x 20 x 0.1 cm Photography - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0 inch
€250 €238
Under the Veil - black version
Elisa Bonotti
Painting - 30 x 30 x 4 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 1.6 inch
€320
Dots variation bleu
Ferri Garcès
Sculpture - 50 x 50 x 4 cm Sculpture - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
€4,500
Boss having a hair cut
Suthamma (Ta) Byrne
Painting - 130 x 180 x 4 cm Painting - 51.2 x 70.9 x 1.6 inch
€5,980
Dialogue 01
Matthieu Venot
Photography - 50 x 62.5 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 24.6 x 0 inch
€1,200
Samuraicat’s Inkan Resonance , Silver
Hiro Ando
Sculpture - 50 x 50 x 15 cm Sculpture - 19.7 x 19.7 x 5.9 inch
€5,000
Space granduncle’s house dining room and kitchen colour
Raffaella
Painting - 53 x 45.5 x 3 cm Painting - 20.9 x 17.9 x 1.2 inch
€1,950
Space grandfather Wang’s house garden colour
Raffaella
Painting - 53 x 45.5 x 3 cm Painting - 20.9 x 17.9 x 1.2 inch
€1,950
Canvas 180
Frantisek Florian
Painting - 122.9 x 149.9 x 3.8 cm Painting - 48.4 x 59 x 1.5 inch
€2,294
Stormy Sea 2022.2
Christine Keruth
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.8 inch
€7,262
Fanfare Irakienne
José Nicolas
Photography - 40 x 60 x 1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
€900
Burkina 1998 Coupe d'Afrique des Nations
José Nicolas
Photography - 60 x 90 x 1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.4 inch
€1,500
Mystic in the same place
a Ee
Fine Art Drawings - 21.4 x 14.7 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.4 x 5.8 x 0.4 inch
€5,112
Black Elegance (Woman)
Shina Ernest Odofin
Painting - 137.2 x 96.5 x 2.5 cm Painting - 54 x 38 x 1 inch
€3,068
Electric shock experience -black- (4)
AyaNe AyaNe
Print - 119 x 58.4 x 3.2 cm Print - 46.9 x 23 x 1.3 inch
€5,900
Holding fast
Marc Bodie
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 15 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 5.9 x 0.1 inch
€650
Hercule à l'obélisque
Ivan Theimer
Sculpture - 37 x 7 x 7 cm Sculpture - 14.6 x 2.8 x 2.8 inch
€11,000
Safe Harbor
Bernadette Youngquist
Painting - 91 x 91 x 4 cm Painting - 35.8 x 35.8 x 1.6 inch
€5,500
She is delightfully chaotic
Marisol Evora
Painting - 60 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
€7,553
See to the Sea
Rina Murao
Sculpture - 115 x 405 x 170 cm Sculpture - 45.3 x 159.4 x 66.9 inch
€38,222
The Sea at Dawn
Rina Murao
Sculpture - 150 x 253 x 253 cm Sculpture - 59.1 x 99.6 x 99.6 inch
€60,764
Bottiglia e matite
Massimiliano Carisdeo
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€600
La lucidité est la blessure la plus rapprochée du soleil René Char
Geoffrey Callènes
Painting - 65 x 54 x 0.5 cm Painting - 25.6 x 21.3 x 0.2 inch
€1,600
Point de fuite
Geoffrey Callènes
Painting - 60 x 73 x 0.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 28.7 x 0.2 inch
€1,700
Woman with lute ( Ervina Kupferova )
Frantisek Drtikol
Photography - 11 x 7 cm Photography - 4.3 x 2.8 inch
€700
Portrait of Giuseppe Ungaretti
Pericle Fazzini
Print - 50.5 x 39.5 x 0.1 cm Print - 19.9 x 15.6 x 0 inch
€480
Dancing Woman 2018 I
Yiyan Zhou
Sculpture - 17.5 x 23.5 x 7 cm Sculpture - 6.9 x 9.3 x 2.8 inch
€5,200
Daisies - digital still life
Nadezhda Oleg Lyahova
Print - 135 x 300 x 0.3 cm Print - 53.1 x 118.1 x 0.1 inch
€3,000
Triangle noir demi jésus
Leopoldo Nóvoa
Print - 38.5 x 53.5 x 0.3 cm Print - 15.2 x 21.1 x 0.1 inch
€350
Arbre Bistro 5
Bernard Lassus
Fine Art Drawings - 20 x 20 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.9 x 7.9 inch
€700
Arbre Bistro 4
Bernard Lassus
Fine Art Drawings - 20 x 20 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.9 x 7.9 inch
€700
Arbre Bistro 3
Bernard Lassus
Fine Art Drawings - 20 x 20 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.9 x 7.9 inch
€700
Arbre Bistro 2
Bernard Lassus
Fine Art Drawings - 20 x 12 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.9 x 4.7 inch
€600
Untitled Morocco 77
Ziad Naitaddi
Photography - 30 x 45 x 2 cm Photography - 11.8 x 17.7 x 0.8 inch
€1,100
Untitled Morocco 78
Ziad Naitaddi
Photography - 45 x 30 x 2 cm Photography - 17.7 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
€1,100
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!