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Winter's Dream
Kenneth Halvorsen
Painting - 152.4 x 101.6 x 3.8 cm Painting - 60 x 40 x 1.5 inch
€7,268
Winter's Dream
Kenneth Halvorsen
Painting - 152.4 x 101.6 x 3.8 cm Painting - 60 x 40 x 1.5 inch
€7,048
You can do what she would want
Joana Choumali
Photography - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Photography - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€15,000
Casse-toi pauv’con
Fabrizio Saracino
Sculpture - 37 x 64 x 3.5 cm Sculpture - 14.6 x 25.2 x 1.4 inch
€2,300
Still life
Reynold Arnould
Fine Art Drawings - 11.5 x 16 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 4.5 x 6.3 x 0.1 inch
€300
70' - 80' MyGeneration
Sokratis Evgenidis
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
€7,900
Miami 02-14 02bn
Luca Artioli
Photography - 114.3 x 177.8 x 0.3 cm Photography - 45 x 70 x 0.1 inch
€4,794
Downtown Miami nov 2013 05bn
Luca Artioli
Photography - 114.3 x 177.8 x 0.3 cm Photography - 45 x 70 x 0.1 inch
€4,794
Miami Stripes 09 02bn
Luca Artioli
Photography - 114.3 x 177.8 x 0.3 cm Photography - 45 x 70 x 0.1 inch
€4,794
Old cars Miami 06bn.
Luca Artioli
Photography - 114.3 x 177.8 x 0.3 cm Photography - 45 x 70 x 0.1 inch
€4,794
Miami Downtown 15bn
Luca Artioli
Photography - 114.3 x 177.8 x 0.3 cm Photography - 45 x 70 x 0.1 inch
€4,793
Miami 10partbn2
Luca Artioli
Photography - 114.3 x 177.8 x 0.3 cm Photography - 45 x 70 x 0.1 inch
€4,793
Art Deco ott.c
Luca Artioli
Photography - 114.3 x 177.8 x 0.3 cm Photography - 45 x 70 x 0.1 inch
€4,794
Art Deco ott.b.
Luca Artioli
Photography - 114.3 x 177.8 x 0.3 cm Photography - 45 x 70 x 0.1 inch
€4,793
Alambicco Plate for Martini & Rossi
Piero Fornasetti
Design - 23.5 x 23.5 x 4 cm Design - 9.3 x 9.3 x 1.6 inch
€350
Skyphos Plate for Martini & Rossi
Piero Fornasetti
Design - 23.5 x 23.5 x 4 cm Design - 9.3 x 9.3 x 1.6 inch
€340
Servizio Per Porto Plate for Martini & Rossi
Piero Fornasetti
Design - 23.5 x 23.5 x 93 cm Design - 9.3 x 9.3 x 36.6 inch
€350
Carro Vinario Plate for Martini & Rossi
Piero Fornasetti
Design - 23.5 x 23.5 x 4 cm Design - 9.3 x 9.3 x 1.6 inch
€360
Il Primo Tino Plate for Martini & Rossi
Piero Fornasetti
Design - 23.2 x 23.2 x 4 cm Design - 9.1 x 9.1 x 1.6 inch
€350
Porron Plate for Martini & Rossi
Piero Fornasetti
Design - 23.5 x 23.5 x 4 cm Design - 9.3 x 9.3 x 1.6 inch
€350
Rhyton Plate for Martini & Rossi
Piero Fornasetti
Design - 23.5 x 23 x 4 cm Design - 9.3 x 9.1 x 1.6 inch
€350
Trozzella Plate for Martini & Rossi
Piero Fornasetti
Design - 23.5 x 23.5 x 4 cm Design - 9.3 x 9.3 x 1.6 inch
€350
In Each of Our Cosmoses
Jihun Ju
Photography - 35 x 35 x 0.1 cm Photography - 13.8 x 13.8 x 0 inch
€940
Louise Brooks
Paloma Castello
Fine Art Drawings - 41.9 x 29.5 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 11.6 x 0.1 inch
€479
Landscape with a Moon Jar
Mun-Hyun Cho
Fine Art Drawings - 130.3 x 162 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 51.3 x 63.8 x 0.1 inch
€15,000
Sketch
Bernard Bécan
Fine Art Drawings - 20 x 26 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.9 x 10.2 x 0 inch
€200
Curva 16/34
J/Y Delaunay-Israël
Fine Art Drawings - 108 x 108 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 42.5 x 42.5 x 0.4 inch
€1,980
Dessein 3
J/Y Delaunay-Israël
Fine Art Drawings - 110 x 60 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 43.3 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
€1,480
Untitled 34 from the series of INtheVISIBLE
Arslan Sükan
Photography - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
€2,397
Untitled 6 from the series of INtheVISIBLE
Arslan Sükan
Photography - 180 x 250 x 0.1 cm Photography - 70.9 x 98.4 x 0 inch
€4,794
Untitled 5 from the series of INtheVISIBLE
Arslan Sükan
Photography - 170 x 255 x 0.1 cm Photography - 66.9 x 100.4 x 0 inch
€4,794
Untitled 33 from the series of INtheVISIBLE
Arslan Sükan
Photography - 70 x 100 x 0.1 cm Photography - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0 inch
€3,356
Untitled 30 from the series of INtheVISIBLE
Arslan Sükan
Photography - 140 x 110 x 0.1 cm Photography - 55.1 x 43.3 x 0 inch
€4,315
Série: Se faire passer pour Mao
Nathalie Daoust
Photography - 60 x 90 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 inch
€2,500
Sin título. Serie Blanca
Dario Berterreche
Painting - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
€450
Sin título. Serie Blanca
Dario Berterreche
Painting - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
€450
Sin título. Serie Blanca
Dario Berterreche
Painting - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
€450
Sin título. Serie Blanca
Dario Berterreche
Painting - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
€450
Serenity on the Horizon
Michael Milkin
Painting - 61.5 x 91.5 x 2.5 cm Painting - 24.2 x 36 x 1 inch
€5,561
The Arms of Winter
Rachael Dalzell
Painting - 140 x 110 x 6 cm Painting - 55.1 x 43.3 x 2.4 inch
€6,669
I Wish I Was A Meme
James Jarvis
Fine Art Drawings - 30.5 x 21 x 2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12 x 8.3 x 0.8 inch
€2,397
Moment de tendresse - série Chevaux et Paysage de Camargue
Myriam Colart
Painting - 20 x 20 x 2 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.8 inch
€150
A Dog, a cat and the 9 suns
Uy Nguyen
Painting - 70 x 100 x 1.7 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0.7 inch
€2,800
Cauchemar du 20 janvier 2021
Quentin Liu
Painting - 130 x 90 x 4 cm Painting - 51.2 x 35.4 x 1.6 inch
€4,800
Glass elegy no. 13
Joseph Adolphe
Painting - 101 x 76 x 4 cm Painting - 39.8 x 29.9 x 1.6 inch
€16,600
If you don't stand for something
Fabio Napoleoni
Print - 91.4 x 30.5 x 5.1 cm Print - 36 x 12 x 2 inch
€2,253
Winter's Breath
Bob Palmerton
Fine Art Drawings - 68.6 x 53.3 x 1.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27 x 21 x 0.5 inch
€5,849
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!