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J’ai demandé à la lune
Yohan Storti
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.4 inch
€2,000
Contemplation
Hervé Louail (Darlou)
Sculpture - 20 x 30 x 20 cm Sculpture - 7.9 x 11.8 x 7.9 inch
€2,800
Des éleveurs d´oiseaux
Ivonaldo Veloso de Melo
Painting - 81 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
€7,500
3 Bassins - Numéro 1
Louis Bottero
Painting - 40 x 59 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 23.2 x 0.8 inch
€1,400
Beige XI
Sonia Vinograd Guidotti
Fine Art Drawings - 33 x 24 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 13 x 9.4 x 0 inch
€1,490
Heartfelt Blooming Bear
Blooming Bears
Sculpture - 32 x 18 x 12 cm Sculpture - 12.6 x 7.1 x 4.7 inch
€3,596
Folding in Motion 10
Simcha Even-Chen
Sculpture - 16 x 30 x 11 cm Sculpture - 6.3 x 11.8 x 4.3 inch
€3,000
Rock Extract
Antoine Gaussin
Photography - 110 x 110 x 1 cm Photography - 43.3 x 43.3 x 0.4 inch
€4,600
Depli-Color (1)
Jean Degottex
Painting - 162 x 162 x 4 cm Painting - 63.8 x 63.8 x 1.6 inch
€110,000
Die Erde
Richard Laillier
Fine Art Drawings - 20 x 15 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.9 x 5.9 x 0.4 inch
€800
Accords et Suspensions IV
Jean-Claude Atzori
Painting - 65 x 92 x 1 cm Painting - 25.6 x 36.2 x 0.4 inch
€1,500
The Birth of Venus
Jeremy Bianco
Painting - 100 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
€3,800
The Feast of Trimalchio
AES + F
Photography - 42 x 55.5 x 1 cm Photography - 16.5 x 21.9 x 0.4 inch
€3,000
Deer in the moonlight. fairytale haven
Mexak Xazaryan
Painting - 50 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
€336
Oceani Mentali n°9
Luca Izzo
Photography - 50 x 70 x 0.4 cm Photography - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.2 inch
€350
Crane de Jouy
Mr Popart
Fine Art Drawings - 13.2 x 15.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 5.2 x 6.1 x 0 inch
€200
Villa moderniste Balion - Crète
Thierry Machuron
Painting - 97 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 38.2 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
€6,000
Tableaux N° 1 et N° 2
Thierry Robert
Sculpture - 39 x 25 x 1 cm Sculpture - 15.4 x 9.8 x 0.4 inch
€500
10th Anniversary
André Saraiva
Fine Art Drawings - 27 x 18.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10.6 x 7.3 inch
€2,000
Entre Vous & Nous
Jean-Claude Byandb
Photography - 60 x 45 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 17.7 x 0 inch
€610
Drab days and Coloured Minds #1
Giò Schiano
Sculpture - 50 x 11 x 11 cm Sculpture - 19.7 x 4.3 x 4.3 inch
€890
Je suis un monde. Série Champs Élysées
Christophe Faso
Painting - 76 x 56 cm Painting - 29.9 x 22 inch
€850
The depth of time and the holy heptagon
Soo Youn Kim
Fine Art Drawings - 23 x 23 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.1 x 9.1 x 0.1 inch
€1,280
Snoopy walking with Euro Bags gold series
Carlos Pun Art
Painting - 70 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
€1,323
Le visage du vent
Franco Salas Borquez
Painting - 160 x 180 x 2 cm Painting - 63 x 70.9 x 0.8 inch
€7,540
Calligraphing en l'air #6
Cody Choi
Photography - 75 x 50 x 1.5 cm Photography - 29.5 x 19.7 x 0.6 inch
€1,837
Inside the cleverness of a bee
Marija Tanaskovic Papadopoulos
Fine Art Drawings - 31 x 46 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12.2 x 18.1 x 0.1 inch
€14,000
Street art or graffiti
Juan Spray
Painting - 130 x 97 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 38.2 x 1.2 inch
€1,200
Cosmic Dandeliomn
Sylvia Fournier
Photography - 30 x 22 x 0.01 cm Photography - 11.8 x 8.7 x 0 inch
€280
Cenizas y diamantes XXII
Cecilia Méndez Casariego
Painting - 45 x 33 x 0.3 cm Painting - 17.7 x 13 x 0.1 inch
€575
Essai sur toile blanche
Jean-Louis Mendrisse
Painting - 33 x 41 x 3 cm Painting - 13 x 16.1 x 1.2 inch
€1,800
Gestures
Gina Vor
Fine Art Drawings - 55.5 x 76 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 21.9 x 29.9 x 0 inch
€600
Les amoureux du pavillon Baltard désaffecté
Pierre Boulat
Photography - 36 x 24 x 0.3 cm Photography - 14.2 x 9.4 x 0.1 inch
€1,000
HRH Princess Elizabeth With HRH The Prince of Wales
Cecil Beaton
Photography - 76.2 x 76.2 cm Photography - 30 x 30 inch
€1,213
Dalmatian pelican - Pelecanus crispus
Ivaylo Zafirov
Photography - 37 x 50 cm Photography - 14.6 x 19.7 inch
€210
Siréne aux serpents
Orphné Achéron
Fine Art Drawings - 40.5 x 29.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.9 x 11.6 inch
€1,150
Giant Ant Lion
David Roberts
Fine Art Drawings - 97 x 103 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 38.2 x 40.6 x 0.4 inch
€9,200
Continent Américain
Clara Castagné
Painting - 110 x 92 x 2.5 cm Painting - 43.3 x 36.2 x 1 inch
€4,500
I Feel 'T Upon My Bones
Cigdem Onat
Painting - 92 x 89 x 2.5 cm Painting - 36.2 x 35 x 1 inch
€2,890
I love you this much
Johnson Tsang
Sculpture - 20 x 14.5 x 13 cm Sculpture - 7.9 x 5.7 x 5.1 inch
€1,500
Terra Incognita - Le Grand Canyon
Guillaume Pépy
Photography - 70 x 105 cm Photography - 27.6 x 41.3 inch
€1,400
Afrodite Bella tra le belle
Alessandro La Motta
Painting - 120 x 81 x 1 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.9 x 0.4 inch
€1,100
Goose-in-Love-with-Boy-in-Love-with-Goose ; Rumination Concerning Interspecies and Same-Sex Marriage, Erie Country fair, Hambourg, New York
Les Krims
Photography - 38.7 x 49.8 x 0.5 cm Photography - 15.2 x 19.6 x 0.2 inch
€1,200
Metropolitan Luz 84
Joan Llaverias
Painting - 80 x 170 x 0.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 66.9 x 0.2 inch
€1,500
Stubborn optimiste
Nina Schipoff
Photography - 50 x 75 x 0.5 cm Photography - 19.7 x 29.5 x 0.2 inch
€1,500
E=M love au carré - 2
In Love Street Art
Painting - 20 x 27.5 x 0.8 cm Painting - 7.9 x 10.8 x 0.3 inch
€550
XXI 19 021 36
Pierre Muckensturm
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 inch
€1,200
The Thinker
Rossella Mercedes
Fine Art Drawings - 42 x 29 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 11.4 x 0 inch
€188
White Top 38, Red Bottom 12, Red Dot
Anna Celie Nastasia Meyer
Sculpture - 51 x 20 x 19 cm Sculpture - 20.1 x 7.9 x 7.5 inch
€5,370
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!