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17 octobre 2022
Raymond Attanasio
Painting - 90 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
€2,500
Antiquité et baroque, l’étude à Rome
Alexei Lantsev
Painting - 120 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€2,500
Dans le mille - série Semi-abstrait
Jackie Spaeter
Painting - 90 x 30 x 4 cm Painting - 35.4 x 11.8 x 1.6 inch
€990
Lumière d'Asie - série Semi-abstrait
Jackie Spaeter
Painting - 90 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
€990
Fluide - série dripping et abstraction
Sébastien Hauduc
Painting - 40 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
€900
Branchages - série Dripping et abstraction
Sébastien Hauduc
Painting - 110 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 43.3 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,375
S'7 dripping - série Abstraction
Sébastien Hauduc
Painting - 90 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
€1,500
Regarder passer les Nuages
Alexandra Battezzati
Painting - 120 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
€5,500
Monolith Inscription
Hiroya Yamada
Painting - 41 x 32.5 x 0.1 cm Painting - 16.1 x 12.8 x 0 inch
€1,642
29 mai 2021
Raymond Attanasio
Painting - 100 x 65 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 25.6 x 1.2 inch
€2,200 €1,100
Régis Marcon
Arnaud Baumann
Photography - 20 x 20 x 0.1 cm Photography - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0 inch
€450 €405
Graff N°2187 - XXL
Parscha Mirghawameddin
Painting - 165 x 165 x 0.1 cm Painting - 65 x 65 x 0 inch
€1,200
Cheveux d'encre - Amour 5
Feng Kaixuan
Painting - 60 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
€1,800
Cheveux d'encre - Amour 6
Feng Kaixuan
Painting - 60 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
€1,800
Cheveux d'encre - Amour 7
Feng Kaixuan
Painting - 40 x 84 x 1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 33.1 x 0.4 inch
€1,680
Composed gate 2
Yonatan Wondwosen
Painting - 75 x 75 x 2 cm Painting - 29.5 x 29.5 x 0.8 inch
€4,000
Sous les nuages, l'arc en ciel
Alexandra Battezzati
Painting - 120 x 150 x 4.5 cm Painting - 47.2 x 59.1 x 1.8 inch
€5,500
Blue Dot, black line series no.3
Sara Chaar
Painting - 120 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
€4,219
Without Title (Sans Titre)
Emerich Meerson
Painting - 100 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
€18,000
Méta-Terra - série Terre
Odile Lanoix
Painting - 50 x 61 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 24 x 0.8 inch
€840
Extra-Terra - série Terre
Odile Lanoix
Painting - 60 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
€1,080
Tissage urbain
Elsa Pallier (El'Pallier)
Painting - 73 x 92 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 36.2 x 0.8 inch
€1,440
Make Love Not War
Diederik Van Apple
Sculpture - 36 x 16 x 15 cm Sculpture - 14.2 x 6.3 x 5.9 inch
€695
Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Mick Jagger, NYC 1988
Bob Gruen
Photography - 35.6 x 27.9 x 5.1 cm Photography - 14 x 11 x 2 inch
€1,438
Abstract 2387
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 200 x 1.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 78.7 x 0.6 inch
€1,960 €1,372
Abstract composition in white
Tonino Maurizi
Sculpture - 28 x 16 x 2 cm Sculpture - 11 x 6.3 x 0.8 inch
€1,300
Sombre histoire - série Abstraction
Hervé Bauve
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,130
Possible victoire - série Abstraction
Hervé Bauve
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,130
Dreamscape Gold & White - Two tone paintings
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 152.4 x 121.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 60 x 48 x 1 inch
€5,561
32 décembre - Face à la mort numérique
Enki Bilal
Print - 18 x 25.5 x 1 cm Print - 7.1 x 10 x 0.4 inch
€320
Hello There Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print
Slim Aarons
Photography - 101.6 x 101.6 cm Photography - 40 x 40 inch
€3,550
Britt Ekland, 1969 Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print
Slim Aarons
Photography - 101.6 x 101.6 cm Photography - 40 x 40 inch
€3,550
George Cameron - Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print
Slim Aarons
Photography - 101.6 x 101.6 cm Photography - 40 x 40 inch
€3,550
CZ’s House 1955 Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print
Slim Aarons
Photography - 101.6 x 152.4 cm Photography - 40 x 60 inch
€3,550
Skiing Holiday Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print
Slim Aarons
Photography - 101.6 x 152.4 cm Photography - 40 x 60 inch
€3,550
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!