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Ambiance de plage
Clothilde Lasserre
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
€670
It's a Tie 1 of 3
Larissa Schlick
Painting - 120 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
€3,000
Touch my shadaow
Frédéric Vangeebergen
Fine Art Drawings - 38.5 x 28.5 x 0.01 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.2 x 11.2 x 0 inch
€500
Vintage White Sofa
Charles Hollis
Design - 90 x 230 x 75 cm Design - 35.4 x 90.6 x 29.5 inch
€11,000
Artistic tooth - Black Leg
Hilbertas Jatkevicius
Sculpture - 18.5 x 10.4 x 9.5 cm Sculpture - 7.3 x 4.1 x 3.7 inch
€260
All Mixed Up
Danny J. Martinez Van Dame One
Painting - 30 x 24 x 4 cm Painting - 11.8 x 9.4 x 1.6 inch
€2,900
La Voute
Venet Hervé
Fine Art Drawings - 80 x 60 x 3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 31.5 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
€700
Mr et Mme Hulot - Photographie scène de vie en bord de mer
Denis Morel
Photography - 20 x 30 x 0.1 cm Photography - 7.9 x 11.8 x 0 inch
€440
Sagamore tall bowl Tondo Doni
Mario Cioni
Design - 20 x 25 x 25 cm Design - 7.9 x 9.8 x 9.8 inch
€790
Movimientos geometricos 3
Benbela Abounassif
Sculpture - 48 x 48 x 4 cm Sculpture - 18.9 x 18.9 x 1.6 inch
€5,000
White Dancer
Ulrich Trüssel
Photography - 93 x 93 x 3 cm Photography - 36.6 x 36.6 x 1.2 inch
€3,000
Rose épanouie
Françoise De Beaucé
Painting - 81 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 31.9 x 39.4 x 1 inch
€4,900
Tingari cycle (RT03/0611BPG)
Ronnie Tjampitjinpa
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 1.9 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 0.75 inch
€11,986
Ring-shin Gold
Teruri Yamawaki
Sculpture - 45 x 34 x 30 cm Sculpture - 17.7 x 13.4 x 11.8 inch
€3,151
Wave touch of gold
Ans Pullens
Sculpture - 95 x 75 x 12 cm Sculpture - 37.4 x 29.5 x 4.7 inch
€5,948
Afro blue - Série Street-art
Glad_is_murmuring
Painting - 30 x 30 x 1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
€200
Bateau à sec sur le lac Baïkal
Christophe Gibourg
Photography - 100 x 100 x 1 cm Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
€750
Mujer con guitarra
Francisca Morales Alliende
Painting - 34 x 49 x 1 cm Painting - 13.4 x 19.3 x 0.4 inch
€3,411
Portrait of a Boy
Anthony Roaland
Fine Art Drawings - 41 x 30 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.1 x 11.8 x 0 inch
€380
Sans
Michel Macréau
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
€8,500
Przywilej (privilege)
Bartlomiej Zalucki
Painting - 100 x 100 x 1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
€2,850
Madame et Monsieur
Lætitia Disone
Sculpture - 46 x 64 x 3 cm Sculpture - 18.1 x 25.2 x 1.2 inch
€9,500
Personajes en fondo blanco
Enrique Pichardo
Painting - 40 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
€361
The first white snow
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
€800
L'homme et la mer
Isabelle Fournet
Painting - 146 x 97 x 2 cm Painting - 57.5 x 38.2 x 0.8 inch
€2,490 €1,743
Desert Goddess
Silvia Calmejane
Painting - 140 x 100 x 1 cm Painting - 55.1 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
€7,600
Dusk In Berlin (Lightbox)
David Drebin
Photography - 101.6 x 203.2 cm Photography - 40 x 80 inch
Price upon request
Dusk In Berlin (L)
David Drebin
Photography - 101.6 x 203.2 cm Photography - 40 x 80 inch
Price upon request
Dusk In Berlin (M)
David Drebin
Photography - 76.2 x 152.4 cm Photography - 30 x 60 inch
Price upon request
Capri (Lightbox)
David Drebin
Photography - 101.6 x 268 cm Photography - 40 x 105.5 inch
Price upon request
Capri (L)
David Drebin
Photography - 101.6 x 268 cm Photography - 40 x 105.5 inch
Price upon request
Capri (M)
David Drebin
Photography - 101.6 x 268 cm Photography - 40 x 105.5 inch
Price upon request
Above The Clouds (M)
David Drebin
Photography - 76.2 x 182.9 cm Photography - 30 x 72 inch
Price upon request
The Swan Lake of Love
Yasna Godovanik
Painting - 100 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,250
Snowy mountain in winter
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
€900
Starry sky black and white abstraction dropping Pop Art
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 40 x 30 x 4 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 1.6 inch
€790
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!