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Apple tree in the snow
Simon Kozhin
Painting - 20 x 30 x 0.3 cm Painting - 7.9 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
€3,600
Chapelle perdue
Christophe Jacrot
Photography - 60 x 90 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0 inch
€2,700
Sans titre
Menachem Gueffen
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 28 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11 x 0.4 inch
€780
Temple of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God in Kolomenskoye
Simon Kozhin
Painting - 25 x 30 x 0.3 cm Painting - 9.8 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
€3,400
Sans titre
Menachem Gueffen
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 28 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11 x 0.4 inch
€780
Sans titre
Menachem Gueffen
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 28 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11 x 0.4 inch
€580
Sans titre
Menachem Gueffen
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 28 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11 x 0.4 inch
€780
Les Waka Starz, Wakaliga, Ouganda
Frédéric Noy
Photography - 40 x 50 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch
€650
Sans titre
Menachem Gueffen
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 28 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11 x 0.4 inch
€780
February. Meadery. Kolomenskoye
Simon Kozhin
Painting - 20 x 30 x 0.3 cm Painting - 7.9 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
€2,800
Trees and church (Bavaria)
Christophe Jacrot
Photography - 70 x 105 x 0.1 cm Photography - 27.6 x 41.3 x 0 inch
€3,200
Déjeuner dans l’herbe
Serge Kalinowski
Painting - 114 x 146 x 5 cm Painting - 44.9 x 57.5 x 2 inch
€3,500
Neige d'autonome no 2 diptych
Charles Carson
Painting - 152.4 x 61 x 5.1 cm Painting - 60 x 24 x 2 inch
€21,478
Eucaryota Chromosoïc
Laurent Lamarche
Sculpture - 20 x 15 x 13 cm Sculpture - 7.9 x 5.9 x 5.1 inch
€2,400
Chromo in Vitro
Laurent Lamarche
Sculpture - 25.5 x 25.5 x 13 cm Sculpture - 10 x 10 x 5.1 inch
€2,400
Sans titre
Mathilde Anclin
Fine Art Drawings - 29.5 x 42 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.6 x 16.5 inch
€720
Gray day. Izmailovsky park
Simon Kozhin
Painting - 13 x 24 x 0.3 cm Painting - 5.1 x 9.4 x 0.1 inch
€2,400
Boulevard in winter. Old Maryino
Simon Kozhin
Painting - 25 x 35 x 0.3 cm Painting - 9.8 x 13.8 x 0.1 inch
€3,200
Oxford
Simon Kozhin
Fine Art Drawings - 21.6 x 30.6 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.5 x 12 x 0 inch
€2,397
Polyptique 4 saisons bouleaux
Jeong Min Lee
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
€360
Haiti 2014, Jalousie 2
José Nicolas
Photography - 60 x 90 x 1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.4 inch
€1,500
Tag 6
Darryl McCray (Cornbread)
Fine Art Drawings - 14 x 11 x 2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 5.5 x 4.3 x 0.8 inch
€150
Territory over land
Jessica Houston
Photography - 35.6 x 50.8 x 2.5 cm Photography - 14 x 20 x 1 inch
€1,900
Geological markers
Jessica Houston
Photography - 35.6 x 50.8 x 2.5 cm Photography - 14 x 20 x 1 inch
€1,900
Drawing in water
Jessica Houston
Fine Art Drawings - 25.4 x 35.6 x 2.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10 x 14 x 1 inch
€1,400
The nine of us worked things out amongst us from the beginning to end without any orders being given by anybody.
Jessica Houston
Painting - 22.9 x 30.5 x 5.1 cm Painting - 9 x 12 x 2 inch
€1,800
The steam from our own small funnel faded blue on the twilit water as we crept along under the towering pale wall of ice.
Jessica Houston
Painting - 22.9 x 30.5 x 5.1 cm Painting - 9 x 12 x 2 inch
€1,800
…last Thule of the South, which lies on our maps and globes like a white cloud, a void, fringed here and there with scraps of coastline, dubious capes, suppositious islands, headlands that may or may not be there: Antarctica
Jessica Houston
Painting - 22.9 x 30.5 x 5.1 cm Painting - 9 x 12 x 2 inch
€1,800
A summary report of the yelcho expedition to the antarctic, 1909-1910.
Jessica Houston
Painting - 22.9 x 30.5 x 5.1 cm Painting - 9 x 12 x 2 inch
€1,800
Exposed as our camp was to every wind, we built no rigid structures above ground. We set up tents to shelter in while we dug a series of cubicles in the ice itself.
Jessica Houston
Painting - 22.9 x 30.5 x 5.1 cm Painting - 9 x 12 x 2 inch
€1,800
Backstage XI
Sven Pfrommer
Photography - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
€1,890
Walls - 'Free jazz (Black)' #1
Marco Guglielmi (Reimmortal)
Painting - 120 x 200 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 78.7 x 0.8 inch
€30,000
Sally's Getaway
Mark Jeffrey Weiss
Painting - 117 x 117 x 4 cm Painting - 46.1 x 46.1 x 1.6 inch
€3,330
Imagine Series - Hope
Sung Hee Kim
Painting - 100 x 80.3 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.6 x 0.8 inch
€7,000
Chaos. Victoire des Bleus à la coupe du Monde 2018, Paris, France
Eric Bouvet
Photography - 60 x 70 x 1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch
€2,000
Chaos. Manifestations pro-européenne Euromaidan, 2014, Place Maidan, Kyev, Ukraine
Eric Bouvet
Photography - 60 x 70 x 1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch
€2,000
Futuri Possibili III
Daniela Sandroni
Painting - 48 x 33 x 2 cm Painting - 18.9 x 13 x 0.8 inch
€6,205
Backstage IX
Sven Pfrommer
Photography - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
€1,790
Berlin art XV
Sven Pfrommer
Photography - 140 x 70 x 4 cm Photography - 55.1 x 27.6 x 1.6 inch
€1,390
Rare ‘fragments collection’
Sandra Szaja
Painting - 100 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
€14,500
Unpredictable past - Paesaggio Poetico
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1.5 inch
€2,397
Golden desert of Dubai
Sandra Szaja
Painting - 130 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
€9,000
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
Graminées Plumes / White Grasses
Vinciane Closset
Painting - 100 x 80 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 inch
€1,480
Luciano Pavarotti - Rigoletto
Artush Voskanyan
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€11,506
Heart white - Love, Amour, Amore, Liebe 3D plaster
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 120 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
€3,500
Unchartered Territory 1
Laura Spring
Painting - 40.6 x 55.9 x 0.3 cm Painting - 16 x 22 x 0.1 inch
€221
Unchartered Territory 9
Laura Spring
Painting - 55.9 x 40.6 x 0.3 cm Painting - 22 x 16 x 0.1 inch
€221
Unchartered Territory 8
Laura Spring
Painting - 55.9 x 40.6 x 0.3 cm Painting - 22 x 16 x 0.1 inch
€221
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!