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Els arbres ploren III
Tatiana Blanqué
Painting - 20 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 7.9 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
€450
A travers l'hiver
Pauline Guillemard
Painting - 100 x 80 x 1.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.6 inch
€750
Traces - Maastricht
Jenny Owens
Photography - 18 x 24 x 0.5 cm Photography - 7.1 x 9.4 x 0.2 inch
€420
I like knowing that change is possible
Bevan Ramsay
Sculpture - 75 x 36 x 24 cm Sculpture - 29.5 x 14.2 x 9.4 inch
€6,373
I've been here for about three months
Bevan Ramsay
Sculpture - 59 x 33 x 27 cm Sculpture - 23.2 x 13 x 10.6 inch
€6,373
The bottom is a really interesting place
Bevan Ramsay
Sculpture - 80 x 42 x 30 cm Sculpture - 31.5 x 16.5 x 11.8 inch
€6,373
My father came over from England
Bevan Ramsay
Sculpture - 80 x 42 x 30 cm Sculpture - 31.5 x 16.5 x 11.8 inch
€6,373
You could tell he had the red spirit in him
Bevan Ramsay
Sculpture - 68 x 34 x 28 cm Sculpture - 26.8 x 13.4 x 11 inch
€6,373
Le voyage de Miss D
Anne-Marie Vesco
Painting - 8.04 x 8.04 x 0.07 cm Painting - 3.2 x 3.2 x 0 inch
€400
Set of 8 AD 026
Alain Delon
Design - 70 x 74 x 110 cm Design - 27.6 x 29.1 x 43.3 inch
€2,200 €1,650
Stockage, Waregem
Jérémie Lenoir
Photography - 120 x 120 x 1 cm Photography - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0.4 inch
€4,800
Sans Titre 10 - Ref BDNW9152
Jean-Pierre Stora
Fine Art Drawings - 11 x 25 cm Fine Art Drawings - 4.3 x 9.8 inch
€250
Sans Titre 14 - Ref BDNW9156
Jean-Pierre Stora
Fine Art Drawings - 17 x 14 cm Fine Art Drawings - 6.7 x 5.5 inch
€190
Sans Titre 3 - Ref BDNW9145
Jean-Pierre Stora
Fine Art Drawings - 7 x 10 cm Fine Art Drawings - 2.8 x 3.9 inch
€190
Sans Titre 13 - Ref BDNW9155
Jean-Pierre Stora
Fine Art Drawings - 10 x 25 cm Fine Art Drawings - 3.9 x 9.8 inch
€250
Sans Titre 2 - Ref BDNW9144
Jean-Pierre Stora
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 17 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 6.7 inch
€190
Marilyn Chanel N5
Gardani Art
Painting - 101.6 x 101.6 x 3.8 cm Painting - 40 x 40 x 1.5 inch
€4,828
Eggs and Oranges With Vase
Zhang Wei Guang
Painting - 50 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€10,800
Oranges in a Bowl
Zhang Wei Guang
Painting - 27.5 x 37.5 x 1 cm Painting - 10.8 x 14.8 x 0.4 inch
€7,600 €6,080
Eggs and Newspaper
Zhang Wei Guang
Painting - 35 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 13.8 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
€7,200
Spatial Anomaly
Colleen Wolstenholme
Sculpture - 89 x 89 x 26 cm Sculpture - 35 x 35 x 10.2 inch
€7,250
Don't want to hear it
Kazuhiko Tanaka
Sculpture - 12 x 8 x 4.5 cm Sculpture - 4.7 x 3.1 x 1.8 inch
€285
Grossert Michael - 1970 Musée des Sables Barcarés
John Craven né Conte
Photography - 30 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0 inch
€2,900
Camargo - Musée des Sables Barcarès
John Craven né Conte
Photography - 40 x 36 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 14.2 x 0 inch
€2,900
Going for a walk
Eduardo Vega de Seoane
Painting - 160 x 180 x 3 cm Painting - 63 x 70.9 x 1.2 inch
€10,080
En el jardín
Eduardo Vega de Seoane
Painting - 130 x 97 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 38.2 x 1.2 inch
€5,740
May the force be with you!
Amandine André
Photography - 11.5 x 16.5 x 1 cm Photography - 4.5 x 6.5 x 0.4 inch
€75
Marbles 20
Carlos Bruscianelli
Painting - 121.9 x 172.7 x 3.8 cm Painting - 48 x 68 x 1.5 inch
€35,729
Carcasse # 24
Pascal Marlin
Fine Art Drawings - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
€750
Voiture chauffe eau
Yannis Lagresle
Sculpture - 21 x 52 x 26 cm Sculpture - 8.3 x 20.5 x 10.2 inch
€3,400
Melodie Monocromatiche - Vintage White
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 22.9 x 22.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 9 x 9 x 1 inch
€338
Melodie Monocromatiche - Bianco puro
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 22.9 x 22.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 9 x 9 x 1 inch
€338
Valsesia (black and red)
Mario Domenicale
Painting - 28 x 42 x 0.2 cm Painting - 11 x 16.5 x 0.1 inch
€180
Pas ce que vous pensiez : noir
Eugenia Jaeger
Print - 20.3 x 30.5 x 0.1 cm Print - 8 x 12 x 0 inch
€180
Homme à la main levée
Pascal Marlin
Painting - 65 x 55 x 3 cm Painting - 25.6 x 21.7 x 1.2 inch
€750
Space: is NOT the final frontier
Rene Gagnon
Print - 55.88 x 76.2 x 0.2 cm Print - 22 x 30 x 0.1 inch
€380
Ode - Round Painting
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 30.5 x 30.5 x 2.5 cm Painting - 12 x 12 x 1 inch
€290
Fragment cathédrale
Florence Jarrige
Sculpture - 20 x 30 x 15 cm Sculpture - 7.9 x 11.8 x 5.9 inch
€3,500
Dancing Woman 2018 I
Yiyan Zhou
Sculpture - 17.5 x 23.5 x 7 cm Sculpture - 6.9 x 9.3 x 2.8 inch
€5,200
Phénomènes, Untitled (Volcano eruption #7)
Marina Gadonneix
Photography - 29 x 22.4 x 0.2 cm Photography - 11.4 x 8.8 x 0.1 inch
€140
Wonderland, Which Way? Which Way?
Sophie Valette
Photography - 40 x 40 x 1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
€480
Voiturette vintage blanche
Art Pej
Sculpture - 40 x 77 x 41 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 30.3 x 16.1 inch
€580
Stronger Together
Bronle Crosby
Painting - 182.9 x 243.8 x 6.4 cm Painting - 72 x 96 x 2.5 inch
€11,346
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!