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Le tigre blanc - Exposition 2023
Lionel le Jeune
Photography - 61 x 80 x 0.5 cm Photography - 24 x 31.5 x 0.2 inch
$792
Le Camargue - Exposition
Lionel le Jeune
Photography - 77 x 60 x 0.5 cm Photography - 30.3 x 23.6 x 0.2 inch
$792
Bunnies and guns #6 (Bunnies, Bubbles and Guns)
Amy Nelder
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 3.8 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 1.5 inch
$6,000
Trouville, le balcon - ref BDNW11481
Janie Michels
Painting - 100 x 73 x 1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 28.7 x 0.4 inch
$4,470
Benoît le chanceux
Guillaume Piot
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 65 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 25.6 inch
$1,697
Bonjour Tristesse
Guillaume Piot
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 inch
$1,697
En campagne
Guillaume Piot
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 65 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 25.6 inch
$1,697
Aux Innocents les mains pleines.
Guillaume Piot
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 65 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 25.6 inch
$1,697
GB Constructure 19’99
Gaël Bourmaud
Painting - 77 x 77 x 2 cm Painting - 30.3 x 30.3 x 0.8 inch
$4,527
Sibouten
Dimitris Pavlopoulos
Painting - 100 x 100 x 1.8 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.7 inch
$2,263
Le box à kava
Foucaud Stéphane
Painting - 106 x 105.5 x 4 cm Painting - 41.7 x 41.5 x 1.6 inch
$2,357
Tipis (Piezography)
Lionel le Jeune
Photography - 60 x 85 x 0.5 cm Photography - 23.6 x 33.5 x 0.2 inch
$1,132
Reservoir (Piezography)
Lionel le Jeune
Photography - 50 x 70 x 0.5 cm Photography - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.2 inch
$622
La sieste interrompue
Lionel le Jeune
Painting - 65 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
$622
Los Albaricoques
Lionel le Jeune
Photography - 50 x 75 x 0.5 cm Photography - 19.7 x 29.5 x 0.2 inch
$849
Dream of the Thousand and One Nights Lights 2 - Rêve de Lumières des Mille et Une Nuits 2
Cecile Gonne Victoria
Painting - 30 x 30 x 4 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 1.6 inch
$328
Ligne de cheveux series 008
Teruma
Painting - 65.2 x 53 x 3 cm Painting - 25.7 x 20.9 x 1.2 inch
$4,300
Ligne de cheveux series 007
Teruma
Painting - 65.2 x 53 x 3 cm Painting - 25.7 x 20.9 x 1.2 inch
$4,300
Ligne de cheveux series 002
Teruma
Painting - 65.2 x 53 x 3 cm Painting - 25.7 x 20.9 x 1.2 inch
$4,300
Ligne de cheveux series 005
Teruma
Painting - 65.2 x 53 x 3 cm Painting - 25.7 x 20.9 x 1.2 inch
$4,300
Ligne de cheveux series 004
Teruma
Painting - 65.2 x 53 x 3 cm Painting - 25.7 x 20.9 x 1.2 inch
$4,300
Amour, gloire & ecstasy. Edition signed. 5
JP Malot
Print - 59 x 42 x 1 cm Print - 23.2 x 16.5 x 0.4 inch
$123
Portrait de Surma N°2
Catherine Clare
Painting - 46 x 38 x 2 cm Painting - 18.1 x 15 x 0.8 inch
$1,358
Paris Montparnasse
Eliane Diverly
Painting - 23.4 x 18.5 x 0.2 cm Painting - 9.2 x 7.3 x 0.1 inch
$226
Blue woman mountain top
Yahaira Cohinta Vannucchi
Painting - 60 x 91 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 35.8 x 1.2 inch
$17,880
Iniciación
Jordi Valls Capell
Photography - 100 x 150 x 1 cm Photography - 39.4 x 59.1 x 0.4 inch
$8,844
Identical constellation
Roy Thomas
Painting - 91.44 x 91.44 x 4 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1.6 inch
$6,827
Alexander McQueen
Jean-Michel Lourenço
Painting - 100 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
$1,358
San Xulian de Faro
Paco Ascón Callejo
Painting - 40 x 40 x 5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 2 inch
$514
Movement of the moon
Nataliia Salamatova
Painting - 40 x 30 x 3 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 1.2 inch
$7,356
Sur la colline veille
Cekyka Art
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 29.7 x 0.02 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 11.7 x 0 inch
$565
New world
Cekyka Art
Fine Art Drawings - 29.7 x 21 x 0.02 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.7 x 8.3 x 0 inch
$338
Marionnettiste
Cekyka Art
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 29.7 x 0.02 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 11.7 x 0 inch
$338
Espace temps
Cekyka Art
Fine Art Drawings - 29.7 x 21 x 0.02 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.7 x 8.3 x 0 inch
$338
La femme à la cithare - Night blue
Aurélie Trabaud
Print - 40 x 30 x 0.1 cm Print - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$260 $234
Les voiliers de Saint-Tropez…
Olivier Messas
Painting - 140 x 140 x 2 cm Painting - 55.1 x 55.1 x 0.8 inch
$15,843
Les voiliers de Croatie... (Esprit voile 2021)
Olivier Messas
Painting - 150 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$6,224
Etude pour Asphodèles n°1
Gaël Darras
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 40 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 15.7 inch
$407
Etude pour Asphodèles n°5
Gaël Darras
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 40 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 15.7 inch
$407
Etude pour Asphodèles n°3
Gaël Darras
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 40 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 15.7 inch
$407
La Montagne Imaginaire
Jérome Obiols
Photography - 70 x 186 x 0.1 cm Photography - 27.6 x 73.2 x 0 inch
$3,961
Draperie Ephémère sur la Meije
Jérome Obiols
Photography - 100 x 140 x 0.1 cm Photography - 39.4 x 55.1 x 0 inch
$4,187
La Guerre des Mondes
Jérome Obiols
Photography - 80 x 114 x 0.1 cm Photography - 31.5 x 44.9 x 0 inch
$3,451
Arbre
Lionel le Jeune
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 29.7 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 11.7 x 0.1 inch
$57
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!