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Behind the mask
Grégoire Devin
Painting - 213.4 x 213.4 x 5.1 cm Painting - 84 x 84 x 2 inch
€19,791
Mémoire de JingDeZhen
Feng Hatat
Photography - 32 x 48 x 1 cm Photography - 12.6 x 18.9 x 0.4 inch
€500
The devil is here #1
Alessandra Bisi
Painting - 24 x 35 x 0.1 cm Painting - 9.4 x 13.8 x 0 inch
€190
Cascade of White
Drew Doggett
Photography - 81.3 x 121.9 x 0.3 cm Photography - 32 x 48 x 0.1 inch
€3,638
Uncharted
Drew Doggett
Photography - 60.3 x 121.9 x 0.3 cm Photography - 23.75 x 48 x 0.1 inch
€3,638
Untitled 4
David Paul Kay
Fine Art Drawings - 16 x 16 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 6.3 x 6.3 x 0 inch
€600
Untitled 3
David Paul Kay
Fine Art Drawings - 16 x 16 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 6.3 x 6.3 x 0 inch
€600
Untitled 2
David Paul Kay
Fine Art Drawings - 16 x 16 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 6.3 x 6.3 x 0 inch
€600
Sans titre
JonOne
Fine Art Drawings - 32 x 41 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12.6 x 16.1 x 0 inch
€2,000
Arty "Balance" Table Lamp Sphere
Irena Tone
Design - 51 x 19 x 15 cm Design - 20.1 x 7.5 x 5.9 inch
€2,700
Ocean Escape
Drew Doggett
Photography - 68.6 x 68.6 x 0.3 cm Photography - 27 x 27 x 0.1 inch
€2,280
Poèmes insoumis
André Masson
Fine Art Drawings - 27.5 x 20.5 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10.8 x 8.1 x 0.1 inch
€1,500
Elegant minimalism
Anastasia Vasilyeva
Painting - 30 x 30 x 1.8 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.7 inch
€800
Saigon blur LXX
Sven Pfrommer
Photography - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
€1,890
Éphémère Sensualité #1
Tanguy Mendrisse
Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0 inch
€190
Le Baiser
Thalia Dalecky
Sculpture - 41 x 39 x 39 cm Sculpture - 16.1 x 15.4 x 15.4 inch
€1,600 €1,440
L'homme bleu à la cigarette 3
Lila Maroun Frem
Painting - 25 x 25 x 1.5 cm Painting - 9.8 x 9.8 x 0.6 inch
€1,400
Every day´s magic
Viktoria Ganhao
Painting - 100 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,500
Fruit d'Anémone du Japon
Thierry Robert
Photography - 30 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0 inch
€360
You are what you have
Poonam Choudhary
Painting - 121.9 x 182.9 x 5.1 cm Painting - 48 x 72 x 2 inch
€1,455
Palm Springs party
Slim Aarons
Photography - 30 x 41 x 0.01 cm Photography - 11.8 x 16.1 x 0 inch
€1,650
Poolside social
Slim Aarons
Photography - 41 x 51 x 0.01 cm Photography - 16.1 x 20.1 x 0 inch
€1,950
Nelda and friends
Slim Aarons
Photography - 51 x 41 x 0.01 cm Photography - 20.1 x 16.1 x 0 inch
€1,950
Poolside gathering
Slim Aarons
Photography - 41 x 51 x 0.01 cm Photography - 16.1 x 20.1 x 0 inch
€1,950
Helen & Nelda by the Pool
Slim Aarons
Photography - 41 x 31 x 0.01 cm Photography - 16.1 x 12.2 x 0 inch
€1,650
Poolside socialites
Slim Aarons
Photography - 30 x 41 x 0.01 cm Photography - 11.8 x 16.1 x 0 inch
€1,650
Gontran (hommage à Modrian)
Flo Hombecq
Sculpture - 36 x 15 x 15 cm Sculpture - 14.2 x 5.9 x 5.9 inch
€950
White Top 41, Black Bottom 21
Anna Celie Nastasia Meyer
Sculpture - 67 x 61 x 15 cm Sculpture - 26.4 x 24 x 5.9 inch
€5,530
Way of the Waterfall
Corinne Lisa Costello
Painting - 121 x 97 x 3 cm Painting - 47.6 x 38.2 x 1.2 inch
€5,914
Abstract Expression
Giorgio Lo Fermo
Painting - 91 x 82 x 1 cm Painting - 35.8 x 32.3 x 0.4 inch
€1,600
The Times of Love
Yasna Godovanik
Painting - 100 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,250 €725
Arty white candleholder "Textures pearls" for 2 candles
Irena Tone
Design - 16.5 x 19.3 x 15 cm Design - 6.5 x 7.6 x 5.9 inch
€950
Le phare et les mystères
Carole Framezelle - Acmiya
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€4,400
Ochestrale mecanique
Muriel Charbonnier
Painting - 60 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
€1,175
White butterfly, bronze stripe
Svetlana Martin
Painting - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
€750
Les Mamelles de Tirésias
Erte Tirtoff
Fine Art Drawings - 37 x 28 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 14.6 x 11 x 0 inch
€3,600
Ombre et lumière #5
Feng Hatat
Photography - 48 x 32 x 1 cm Photography - 18.9 x 12.6 x 0.4 inch
€600
White Iceberg - 3D, textured, plaster
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
€2,000
White Iceberg - 3D, textured, plaster
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 80 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
€1,800
Le cailloux dans la chaussure
Antoine Josse
Painting - 30 x 30 x 3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 1.2 inch
€590
3 D White abstraction circles
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 80 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
€1,800
Snoopy walking with Euro Bags gold series
Carlos Pun Art
Painting - 70 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
€1,339
Ethereal Encounters: Abstract Meditations on Mies' Pavilion in Barcelona
Daniel Holfeld
Photography - 20 x 30 cm Photography - 7.9 x 11.8 inch
€600
Architectural Alchemy: Abstract Transformations in Mies' Pavilion
Daniel Holfeld
Photography - 30 x 20 cm Photography - 11.8 x 7.9 inch
€600
Capturing Essence: Abstract Impressions of Mies van der Rohe Pavilion
Daniel Holfeld
Photography - 20 x 30 cm Photography - 7.9 x 11.8 inch
€600
Temporal Fragments: Abstract Moments in Mies' Barcelona Pavilion
Daniel Holfeld
Photography - 20 x 30 cm Photography - 7.9 x 11.8 inch
€600
Minimalism Unveiled: Abstract Captures of Mies' Barcelona Pavilion
Daniel Holfeld
Photography - 30 x 20 cm Photography - 11.8 x 7.9 inch
€600
Still Life in White
Yuriy Demiyanov
Painting - 60 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
€3,800
OMO: Untitled 15
Drew Doggett
Photography - 45.7 x 68.6 x 0.3 cm Photography - 18 x 27 x 0.1 inch
€1,601
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!