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![Fine Art Drawings, lmo, Emilie Chauvel](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2176487_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Sans titre 7, Rong Su](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2165479_1_grid.jpg)
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Abstract composition in white
Tonino Maurizi
Sculpture - 28 x 16 x 2 cm Sculpture - 11 x 6.3 x 0.8 inch
$1,454
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Sombre histoire - série Abstraction
Hervé Bauve
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,264
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Possible victoire - série Abstraction
Hervé Bauve
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,264
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Henry V, from Much Ado about Shakespeare
Salvador Dali
Print - 17.1 x 12.7 cm Print - 6.75 x 5 inch
$3,000
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Poolside Ladies
Slim Aarons
Photography - 76 x 101 x 0.01 cm Photography - 29.9 x 39.8 x 0 inch
$3,467
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Mystic River
Mariusz Makula
Painting - 119.9 x 100.1 x 4.1 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$1,000
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Ride Around Shining
Mariusz Makula
Painting - 70.1 x 119.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 47.2 x 1 inch
$1,000
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Portrait de Leopold Zborowski (d'après)
Amedeo Modigliani
Print - 46 x 30 x 0.2 cm Print - 18.1 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$1,342
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Abstract no. 6421 XXL
Anita Kaufmann
Painting - 78.7 x 198.1 x 2 cm Painting - 31 x 78 x 0.8 inch
$1,523
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Riva degli Schiavoni, Venise
Charles Malle
Painting - 48 x 62 x 0.1 cm Painting - 18.9 x 24.4 x 0 inch
$1,398
![Photography, Centauros III, Amrita Bilimoria](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2202457_1_grid.jpg)
Centauros III
Amrita Bilimoria
Photography - 101.6 x 152.4 x 0.5 cm Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.2 inch
$5,500
![Painting, Sin título, Miquel Ponce](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2178228_1_grid.jpg)
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Playful - Disjointed reality #11
Kris Haas
Painting - 76.2 x 55.88 x 0.25 cm Painting - 30 x 22 x 0.1 inch
$1,957
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Lil’ crazy Boombox
Anthony Grip
Sculpture - 25 x 51 x 20 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 20.1 x 7.9 inch
$1,007
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![Painting, Graff & Griff, Christine Dumas de Rauly](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1578897_1_grid.jpg)
Graff & Griff
Christine Dumas de Rauly
Painting - 60 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
$1,118
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Les métamorphoses IX
Cécile Duchêne-Malissin
Painting - 92 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 36.2 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
$2,013
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![Fine Art Drawings, Étude de la sculpture "Nzuri", Aude Herlédan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2175615_1_grid.jpg)
Étude de la sculpture "Nzuri"
Aude Herlédan
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 40 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
$6,711
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Colourful Brain by David
Dervis Akdemir
Sculpture - 75 x 30 x 25 cm Sculpture - 29.5 x 11.8 x 9.8 inch
$993
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Peony flower - Ranunculus
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,237
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![Painting, Concept spiral, Piero Cipolat](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2140556_1_grid.jpg)
Concept spiral
Piero Cipolat
Painting - 58 x 58 x 4 cm Painting - 22.8 x 22.8 x 1.6 inch
$1,029 $926
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To another land IV
Aude Herlédan
Painting - 114 x 87 x 2 cm Painting - 44.9 x 34.3 x 0.8 inch
$20,132
![Painting, Fragile framework II, Ansgar Dressler](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2033400_1_grid.jpg)
Fragile framework II
Ansgar Dressler
Painting - 101.6 x 101.6 x 3 cm Painting - 40 x 40 x 1.2 inch
$1,550
![Painting, Voyage au bout de la nuit (1), Mathilde de Bellecombe](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1966461_1_grid.jpg)
Voyage au bout de la nuit (1)
Mathilde de Bellecombe
Painting - 70 x 59 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 23.2 x 0.8 inch
$1,314
![Painting, White abstract painting GW145, Radek Smach](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1865481_1_grid.jpg)
White abstract painting GW145
Radek Smach
Painting - 100.1 x 100.1 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,670
![Painting, Brown abstract painting DK663, Radek Smach](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1865472_1_grid.jpg)
Brown abstract painting DK663
Radek Smach
Painting - 70.1 x 89.9 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,450
![Painting, Emerald abstract painting SA765, Radek Smach](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1865463_1_grid.jpg)
Emerald abstract painting SA765
Radek Smach
Painting - 100.1 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,570
![Painting, Abstract painting IT874, Radek Smach](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1865436_1_grid.jpg)
Abstract painting IT874
Radek Smach
Painting - 100.1 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,720
![Fine Art Drawings, Time 2, Krasimira Stikar](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1833501_1_grid.jpg)
Time 2
Krasimira Stikar
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 29.5 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 11.6 x 0.1 inch
$805
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Dreamscape Gold & White - Two tone paintings
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 152.4 x 121.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 60 x 48 x 1 inch
$5,800
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Gentlemen prefer blondes
Patricia Gadisseur
Painting - 100 x 120 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 1 inch
$1,230
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Dune de sel
Lionel le Jeune
Photography - 70 x 105 x 0.5 cm Photography - 27.6 x 41.3 x 0.2 inch
$951
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Série : Se faire passer pour Mao
Nathalie Daoust
Photography - 60 x 90 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 inch
$2,796
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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!