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![Painting, Abstract 2411, Alex Senchenko](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2181501_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Femme assise, Philippe Pasqua](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2203718_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Match Silhouette (S), Tyler Shields](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2200162_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, N°608, Pierre-Luc Poujol](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2191280_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, We are all martyrs (3) (after pina bausch) forbidden collage (12), Julien Delagrange](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2187528_1_grid.jpg)
We are all martyrs (3) (after pina bausch) forbidden collage (12)
Julien Delagrange
Painting - 150 x 135 x 0.1 cm Painting - 59.1 x 53.1 x 0 inch
$6,996
![Design, Breeze - Arm Chair, Poonam Choudhary](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2178456_1_grid.jpg)
Breeze - Arm Chair
Poonam Choudhary
Design - 73.7 x 65 x 82 cm Design - 29 x 25.6 x 32.3 inch
$1,500
![Painting, Hiding Places - series Bunnies, Les Panchyshyn](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2206152_1_grid.jpg)
Hiding Places - series Bunnies
Les Panchyshyn
Painting - 70 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,466
![Painting, Special one - series Bunnies, Les Panchyshyn](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2206146_1_grid.jpg)
Special one - series Bunnies
Les Panchyshyn
Painting - 70 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,466
![Sculpture, Croco white marble bag, Phantom Art](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2205206_1_grid.jpg)
Croco white marble bag
Phantom Art
Sculpture - 40 x 34 x 18 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 13.4 x 7.1 inch
$8,408
![Painting, Vivent les animaux X Brigitte Bardot, Jérôme Mesnager](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2203849_1_grid.jpg)
Vivent les animaux X Brigitte Bardot
Jérôme Mesnager
Painting - 50 x 30 x 0.2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$3,924
![Painting, Emerald Coast, Gagik Ghazanchyan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2202012_1_grid.jpg)
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![Painting, Moon night cloud, Alvaro Petritoli](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2196727_1_grid.jpg)
Moon night cloud
Alvaro Petritoli
Painting - 31 x 39 x 3 cm Painting - 12.2 x 15.4 x 1.2 inch
$1,244
![Painting, 4 moons, Alvaro Petritoli](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2196219_1_grid.jpg)
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![Sculpture, Moonwalk on wheels 2, Guillaume Nicolaou](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2191904_1_grid.jpg)
Moonwalk on wheels 2
Guillaume Nicolaou
Sculpture - 150 x 70 x 12 cm Sculpture - 59.1 x 27.6 x 4.7 inch
$3,588
![Painting, La cage où le silence fût brisé par la voix d'un homme au bord des larmes, Sandra Chevrier](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2188311_1_grid.jpg)
La cage où le silence fût brisé par la voix d'un homme au bord des larmes
Sandra Chevrier
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$11,772
![Painting, Worksite, Ludovic Mercher](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2156741_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, A dream of imperfections / Totem 2, White, Guillaume Nicolaou](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2137979_1_grid.jpg)
A dream of imperfections / Totem 2, White
Guillaume Nicolaou
Painting - 160 x 110 x 5 cm Painting - 63 x 43.3 x 2 inch
$2,354
![Painting, CET-23, Martin Singer](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2213082_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, BF-16, Martin Singer](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2211461_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Implacable, Yaz Tazi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2210865_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Skate Board 3, George Heidweiller](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2206722_1_grid.jpg)
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![Print, Mod 24, Lidia Masllorens](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2196066_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Series “Between Heaven and Earth” - turquoise blue, Nataliia Krykun](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2192462_1_grid.jpg)
Series “Between Heaven and Earth” - turquoise blue
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 150 x 200 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 78.7 x 1.6 inch
$11,211
![Painting, 17, Victoria Shani](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2189202_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Reine callipyge, Paskal Hotman](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2183327_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Méthamorphose, Paskal Hotman](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2183325_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Orientation, Christophe Hohler](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/941760_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Earth and Water series, Jenny Owens](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2209746_1_grid.jpg)
![Design, Glitch #05. From the series Glitch, Yongwon Noh](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2200467_1_grid.jpg)
Glitch #05. From the series Glitch
Yongwon Noh
Design - 10.9 x 13 x 13 cm Design - 4.3 x 5.1 x 5.1 inch
$1,000
![Design, Glitch #04. From the series Glitch, Yongwon Noh](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2199703_1_grid.jpg)
Glitch #04. From the series Glitch
Yongwon Noh
Design - 17 x 6.9 x 6.9 cm Design - 6.7 x 2.7 x 2.7 inch
$1,300
![Painting, Audi type A, Angélique Dufossé](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2199222_1_grid.jpg)
![Design, Glitch #03. From the series Glitch, Yongwon Noh](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2198929_1_grid.jpg)
Glitch #03. From the series Glitch
Yongwon Noh
Design - 15.7 x 6.9 x 6.9 cm Design - 6.2 x 2.7 x 2.7 inch
$1,300
![Painting, Au loin, Richard Poumelin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2195376_1_grid.jpg)
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![Print, Coeur blanc double cage or02, Nhico](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2187465_1_grid.jpg)
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![Painting, Steady as she goes, Newel Hunter](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2186204_1_grid.jpg)
Steady as she goes
Newel Hunter
Painting - 111.8 x 88.9 x 0.5 cm Painting - 44 x 35 x 0.2 inch
$5,950
![Painting, Perfect Timing, Newel Hunter](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2186186_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Just In Time, Newel Hunter](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2186173_1_grid.jpg)
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![Painting, Infinite Flow, Newel Hunter](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2186163_1_grid.jpg)
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![Painting, Seduction, Newel Hunter](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2186159_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Beta Collage 71, Michael Filonow](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2184966_1_grid.jpg)
Beta Collage 71
Michael Filonow
Photography - 50.8 x 101.6 x 0.3 cm Photography - 20 x 40 x 0.1 inch
$760
![Painting, The Field of Eisenstein III, Ihar Barkhatkou](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2181230_1_grid.jpg)
The Field of Eisenstein III
Ihar Barkhatkou
Painting - 150 x 200 x 3 cm Painting - 59.1 x 78.7 x 1.2 inch
$6,727
![Painting, Beer & Cigar what else ?, Eddy Vitalone](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2209175_1_grid.jpg)
Beer & Cigar what else ?
Eddy Vitalone
Painting - 117 x 98 x 5 cm Painting - 46.1 x 38.6 x 2 inch
$5,045
![Painting, TBCC-24, Martin Singer](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2208702_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, 2R1T-19, Martin Singer](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2208080_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Fille Fume, Emil Farber](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2206232_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Atmosphère 1/2/3, Hervé Souffi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2205913_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Columns of The Propylaea. From the Grand Interiors series, Celia Rogge](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2205701_1_grid.jpg)
Columns of The Propylaea. From the Grand Interiors series
Celia Rogge
Photography - 121.9 x 182.9 x 0.3 cm Photography - 48 x 72 x 0.1 inch
$9,875
![Photography, Le Sanctuaire D'Anna Amalia. From the Grand Interiors series, Celia Rogge](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2204732_1_grid.jpg)
Le Sanctuaire D'Anna Amalia. From the Grand Interiors series
Celia Rogge
Photography - 121.9 x 182.9 x 0.3 cm Photography - 48 x 72 x 0.1 inch
$9,875
![Photography, Chinoiserie. From the Grand Interiors series, Celia Rogge](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2204731_1_grid.jpg)
Chinoiserie. From the Grand Interiors series
Celia Rogge
Photography - 101.6 x 152.4 x 0.3 cm Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.1 inch
$8,250
![Painting, Saluti, Virginia Benedicto](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2196094_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Expansion no. 25, César Baldaccini](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2191113_1_grid.jpg)
Expansion no. 25
César Baldaccini
Sculpture - 187.5 x 110 x 20 cm Sculpture - 73.8 x 43.3 x 7.9 inch
$50,450
![Sculpture, Ballerina, Valay Shende](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2205698_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Obey Visage Femme, Lasveguix](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2204591_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Grand éclat noir et blanc, Jonathan Pradillon](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2204589_1_grid.jpg)
Grand éclat noir et blanc
Jonathan Pradillon
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.4 inch
$392
![Sculpture, CCTV, Tarek](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2197161_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Mask, Tarek](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2197157_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Vitriol, Tarek](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2197149_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Camo 45 II, Thandiwe Muriu](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2193605_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Coco, Foucaud Stéphane](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2189355_1_grid.jpg)
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![Fine Art Drawings, Le Cordier, Paul de Chatelperron](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2188237_1_grid.jpg)
Le Cordier
Paul de Chatelperron
Fine Art Drawings - 60 x 114 x 2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 23.6 x 44.9 x 0.8 inch
$2,120
![Fine Art Drawings, Untitled 66, Lucio Forte](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2187784_1_grid.jpg)
Untitled 66
Lucio Forte
Fine Art Drawings - 24 x 33 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.4 x 13 x 0 inch
$112
![Painting, Metaphysical weight (2) (after pina bausch) forbidden collage (8), Julien Delagrange](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2187529_1_grid.jpg)
Metaphysical weight (2) (after pina bausch) forbidden collage (8)
Julien Delagrange
Painting - 180 x 120 x 0.1 cm Painting - 70.9 x 47.2 x 0 inch
$7,399
![Painting, Le vol de la paix (a tribute to Picasso), Dr. Love](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2186419_1_grid.jpg)
Le vol de la paix (a tribute to Picasso)
Dr. Love
Painting - 30 x 40 x 0.2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
$56
![Print, L 1977-3, Hans Hartung](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/389612_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Jardín de las flores, Laura Rubio](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2212476_1_grid.jpg)
Jardín de las flores
Laura Rubio
Painting - 100 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$7,623
![Painting, Cabinet des Chats, Corine Perier](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2210886_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Borodyanka, Tetiana Ocheredko](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2208776_1_grid.jpg)
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![Painting, I'll Be Back Soon, Claudia Chang](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2207494_1_grid.jpg)
I'll Be Back Soon
Claudia Chang
Painting - 72.5 x 60.5 x 3 cm Painting - 28.5 x 23.8 x 1.2 inch
$3,363
![Painting, Rondeurs, Isabelle Hamard](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2204313_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Call me Bruce (Like This), Mary Lottridge](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2196500_1_grid.jpg)
Call me Bruce (Like This)
Mary Lottridge
Painting - 91 x 91 x 4 cm Painting - 35.8 x 35.8 x 1.6 inch
$1,721
![Painting, Black & white tetris, Hayvon](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2193730_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Portrait de Claudette, Charlotte Abramow](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1048806_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Vertical view over the sea - Positano painting Italy, Gianni Di Guida](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2209346_1_grid.jpg)
Vertical view over the sea - Positano painting Italy
Gianni Di Guida
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$533
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Dynamique de l'équilibre
Florence Boré
Painting - 107 x 74 x 0.5 cm Painting - 42.1 x 29.1 x 0.2 inch
$4,036
![Photography, Will Ferrell (II) - Los Angeles, CA 2007, Michael Grecco](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2202633_1_grid.jpg)
Will Ferrell (II) - Los Angeles, CA 2007
Michael Grecco
Photography - 50.8 x 40.6 x 5.1 cm Photography - 20 x 16 x 2 inch
$3,000
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!