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![Painting, La route -1, Ivan Tzonev](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2217272_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Migrant, série Récits cosmogoniques, Jean-Marc Hunt](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2217238_1_grid.jpg)
Migrant, série Récits cosmogoniques
Jean-Marc Hunt
Painting - 75 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 29.5 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
€4,500
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Marianne, série Récits cosmogoniques
Jean-Marc Hunt
Painting - 75 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 29.5 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
€4,500
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Remember To Forget, series Albahian
Joana Choumali
Photography - 80 x 80 x 0.1 cm Photography - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0 inch
€22,000
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Milk Box Pop Art Chanel
Olivier DeGroote
Sculpture - 26 x 8 x 8 cm Sculpture - 10.2 x 3.1 x 3.1 inch
€290
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Blooming Together
Katharina Husslein
Painting - 80 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
€1,700
![Painting, Paris dream, Mercedes Lagunas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2143249_1_grid.jpg)
Paris dream
Mercedes Lagunas
Painting - 130 x 130 x 1 cm Painting - 51.2 x 51.2 x 0.4 inch
€2,697 €2,158
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Genesis
Rod McIntosh
Fine Art Drawings - 60 x 60 x 6 cm Fine Art Drawings - 23.6 x 23.6 x 2.4 inch
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Une femme sur un toit brûlant
Sylvia Galmot
Photography - 60 x 80 cm Photography - 23.6 x 31.5 inch
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Take my breath away
Stefanie Heyer
Painting - 100 x 70 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 1.2 inch
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![Painting, I'm beautiful in Vuitton, Patrick Cornée](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/199114_1_grid.jpg)
I'm beautiful in Vuitton
Patrick Cornée
Painting - 50 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
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Hommage à Yves-saint-Laurent III
Agnès Tiollier
Fine Art Drawings - 70 x 100 x 0.18 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0.1 inch
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The Orchestra
Kazuhiko Tanaka
Sculpture - 29 x 18.5 x 18.5 cm Sculpture - 11.4 x 7.3 x 7.3 inch
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Take four
Anet Duncan
Fine Art Drawings - 24 x 23 x 5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.4 x 9.1 x 2 inch
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![Photography, Marylin Monroe (1949), André de Dienes](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/31309_1_grid.jpg)
Marylin Monroe (1949)
André de Dienes
Photography - 27 x 28 x 1 cm Photography - 10.6 x 11 x 0.4 inch
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Yappanoise #12
Harald Kröner
Fine Art Drawings - 72 x 178 x 2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 28.3 x 70.1 x 0.8 inch
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Yappanoise 18
Harald Kröner
Fine Art Drawings - 75 x 155 x 2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 29.5 x 61 x 0.8 inch
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Peint in caelo et in terra
Olivier Liégent
Photography - 51 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 20.1 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
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2017-03-P12 (GA20)
Guillaume Allemand
Sculpture - 21 x 21 x 3 cm Sculpture - 8.3 x 8.3 x 1.2 inch
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2017-03-P4 (GA19)
Guillaume Allemand
Sculpture - 35 x 35 x 3 cm Sculpture - 13.8 x 13.8 x 1.2 inch
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2017-03-P6 (GA17)
Guillaume Allemand
Sculpture - 21 x 21 x 3 cm Sculpture - 8.3 x 8.3 x 1.2 inch
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Composition à l'encre
André Marfaing
Fine Art Drawings - 64 x 50 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.2 x 19.7 inch
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Serie Vera y Victoria
Mar Sáez
Photography - 50 x 70 x 3 cm Photography - 19.7 x 27.6 x 1.2 inch
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La parisienne vaut bien une messe
Sylvia Galmot
Photography - 50 x 30 cm Photography - 19.7 x 11.8 inch
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Flowers From The Sky
Kazuhiko Tanaka
Sculpture - 41 x 14 x 7 cm Sculpture - 16.1 x 5.5 x 2.8 inch
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Sleeping Beauty
Paul Richard Mason
Painting - 115 x 95 x 4 cm Painting - 45.3 x 37.4 x 1.6 inch
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1 - Les âges de la vie - Jadis
Mita Vostok
Photography - 60 x 40 x 1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
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Glaces et feux 4164
Jean-Georges Inca
Painting - 80 x 60 x 5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 2 inch
Sold
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Une silhouette emballée (Madame Choui)
Jean-Robert Drouillard
Sculpture - 155 x 36 x 36 cm Sculpture - 61 x 14.2 x 14.2 inch
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Struggle For Afterlife
Pascal Bernier
Sculpture - 25 x 50 x 30 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 19.7 x 11.8 inch
Sold
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!