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Sous le vent - Paysage marin et voiliers
Anne-Marie Bernardi
Painting - 50 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
€375
Grand largue - Paysage marin et voiliers
Anne-Marie Bernardi
Painting - 30 x 30 x 3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 1.2 inch
€190
Karl Largerfield soirée Kenzo
Arnaud Baumann
Photography - 16 x 24 x 0.1 cm Photography - 6.3 x 9.4 x 0 inch
€300
Demeter #6
Rani Bruchstein
Photography - 150 x 100 x 2 cm Photography - 59.1 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€8,060
In side out #3
Rani Bruchstein
Photography - 150 x 100 x 2 cm Photography - 59.1 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€8,060
Equivoque - série Portraits hybrides
Claude Verger dite Claud
Painting - 40 x 40 x 0.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.2 inch
€450
New York 50
Jean-François Mollière
Photography - 70 x 150 x 1 cm Photography - 27.6 x 59.1 x 0.4 inch
€3,220
Want my apple too?!?
Claudia Benavente
Painting - 120 x 80 x 25 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 9.8 inch
€8,060
Fantasia. Tunisie
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 60 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
€1,200
Mar tormentoso
Francisca Morales Alliende
Painting - 34 x 49 x 1 cm Painting - 13.4 x 19.3 x 0.4 inch
€3,411
Etendage marocain.
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 60 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
€1,100
Lagune de Venise
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 90 x 60 x 2 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,100
Forêt rhénane
André Guillarmain
Painting - 130 x 195 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 76.8 x 0.8 inch
€3,500
Ayrton Senna Mac Leren Silverstone 92
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 60 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
€1,400
Ayrton Senna. Prince de Monaco.
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 60 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
€1,500
Déchet sublime 1
Jean-Robert Franco
Photography - 80 x 60 x 1 cm Photography - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
€1,200
Composition verticales
Lionel le Jeune
Photography - 45 x 60 x 0.4 cm Photography - 17.7 x 23.6 x 0.2 inch
€850
Tigre de Bengale
Ahmed Shahabuddin
Painting - 65 x 54 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 21.3 x 0.8 inch
€5,700
Fashion is image
Akif Hakan
Photography - 150 x 100 x 3 cm Photography - 59.1 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
€8,000
Nostalgie - Portrait de femme
Glad_is_murmuring
Painting - 20 x 20 x 1 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.4 inch
€140
Médite - Portrait de femme
Glad_is_murmuring
Painting - 20 x 20 x 1 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.4 inch
€140
Jacques Villeret
Arnaud Baumann
Photography - 20 x 20 x 0.1 cm Photography - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0 inch
€250
YO! Queen Elizabeth.
JP Malot
Fine Art Drawings - 8.5 x 16.5 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 3.3 x 6.5 x 0.4 inch
€160
Memory insect 2
Shilpa Joglekar
Photography - 59 x 41 x 0.3 cm Photography - 23.2 x 16.1 x 0.1 inch
€450
Nothing is under control
Esteban Vera
Painting - 110 x 89.9 x 5.1 cm Painting - 43.3 x 35.4 x 2 inch
€3,281
The bright side of life
Esteban Vera
Painting - 110 x 89.9 x 5.1 cm Painting - 43.3 x 35.4 x 2 inch
€3,377
Three vases and a lid
Bennett Vadnais
Painting - 28.5 x 26.67 x 1.27 cm Painting - 11.2 x 10.5 x 0.5 inch
€4,200
I am free to imprison myself - II
Idan Wizen
Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0 inch
€450
Dancing in turquoise waters 02
Eric Alfaro
Painting - 215 x 65 cm Painting - 84.6 x 25.6 inch
€12,052
Back to Okiya : An Ivory Silent Ballet
Ryoko Watanabe
Sculpture - 170 x 85 x 30 cm Sculpture - 66.9 x 33.5 x 11.8 inch
€32,000
Alpha - série Bateaux
Sylvie Le Pape dite Khali
Painting - 30 x 40 x 1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
€275
Alzirr - série Bateaux
Sylvie Le Pape dite Khali
Painting - 30 x 40 x 1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
€275
Alkès - série Bateaux
Sylvie Le Pape dite Khali
Painting - 30 x 40 x 1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
€275
What we see in others is a reflection of ourselves
Esteban Vera
Painting - 110 x 89.9 x 12.7 cm Painting - 43.3 x 35.4 x 5 inch
€3,070
Be patient. Some things take time
Esteban Vera
Painting - 110 x 89.9 x 5.1 cm Painting - 43.3 x 35.4 x 2 inch
€3,022
Win the game before it's played
Esteban Vera
Painting - 110 x 89.9 x 5.1 cm Painting - 43.3 x 35.4 x 2 inch
€3,022
Der Pseudoschamane
Salvatore La Cola
Painting - 115 x 95 x 1 cm Painting - 45.3 x 37.4 x 0.4 inch
€6,896
JPM (original painting on paper 2022)
JP Malot
Painting - 50 x 65 x 1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 25.6 x 0.4 inch
€400
White Tiger Handmade Sculpture for Home Decor
Dervis Akdemir
Sculpture - 14 x 30 x 7 cm Sculpture - 5.5 x 11.8 x 2.8 inch
€171
Decks - In The Mix
Nick Veasey
Photography - 42 x 93.3 x 2 cm Photography - 16.5 x 36.7 x 0.8 inch
€19,700
Apparente dualismo
Angioletta De Nitto
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
€5,400
Sculpture Shetani Homme Sage
Agostino Malaba
Sculpture - 100 x 35 x 30 cm Sculpture - 39.4 x 13.8 x 11.8 inch
€3,000
Vaisselle 2
Jean-Robert Franco
Photography - 100 x 50 x 1 cm Photography - 39.4 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
€2,000
Abstraction, chaise
Jean-Robert Franco
Photography - 100 x 60 x 1 cm Photography - 39.4 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
€1,500
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!