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![Sculpture, Tt6bs, Stefano Mazzolini](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1544601_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Heart(black and white)-IV, Stanislav Bojankov](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1525140_1_grid.jpg)
Heart(black and white)-IV
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 120 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
€2,000
![Painting, Heart(black and white)-II, Stanislav Bojankov](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1525131_1_grid.jpg)
Heart(black and white)-II
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 120 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
€2,000
![Fine Art Drawings, La ferme, Bernard Gantner](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1283226_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Rolex Submariner Black Blue, Vincent Sabatier](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1265250_1_grid.jpg)
Rolex Submariner Black Blue
Vincent Sabatier
Print - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Print - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
€180
![Print, C'est lui !, Neno Ramos](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1106916_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Blanche et Narcès, Sophie Manaches](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1058880_1_grid.jpg)
Blanche et Narcès
Sophie Manaches
Painting - 65 x 50 x 0.3 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
€750
![Painting, Moulin Rouge, Valentyna Odnolko](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1016811_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Cascade., Corinne Marino](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/999906_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Gestures (Stranger than Paradise), Stefanie Schneider](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/859704_1_grid.jpg)
Gestures (Stranger than Paradise)
Stefanie Schneider
Photography - 207 x 155 x 0.3 cm Photography - 81.5 x 61 x 0.1 inch
€26,000
![Painting, Sans Titre, Philippe Lepatre](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/701004_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Une ballade, Marie Aimer](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/429615_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, GRANDIOSE SUMOCAT : WHITE DANCE AND BATTLES OF BALANCE, Hiro Ando](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/428529_1_grid.jpg)
GRANDIOSE SUMOCAT : WHITE DANCE AND BATTLES OF BALANCE
Hiro Ando
Sculpture - 150 x 180 x 120 cm Sculpture - 59.1 x 70.9 x 47.2 inch
€30,000
![Photography, N°1146, Jean-Paul Baret](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/312883_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Mustang, Philippe Viejo](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2179485_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Love always wins, Yuvi Gold](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2178908_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Over the Millennia, Nemanja Nikolic](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2175050_1_grid.jpg)
Over the Millennia
Nemanja Nikolic
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 2 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 0.78 inch
€1,700
![Painting, Revelation in Abstraction, Nytia Jenkins](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2158353_1_grid.jpg)
Revelation in Abstraction
Nytia Jenkins
Painting - 27.94 x 35.56 x 2 cm Painting - 11 x 14 x 0.8 inch
€2,400
![Painting, Dos au mur - série Street Art, Henri Mahé dit HIM](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2154792_1_grid.jpg)
Dos au mur - série Street Art
Henri Mahé dit HIM
Painting - 100 x 81 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 1.2 inch
€2,875
![Painting, Underneath It All, Nemanja Nikolic](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2154222_1_grid.jpg)
Underneath It All
Nemanja Nikolic
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 2 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 0.78 inch
€1,700
![Design, Campbell's White Bat, Ske](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2154091_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Holding back the years, Nemanja Nikolic](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2147140_1_grid.jpg)
Holding back the years
Nemanja Nikolic
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 2 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 0.78 inch
€1,700
![Design, Hope Girl Bat, Ske](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2137038_1_grid.jpg)
![Design, Banksy x Nike OFF WHITE Chicago, Ske](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2121777_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Pchit, Dezache](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2095401_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, America's Bordeaux, Thomas Arvid](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2083623_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Red flowers, Bat'Art](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2078016_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Cold bed, Igor Shulman](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2061804_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Very difficult ease., Igor Shulman](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2061753_1_grid.jpg)
Very difficult ease.
Igor Shulman
Painting - 79.8 x 119.9 x 5.1 cm Painting - 31.4 x 47.2 x 2 inch
€4,075
![Painting, Retro beach, Igor Shulman](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2061705_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Golden field 210710, Don Bishop](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2050671_1_grid.jpg)
Golden field 210710
Don Bishop
Painting - 91.4 x 152.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 60 x 1.5 inch
€4,560
![Painting, Son Serra de Marina (Mallorca), Emilio Cardona](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1993986_1_grid.jpg)
Son Serra de Marina (Mallorca)
Emilio Cardona
Painting - 30 x 40 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 inch
€580
![Print, Skyline in the dust, Thomas Falkner](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1978824_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Next, Roland Topor](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1977279_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Re-bonjour, Roland Topor](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1977219_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Country Silence, Nemanja Nikolic](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1967559_1_grid.jpg)
Country Silence
Nemanja Nikolic
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 2 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.78 inch
€1,200
![Sculpture, Fossile V5, Laurent Lamarche](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1942104_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Party, Ksenia Beliaeva](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1934499_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, L'avenir arrive, Sylvie Laliberté](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1929501_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, No. 007, Sylvie Laliberté](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1929483_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, 3 poires posant pour une nature morte, Sylvie Laliberté](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1929477_1_grid.jpg)
3 poires posant pour une nature morte
Sylvie Laliberté
Print - 63.5 x 48.3 x 1.3 cm Print - 25 x 19 x 0.5 inch
€1,100
![Print, Pomme pomme pomme poire pomme, Sylvie Laliberté](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1929474_1_grid.jpg)
Pomme pomme pomme poire pomme
Sylvie Laliberté
Print - 63.5 x 48.3 x 1.3 cm Print - 25 x 19 x 0.5 inch
€1,100
![Print, Deux chiens là-bas au loin sur le papier, Sylvie Laliberté](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1929468_1_grid.jpg)
Deux chiens là-bas au loin sur le papier
Sylvie Laliberté
Print - 63.5 x 48.3 x 1.3 cm Print - 25 x 19 x 0.5 inch
€1,100
![Design, Untitled (Snake) (after Keith Haring), Keith Haring](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1906188_1_grid.jpg)
Untitled (Snake) (after Keith Haring)
Keith Haring
Design - 80 x 20 x 2 cm Design - 31.5 x 7.9 x 0.8 inch
€315
![Painting, Abstract painting PH877, Radek Smach](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1865499_1_grid.jpg)
Abstract painting PH877
Radek Smach
Painting - 39.9 x 39.9 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
€417
![Sculpture, Girouette, Albert Chubac](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1802172_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Waterfall on the Belous, Victor Onyshchenko](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1797267_1_grid.jpg)
Waterfall on the Belous
Victor Onyshchenko
Painting - 55 x 72 x 2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 28.3 x 0.8 inch
€1,550
![Painting, Sedniv, Victor Onyshchenko](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1797159_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Karl Bat&Art, Ske](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1769907_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Boccacce (trittico), Rossella Mercedes](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1766928_1_grid.jpg)
Boccacce (trittico)
Rossella Mercedes
Fine Art Drawings - 14.8 x 63 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 5.8 x 24.8 x 0.1 inch
€150
![Sculpture, Sans titre, Eddy Firmin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1726530_1_grid.jpg)
![Design, Untitled (Heart), Keith Haring](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1725555_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Brugmensia arborea, Azulaska](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1687548_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Street comfort, Paul J Bucknall](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1661718_1_grid.jpg)
Street comfort
Paul J Bucknall
Photography - 61 x 40.6 x 0.3 cm Photography - 24 x 16 x 0.1 inch
€647
![Fine Art Drawings, Places (2), Robbie Cornelissen](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1647519_1_grid.jpg)
Places (2)
Robbie Cornelissen
Fine Art Drawings - 30.5 x 41.9 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12 x 16.5 x 0.1 inch
€1,690
![Fine Art Drawings, Places (1), Robbie Cornelissen](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1647516_1_grid.jpg)
Places (1)
Robbie Cornelissen
Fine Art Drawings - 22.9 x 30.5 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9 x 12 x 0.1 inch
€1,690
![Fine Art Drawings, Places (underworld), Robbie Cornelissen](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1647513_1_grid.jpg)
Places (underworld)
Robbie Cornelissen
Fine Art Drawings - 25.4 x 33 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10 x 13 x 0.1 inch
€1,690
![Print, Marilyn as Chérie Ledoux, Agent X](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1597092_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Magnolia - Venus, Poonam Choudhary](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1578717_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Stay here, L.E.T.](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1523190_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, In the Depths, Nemanja Nikolic](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1520685_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Red Head 01, White Bottom 11, Red Dot, Anna Celie Nastasia Meyer](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1504422_1_grid.jpg)
Red Head 01, White Bottom 11, Red Dot
Anna Celie Nastasia Meyer
Sculpture - 66 x 23 x 22 cm Sculpture - 26 x 9.1 x 8.7 inch
€5,338
![Painting, Serie Las Piadosas, Enriqueta Aguiló](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1475346_1_grid.jpg)
Serie Las Piadosas
Enriqueta Aguiló
Painting - 110 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 43.3 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
€5,770
![Photography, De la Terre à la Lune - 05, Bruno Palisson](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1459830_1_grid.jpg)
De la Terre à la Lune - 05
Bruno Palisson
Photography - 40 x 60 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 inch
€900
![Photography, Taking pictures/ Their life-Cameroon, Gilbert Ryu](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1458219_1_grid.jpg)
Taking pictures/ Their life-Cameroon
Gilbert Ryu
Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0 inch
€750
![Photography, Reserved/Their life-Cameroon, Gilbert Ryu](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1458201_1_grid.jpg)
Reserved/Their life-Cameroon
Gilbert Ryu
Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0 inch
€750
![Photography, From Glass to Reflections - 7, Bruno Palisson](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1457133_1_grid.jpg)
From Glass to Reflections - 7
Bruno Palisson
Photography - 40 x 60 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 inch
€900
![Photography, From Glass to Reflections - 6, Bruno Palisson](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1457130_1_grid.jpg)
From Glass to Reflections - 6
Bruno Palisson
Photography - 40 x 60 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 inch
€900
![Painting, Jeu de Dames, Loup Y-Es-Tu ?](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1445244_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Monopoloup II, Loup Y-Es-Tu ?](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1443828_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Memoires, Rajae Qarrou](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1440606_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Nous ne sommes pas les derniers 203, Zoran Music](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1437195_1_grid.jpg)
Nous ne sommes pas les derniers 203
Zoran Music
Print - 26.5 x 23.5 cm Print - 10.4 x 9.3 inch
€3,000
![Painting, Open Up, Sjaak Korsten](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1410111_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Open Up, Sjaak Korsten](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1410099_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Here, Sjaak Korsten](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1410096_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, From Now From Here, Sjaak Korsten](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1360821_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Sans titre 331, Danielle Prijikorski](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1335741_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Puma, Erekle Tsuladze](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1320978_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Rolex Silver, Vincent Sabatier](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1282698_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Rolex Daytona, Vincent Sabatier](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1282659_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Goldorak X, Vincent Sabatier](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1282611_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Darth Vader II, Vincent Sabatier](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1282593_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Chanel Parfum Coco, Vincent Sabatier](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1266291_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Bitcoins Silver, Vincent Sabatier](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1266276_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Batman II, Vincent Sabatier](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1265157_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, We Don't Know How Water Is Blue #2, Tran Trong Vu](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1201605_1_grid.jpg)
We Don't Know How Water Is Blue #2
Tran Trong Vu
Painting - 254 x 101.6 x 2.5 cm Painting - 100 x 40 x 1 inch
€2,231
![Fine Art Drawings, Gaze up to the Sky, Tomo Sakurai](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1149735_1_grid.jpg)
Gaze up to the Sky
Tomo Sakurai
Fine Art Drawings - 60 x 45 x 3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 23.6 x 17.7 x 1.2 inch
€2,400
![Painting, Varie Vigvre VIII, Jean-Charles Taillandier](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1122279_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Varie Vigvre VII, Jean-Charles Taillandier](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1122276_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Varie Vigvre V, Jean-Charles Taillandier](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1122270_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Varie Vigvre II, Jean-Charles Taillandier](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1122264_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Catelirci, Zwy Milshtein](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1104681_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, The Bruiser, Giuseppe Megna](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/971826_1_grid.jpg)
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!