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Marilyn Chanel N5
Gardani Art
Painting - 101.6 x 101.6 x 3.8 cm Painting - 40 x 40 x 1.5 inch
$5,000
Untitled #6. From the series There is an ocean in my glass
Ying Chen
Photography - 152.4 x 203.2 x 0.3 cm Photography - 60 x 80 x 0.1 inch
$4,000
Eggs and Oranges With Vase
Zhang Wei Guang
Painting - 50 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$12,214
Oranges in a Bowl
Zhang Wei Guang
Painting - 27.5 x 37.5 x 1 cm Painting - 10.8 x 14.8 x 0.4 inch
$8,595
Eggs and Newspaper
Zhang Wei Guang
Painting - 35 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 13.8 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$8,142
Winter in Berleburg
Karl-Karol Chrobok
Painting - 105 x 70 x 2.2 cm Painting - 41.3 x 27.6 x 0.9 inch
$4,071
Els arbres ploren III
Tatiana Blanqué
Painting - 20 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 7.9 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$509
Don't want to hear it
Kazuhiko Tanaka
Sculpture - 12 x 8 x 4.5 cm Sculpture - 4.7 x 3.1 x 1.8 inch
$322
Self-Portrait 24.14
Arthur Hent
Fine Art Drawings - 42 x 30 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$452
Snow-covered Branches
Simon Kozhin
Fine Art Drawings - 14.5 x 27.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 5.7 x 10.8 x 0 inch
$3,280
Gribouillage
Franck Rozet
Photography - 100 x 67 x 0.6 cm Photography - 39.4 x 26.4 x 0.2 inch
$2,771
Going for a walk
Eduardo Vega de Seoane
Painting - 160 x 180 x 3 cm Painting - 63 x 70.9 x 1.2 inch
$11,399
En el jardín
Eduardo Vega de Seoane
Painting - 130 x 97 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 38.2 x 1.2 inch
$6,491
Marbles 20
Carlos Bruscianelli
Painting - 121.9 x 172.7 x 3.8 cm Painting - 48 x 68 x 1.5 inch
$37,000
Voiture chauffe eau
Yannis Lagresle
Sculpture - 21 x 52 x 26 cm Sculpture - 8.3 x 20.5 x 10.2 inch
$3,845
Valsesia (black and red)
Mario Domenicale
Painting - 28 x 42 x 0.2 cm Painting - 11 x 16.5 x 0.1 inch
$204
Pas ce que vous pensiez : noir
Eugenia Jaeger
Print - 20.3 x 30.5 x 0.1 cm Print - 8 x 12 x 0 inch
$204
Space: is NOT the final frontier
Rene Gagnon
Print - 55.88 x 76.2 x 0.2 cm Print - 22 x 30 x 0.1 inch
$430
Fragment cathédrale
Florence Jarrige
Sculpture - 20 x 30 x 15 cm Sculpture - 7.9 x 11.8 x 5.9 inch
$3,958
Grossert Michael - 1970 Musée des Sables Barcarés
John Craven né Conte
Photography - 30 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$3,280 $2,952
Camargo - Musée des Sables Barcarès
John Craven né Conte
Photography - 40 x 36 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 14.2 x 0 inch
$3,280 $2,952
Voiturette vintage blanche
Art Pej
Sculpture - 40 x 77 x 41 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 30.3 x 16.1 inch
$656
Stronger Together
Bronle Crosby
Painting - 182.9 x 243.8 x 6.4 cm Painting - 72 x 96 x 2.5 inch
$11,750
Sculpture lumineuse B 104
Amélie Baudin
Design - 52 x 11 x 11 cm Design - 20.5 x 4.3 x 4.3 inch
$2,827
May the force be with you!
Amandine André
Photography - 11.5 x 16.5 x 1 cm Photography - 4.5 x 6.5 x 0.4 inch
$85
Yellow (Santa Maria)
Carlos Estrela
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$3,415
Cueillette de coton
Edna De Araraquara
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,714
The kettle
Claude Billès
Photography - 100 x 75 x 0.5 cm Photography - 39.4 x 29.5 x 0.2 inch
$2,375
New Mexico No. 12
Elizabeth Becker
Painting - 40.6 x 50.8 x 0.3 cm Painting - 16 x 20 x 0.1 inch
$230
Appalachians No. 13
Elizabeth Becker
Painting - 40.6 x 50.8 x 0.3 cm Painting - 16 x 20 x 0.1 inch
$180
Rebolada
Geraldo Pestalozzi
Photography - 40 x 29.7 x 0.2 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11.7 x 0.1 inch
$452
The demand of the time (Black & white)
Jacob Rantzau
Print - 108 x 159 cm Print - 42.5 x 62.6 inch
$3,675
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!