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Cup of coffee and tangerine
Irina Trushkova
Painting - 25 x 35 x 2 cm Painting - 9.8 x 13.8 x 0.8 inch
€1,400
Inconnu
Sonic (Jesse Rodriguez)
Painting - 27 x 116 x 0.3 cm Painting - 10.6 x 45.7 x 0.1 inch
€1,500
Take a walk in the wild side
Edu Danesi
Painting - 115 x 80 x 5 cm Painting - 45.3 x 31.5 x 2 inch
€3,750
The Rebirth of Wilhelm
Andrei Shchurok
Painting - 130 x 190 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 74.8 x 1.2 inch
€7,500
The Lady with The LV Bag and The Pink Moon
Carmen Carpena
Painting - 61 x 46 cm Painting - 24 x 18.1 inch
€1,500
Soft abstraction IX
Tamara Bakhshinyan
Painting - 70 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
€599 €540
Skull in the Meditation with Neon Design
Dervis Akdemir
Sculpture - 32 x 32 x 25 cm Sculpture - 12.6 x 12.6 x 9.8 inch
€727
To overshoot A362
Vito Sardano
Painting - 50 x 50 x 15 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 5.9 inch
€2,000 €1,900
Sans titre
Vassily Kandinsky
Fine Art Drawings - 31 x 49 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12.2 x 19.3 inch
€60,000
Invader Marilyn urban wall
Lasveguix
Painting - 61 x 46 x 3 cm Painting - 24 x 18.1 x 1.2 inch
€1,150
Elegance Rider
Shahen Aleksandryan
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,159
Topographie végétale (2)
Sophie Zénon
Sculpture - 50 x 15 x 15 cm Sculpture - 19.7 x 5.9 x 5.9 inch
€2,200
Masquerade of emotions
Aram Sevoyan
Painting - 90 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€1,931
M16 USA
André Robillard
Fine Art Drawings - 47 x 68 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 18.5 x 26.8 x 0 inch
€1,800
Sol enneigé 1
Camille Brès
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 40 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
€2,400
Ballet Series II
Miguel Angel Lozano Bonora
Fine Art Drawings - 70 x 50 x 0.01 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
€690
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
€1,255
Life Posture IV
Wenqin Chen
Sculpture - 200 x 175 x 161 cm Sculpture - 78.7 x 68.9 x 63.4 inch
€102,800
Birthday pop cakes in the 18th century
David Carey
Photography - 18 x 9 x 0.1 cm Photography - 7.1 x 3.5 x 0 inch
€99
Black Burger CH Tribute
Di Lorenzo
Sculpture - 17 x 17 x 17 cm Sculpture - 6.7 x 6.7 x 6.7 inch
€840
Self-portrait on fruit
Julien Delagrange
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 30 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0 inch
€1,800
When looking at this with closed eyes (dyptique)
Shusaku Arakawa
Print - 105 x 146 x 0.1 cm Print - 41.3 x 57.5 x 0 inch
€1,400
Apartment in the Upper East Side, featuring a painting by Yoshitomo Nara.
Josh Delo
Painting - 140 x 113 x 4 cm Painting - 55.1 x 44.5 x 1.6 inch
€19,000
My Real Doggs (RIP Nate Doggs)
Mark Drew
Painting - 152.4 x 152.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 60 x 60 x 1.5 inch
€28,969
Mon loft à Brooklyn
Nelson Fabiano
Painting - 30 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 11.8 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
€1,200
Alter Ego
Franklin Ndibam
Painting - 140 x 100.1 x 2.5 cm Painting - 55.1 x 39.4 x 1 inch
€3,718 €3,346
Untitled (All communication must cease)
David Shrigley
Fine Art Drawings - 36.5 x 28 x 2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 14.4 x 11 x 0.8 inch
€9,174
Natural Flow Series n11
Rosario Briones
Painting - 99.8 x 69.9 x 0.3 cm Painting - 39.3 x 27.5 x 0.1 inch
€1,545
Black Angel
Abiola Olabamiji
Painting - 121.9 x 121.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 48 x 48 x 1 inch
€2,462 €2,216
Omosewa
Amiolemen Emmanuel
Painting - 101.6 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 40 x 36 x 1 inch
€2,269 €2,042
Marée basse à Le Palais - Série village et port de Belle-île-en-mer
Yves Guillard
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€1,875
Sass Mousse, Réalisé sans violence envers les élastiques
ROWIN ATELIER
Design - 52 x 15 x 5 cm Design - 20.5 x 5.9 x 2 inch
€900
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!