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Ma bulle
Emmanuelle Vroelant
Painting - 80 x 100 x 5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 2 inch
€4,800 €4,320
A portrait with wild flowers
Serghei Ghetiu
Painting - 80 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€1,400
The first white snow
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
€1,000
Contemporary portrait "Cat Country"
Nataliya Bagatskaya
Painting - 90 x 55 x 1.8 cm Painting - 35.4 x 21.7 x 0.7 inch
€1,990
Le street art c’était mieux avant
Onemizer
Painting - 20.1 x 20.1 x 0.3 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.1 inch
€1,500
L'oiseau qui rêve de Mer - Miniature 1
Pauline Couble
Sculpture - 11.5 x 7.5 x 14.5 cm Sculpture - 4.5 x 3 x 5.7 inch
€500
Abstract Spring Awakening
Vlas Ayvazyan
Painting - 50 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€576
Composition No. 447
Sumit Mehndiratta
Fine Art Drawings - 41 x 183 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.1 x 72 x 0 inch
€1,000
Les Collines Perdues
Alex Claude
Painting - 60 x 80 x 1.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.6 inch
€1,150
Passeur de brise
Pascal Billard
Sculpture - 78 x 45 x 30 cm Sculpture - 30.7 x 17.7 x 11.8 inch
€1,480
Set of 3 design vases - Faith, Hope, Love
Vik Schroeder
Design - 10 x 10 x 27 cm Design - 3.9 x 3.9 x 10.6 inch
€1,200 €960
Transition - visage II
Samuel Yal
Sculpture - 25 x 20 x 8 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 7.9 x 3.1 inch
€1,800
Regarder le temps passer
Ben
Fine Art Drawings - 27 x 23.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10.6 x 9.3 inch
€4,000
White and purple lilacs bouquet
Karine Harutyunyan
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€576
La dormeuse
Magdalena Lamri
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 30 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0 inch
€1,080
La forme de la mer
Benoit Barbagli
Painting - 117 x 219 x 3 cm Painting - 46.1 x 86.2 x 1.2 inch
€5,500
Compo ivoire et bleue
Bernard Neulat
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€500
White tulips on a pink background. Morning, spring
Lilya Volskaya
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€650
The little white butterflies
Alla Grande
Painting - 100 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
€2,000
Bat girl is a heroe
Sara Chelou
Painting - 100 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
€1,200 €1,080
Polo Party - Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print
Slim Aarons
Photography - 76.2 x 101.6 cm Photography - 30 x 40 inch
€3,300
Rhythmogramm 183A
Heinrich Heidersberger
Photography - 59.4 x 42 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.4 x 16.5 x 0 inch
€1,350
Neue Kammern Enfilade V. From the Neue Kammern Enfilades series
Celia Rogge
Photography - 182.9 x 121.9 x 0.3 cm Photography - 72 x 48 x 0.1 inch
€9,475
Red Rose of the Revolution
Parimah Avani
Painting - 21 x 28 x 0.2 cm Painting - 8.3 x 11 x 0.1 inch
€500 €425
Behind the mask
Grégoire Devin
Painting - 213.4 x 213.4 x 5.1 cm Painting - 84 x 84 x 2 inch
€19,573
Gliding Towards Tomorrow
Kpe Innocent
Painting - 80 x 80 x 5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 2 inch
€4,500
A Woman on a Blitch
Michael Gorban
Painting - 80 x 120 x 2.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 x 1 inch
€3,500
Vital XLIV. Scent Collection (5)
Tuba Onder Demircioglu
Sculpture - 61 x 15 x 10 cm Sculpture - 24 x 5.9 x 3.9 inch
€6,550
Le Moulin de la galette
Joseph Piermatteo
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
€3,200
Gontran (hommage à Modrian)
Flo Hombecq
Sculpture - 36 x 15 x 15 cm Sculpture - 14.2 x 5.9 x 5.9 inch
€950
Power Ball
Jessica Renault jrbrush
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.37 x 39.37 x 1 inch
€2,000
Duality
Alexandre de Poplavsky
Painting - 160 x 110 x 3.5 cm Painting - 63 x 43.3 x 1.4 inch
€28,000
Blooming Grace
Kayimahe Ishmael Zed
Painting - 89.9 x 70.1 x 2.5 cm Painting - 35.4 x 27.6 x 1 inch
€1,679
Descendent - Lucid Dreamer
James Jean
Sculpture - 32 x 15 x 15 cm Sculpture - 12.6 x 5.9 x 5.9 inch
€1,800
Vegas pop art black fashion
Christophe Comerro
Sculpture - 41 x 30 x 45 cm Sculpture - 16.1 x 11.8 x 17.7 inch
€1,180
Petite composition 7-24
Jean François Guelfi
Painting - 41 x 33 x 2 cm Painting - 16.1 x 13 x 0.8 inch
€250
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!