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![Painting, Early Morning, MaryAnn Cleary](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2170656_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Triangle noir demi jésus, Leopoldo Nóvoa](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2162235_1_grid.jpg)
Triangle noir demi jésus
Leopoldo Nóvoa
Print - 38.5 x 53.5 x 0.3 cm Print - 15.2 x 21.1 x 0.1 inch
$391
![Print, Path of Flowers, Hrair Gharib](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2155071_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, La Licorne magnifique dans sa lumineuse constellation, étoilée, Danielle Balagé](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2152040_1_grid.jpg)
La Licorne magnifique dans sa lumineuse constellation, étoilée
Danielle Balagé
Painting - 146 x 97 x 2 cm Painting - 57.5 x 38.2 x 0.8 inch
$6,655
![Sculpture, Dots variation bleu, Ferri Garcès](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2149576_1_grid.jpg)
Dots variation bleu
Ferri Garcès
Sculpture - 50 x 50 x 4 cm Sculpture - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
$5,033
![Painting, Boss having a hair cut, Suthamma (Ta) Byrne](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2129506_1_grid.jpg)
Boss having a hair cut
Suthamma (Ta) Byrne
Painting - 130 x 180 x 4 cm Painting - 51.2 x 70.9 x 1.6 inch
$6,688
![Design, Marbles (Peanuts) 400%, Bearbrick](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2121066_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Racines, Isabelle Goudin Pincin (Bizabo)](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2075388_1_grid.jpg)
Racines
Isabelle Goudin Pincin (Bizabo)
Fine Art Drawings - 45 x 30 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 17.7 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
$772
![Painting, Modern peonies, Marieta Martirosyan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2017611_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, To our birth place, Jérôme Dupré la Tour](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2012862_1_grid.jpg)
To our birth place
Jérôme Dupré la Tour
Photography - 220 x 300 cm Photography - 86.6 x 118.1 inch
$2,013
![Photography, Fife Regatta 2201, Götz Göppert](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2008671_1_grid.jpg)
Fife Regatta 2201
Götz Göppert
Photography - 60 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$755
![Sculpture, Trio ours Keith Haring co n° 2, André Gacko](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1977861_1_grid.jpg)
Trio ours Keith Haring co n° 2
André Gacko
Sculpture - 80 x 25 x 23 cm Sculpture - 31.5 x 9.8 x 9.1 inch
$4,138 $3,518
![Print, Trouble (Ice Cube), Mark Drew](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1974444_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Première neige, Gaston Sebire](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1971762_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Brume sur la seine, Gaston Sebire](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1971756_1_grid.jpg)
Brume sur la seine
Gaston Sebire
Painting - 73 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 28.7 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$4,362
![Print, Las Meninas, Manolo Valdés](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1936983_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Centaurea parilica, Lyuben Domozetski](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1899009_1_grid.jpg)
Centaurea parilica
Lyuben Domozetski
Painting - 28 x 21 x 0.2 cm Painting - 11 x 8.3 x 0.1 inch
$514
![Photography, Plan F - Photographie argentique - Ferteventura, Jules Gorce](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1788999_1_grid.jpg)
Plan F - Photographie argentique - Ferteventura
Jules Gorce
Photography - 20 x 30 x 0.1 cm Photography - 7.9 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$559
![Photography, Imbriqués - Photographie argentique - Ferteventura, Jules Gorce](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1788996_1_grid.jpg)
Imbriqués - Photographie argentique - Ferteventura
Jules Gorce
Photography - 20 x 30 x 0.1 cm Photography - 7.9 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$559
![Painting, 9 Marzo, Lucia Bergamini](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1772712_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Porsche 911 White, Antoine Dufilho](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1760379_1_grid.jpg)
Porsche 911 White
Antoine Dufilho
Sculpture - 19.5 x 76 x 33 cm Sculpture - 7.7 x 29.9 x 13 inch
$21,251
![Painting, System II, Christine Nobel](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1694004_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Entremêlement 3, Catherine Cazau](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1693212_1_grid.jpg)
![Design, Grande Mortaio Bronzeo for Martini & Rossi, Piero Fornasetti](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1677594_1_grid.jpg)
Grande Mortaio Bronzeo for Martini & Rossi
Piero Fornasetti
Design - 23.5 x 23.5 x 4 cm Design - 9.3 x 9.3 x 1.6 inch
$391
![Painting, Branch Study No. 38, Elizabeth Becker](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1619622_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Sv8, Stefano Mazzolini](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1591551_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Affinity, Yves Pero](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1571733_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Blanches, Jean Jourdan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1424205_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Scarce Swallowtail (Iphiclides podaliricus), Lyuben Domozetski](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1360323_1_grid.jpg)
Scarce Swallowtail (Iphiclides podaliricus)
Lyuben Domozetski
Painting - 29.7 x 21 x 0.1 cm Painting - 11.7 x 8.3 x 0 inch
$347
![Painting, Raven, Karla Carranza](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1320501_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Résistance, Bruno Feitussi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1195260_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Habitat, Lionel le Jeune](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1025064_1_grid.jpg)
Habitat
Lionel le Jeune
Photography - 84.8 x 115 x 0.2 cm Photography - 33.4 x 45.3 x 0.1 inch
$1,007
![Painting, Eye Study No. 20, Elizabeth Becker](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/705549_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Phénomènes, Untitled (volcanic eruption #2), Marina Gadonneix](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/656187_1_grid.jpg)
Phénomènes, Untitled (volcanic eruption #2)
Marina Gadonneix
Photography - 29 x 22.4 x 0.2 cm Photography - 11.4 x 8.8 x 0.1 inch
$157
![Photography, Série: Se faire passer pour Mao, Nathalie Daoust](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/463276_1_grid.jpg)
Série: Se faire passer pour Mao
Nathalie Daoust
Photography - 90 x 60 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 inch
$2,796
![Photography, Série : Se faire passer pour Mao, Nathalie Daoust](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/463267_1_grid.jpg)
Série : Se faire passer pour Mao
Nathalie Daoust
Photography - 60 x 90 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 inch
$2,796
![Photography, Série : Se faire passer pour Mao, Nathalie Daoust](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/463264_1_grid.jpg)
Série : Se faire passer pour Mao
Nathalie Daoust
Photography - 60 x 90 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 inch
$2,796
![Photography, Série : Se faire passer pour Mao, Nathalie Daoust](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/463252_1_grid.jpg)
Série : Se faire passer pour Mao
Nathalie Daoust
Photography - 60 x 90 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 inch
$2,796
![Photography, Série : Se faire passer pour Mao, Nathalie Daoust](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/463246_1_grid.jpg)
Série : Se faire passer pour Mao
Nathalie Daoust
Photography - 60 x 90 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 inch
$2,796
![Photography, Tirages sur papier photo: 2011-III-1-2, Gottfried Jäger](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/463174_1_grid.jpg)
Tirages sur papier photo: 2011-III-1-2
Gottfried Jäger
Photography - 60 x 50 x 3 cm Photography - 23.6 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$16,777
![Painting, The Confidant, Ricardo Fabián Bertona](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2180262_1_grid.jpg)
The Confidant
Ricardo Fabián Bertona
Painting - 110 x 110 x 1 cm Painting - 43.3 x 43.3 x 0.4 inch
$8,000
![Painting, Piano Jazzy, Antonio "Anton" Ribeiro](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2178868_1_grid.jpg)
Piano Jazzy
Antonio "Anton" Ribeiro
Painting - 45 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 17.7 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
$727
![Painting, Miroir en éclat, Kaouteur Souibgui](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2158814_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Rhinocéros et éléphants, Jürg Kreienbühl](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2157776_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Sopranos, Al Hirschfeld](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2156183_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Marga, Pepita](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2152112_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, White flower, Yael Hoenig](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2142713_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Dominique, Bongo](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2133553_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, NASA, Fanni Mayer](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2128249_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Medusa, Matteo Nannini](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2124633_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Imagine, Virginia Benedicto](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2120037_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Awkward, Xiaodong Liu](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2107485_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Manu, Pepita](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2097894_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Sin título, Miquel Ponce](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2094150_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, In the moment guitar, Erik Paul](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2054379_1_grid.jpg)
In the moment guitar
Erik Paul
Painting - 152.4 x 121.9 x 10.2 cm Painting - 60 x 48 x 4 inch
$9,750
![Painting, Daisy petals aloft, Carrie Makenna](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2044677_1_grid.jpg)
Daisy petals aloft
Carrie Makenna
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 5.1 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 2 inch
$2,800
![Photography, Les trois ponts, Georgii Vinogradov](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2017950_1_grid.jpg)
Les trois ponts
Georgii Vinogradov
Photography - 20 x 38 x 0.2 cm Photography - 7.9 x 15 x 0.1 inch
$559
![Painting, La guerrière, Ludovica Cholet](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1994016_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Nueve secuencias en horizontal, Ana Pérez Pereda](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1963605_1_grid.jpg)
Nueve secuencias en horizontal
Ana Pérez Pereda
Print - 31 x 145 x 1 cm Print - 12.2 x 57.1 x 0.4 inch
$2,572
![Print, Estudios de Secuencias diacrónicas, Ana Pérez Pereda](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1963551_1_grid.jpg)
Estudios de Secuencias diacrónicas
Ana Pérez Pereda
Print - 150 x 60 x 1 cm Print - 59.1 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
$4,541
![Print, Desfases, Ana Pérez Pereda](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1963530_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Bólidos, Ana Pérez Pereda](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1963524_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Dancer series 6, Du Ke](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1959729_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Dancer series 4, Du Ke](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1959720_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Dancer series 2, Du Ke](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1959684_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Dancer series 1, Du Ke](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1959681_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Ulysse (croquis), Pasturo](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1916211_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Sin título, Miquel Ponce](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1915524_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Sin título, Miquel Ponce](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1904697_1_grid.jpg)
![Design, Sagamore short bowl Tondo Doni, Mario Cioni](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1899939_1_grid.jpg)
Sagamore short bowl Tondo Doni
Mario Cioni
Design - 9 x 30 x 30 cm Design - 3.5 x 11.8 x 11.8 inch
$895
![Painting, Surf, Sun & Sand XIV, Peter Goodhall](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1884924_1_grid.jpg)
Surf, Sun & Sand XIV
Peter Goodhall
Painting - 77 x 127 x 3 cm Painting - 30.3 x 50 x 1.2 inch
$2,554
![Painting, Urban Patterns, Carl McGrady](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1852785_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Urban Patterns-Village St., Carl McGrady](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1852293_1_grid.jpg)
Urban Patterns-Village St.
Carl McGrady
Painting - 61 x 61 x 2.5 cm Painting - 24 x 24 x 1 inch
$2,500
![Sculpture, Chat persan, François Galoyer](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1801158_1_grid.jpg)
Chat persan
François Galoyer
Sculpture - 32 x 48 x 15.5 cm Sculpture - 12.6 x 18.9 x 6.1 inch
$11,744
![Painting, Nature Morte verte, Mascarade](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1800996_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Balloon Art - Money USD Dollar, MVR](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1796328_1_grid.jpg)
Balloon Art - Money USD Dollar
MVR
Sculpture - 22 x 15 x 15 cm Sculpture - 8.7 x 5.9 x 5.9 inch
$308
![Painting, Paysage abstrait 4, Trabys](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1763913_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Laundromat, GraffMatt](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1700583_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Sasuke, Masahisa Fukase](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1656285_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Metafora, Ugo Carrega](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1619100_1_grid.jpg)
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![Painting, Douce Insomnie, Jeanne Saint-Chéron](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1300020_1_grid.jpg)
Douce Insomnie
Jeanne Saint-Chéron
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$3,915
![Print, The Labours of Hercule - Fight against the Nemean lion, Ossip Zadkine](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1251990_1_grid.jpg)
The Labours of Hercule - Fight against the Nemean lion
Ossip Zadkine
Print - 69 x 53 x 0.2 cm Print - 27.2 x 20.9 x 0.1 inch
$391
![Print, The Labours of Hercule - Cerberus, Ossip Zadkine](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1251552_1_grid.jpg)
The Labours of Hercule - Cerberus
Ossip Zadkine
Print - 69 x 53 x 0.2 cm Print - 27.2 x 20.9 x 0.1 inch
$391
![Photography, Untitled (2). From series: Secret Photography - Cliché Verre and Photograms, Eliška Bartek](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1171641_1_grid.jpg)
Untitled (2). From series: Secret Photography - Cliché Verre and Photograms
Eliška Bartek
Photography - 40 x 30 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11.8 inch
$2,572
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![Painting, Odile, Nadel](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1007817_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Grand carré long 84, Tehos](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/626424_1_grid.jpg)
Grand carré long 84
Tehos
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$390
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![Photography, A letter to my lost childhood, Solomon Jamy Brown](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/552595_1_grid.jpg)
A letter to my lost childhood
Solomon Jamy Brown
Photography - 100 x 70 cm Photography - 39.4 x 27.6 inch
$2,796
![Sculpture, Topo Map 6, Cal Lane](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/246562_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Tripe, Meteo Meteo](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2180199_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!