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Abstaction damier
Jean-Robert Franco
Photography - 80 x 60 x 1 cm Photography - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
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1 - Les âges de la vie - Jadis
Mita Vostok
Photography - 60 x 40 x 1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
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Watercolor on photo #6
Sanne De Wilde Bénédicte Kurzen
Photography - 21 x 14.85 cm Photography - 8.3 x 5.8 inch
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Nous sommes tous des enfants - 2
Jean Valera
Photography - 20 x 30 x 0.3 cm Photography - 7.9 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
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Nous sommes tous des enfants
Jean Valera
Photography - 20 x 30 x 0.3 cm Photography - 7.9 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
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Bérénice Bejo & Stéphane de Groodt
Franck Leclerc
Photography - 60 x 50 x 1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
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Self portrait on the gulf on Naples
Daniele Sigalot
Photography - 60 x 90 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 inch
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Requiem pour pianos 30
Romain Thiery
Photography - 100 x 150 x 6 cm Photography - 39.4 x 59.1 x 2.4 inch
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The family, Skrova – Norway 2012
Gonçalo Martins
Photography - 19 x 19 x 0.1 cm Photography - 7.5 x 7.5 x 0 inch
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Broadway-Simplon
Stéphane Martin
Photography - 40 x 30 x 0.04 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0 inch
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Rainy Days in Hong Kong II
Sven Pfrommer
Photography - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
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Hotel Majestic
José Nicolas
Photography - 60 x 90 x 0.2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.1 inch
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Marchand ambulant, Phnom Penh
José Nicolas
Photography - 60 x 90 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0 inch
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Sans titre 8, de la série Un été sans fin
Irène Jonas
Photography - 10.8 x 8.8 x 0.2 cm Photography - 4.3 x 3.5 x 0.1 inch
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Ma mère et ses amies
Didier Bizet
Photography - 30 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0 inch
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Un dimanche à la campagne
Didier Bizet
Photography - 20 x 30 x 0.1 cm Photography - 7.9 x 11.8 x 0 inch
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32-Tour de France femmes 2022 6ème étape Saint-Dié-des-Vosges - Rosheim. La commune de Rosheim en Alsace.
Jérémy Lempin
Photography - 50 x 40 cm Photography - 19.7 x 15.7 inch
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Weisshorn – Bishorn
Thomas Crauwels
Photography - 100 x 100 x 1 cm Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
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Un charcutier plein d’imagination et une cliente perplexe, Paris, années 1950
Maurice Bonnel
Photography - 40 x 30 x 0.2 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
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Eczéma domestique 2
Thomas Deschamps
Photography - 30 x 40 x 0.2 cm Photography - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
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Alpinistes sur l’Ober
Thomas Crauwels
Photography - 90 x 180 x 1 cm Photography - 35.4 x 70.9 x 0.4 inch
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Grandes Jorasses
Thomas Crauwels
Photography - 100 x 150 x 1 cm Photography - 39.4 x 59.1 x 0.4 inch
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Les chats de Schrödinger (1)
Arthur Di Nunzio
Photography - 30 x 45 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 17.7 x 0 inch
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Les chats de Schrödinger (7)
Arthur Di Nunzio
Photography - 30 x 45 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 17.7 x 0 inch
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Les chats de Schrödinger (2)
Arthur Di Nunzio
Photography - 30 x 45 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 17.7 x 0 inch
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Zinalrothorn – Weisshorn
Thomas Crauwels
Photography - 100 x 100 x 1 cm Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
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Dent du Midi – Forteresse et Cathedrale
Thomas Crauwels
Photography - 80 x 120 x 1 cm Photography - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0.4 inch
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Cîme de l’Est
Thomas Crauwels
Photography - 180 x 90 x 1 cm Photography - 70.9 x 35.4 x 0.4 inch
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Weisshorn – King of my castle
Thomas Crauwels
Photography - 90 x 180 x 1 cm Photography - 35.4 x 70.9 x 0.4 inch
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Panorama 4000 de Zermatt
Thomas Crauwels
Photography - 90 x 180 x 1 cm Photography - 35.4 x 70.9 x 0.4 inch
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Dent Blanche
Thomas Crauwels
Photography - 90 x 135 x 1 cm Photography - 35.4 x 53.1 x 0.4 inch
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Dent Blanche
Thomas Crauwels
Photography - 90 x 135 x 1 cm Photography - 35.4 x 53.1 x 0.4 inch
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Dent Blanche et Grand Cornier
Thomas Crauwels
Photography - 100 x 100 x 1 cm Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
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Dent Blanche Zermatt
Thomas Crauwels
Photography - 90 x 135 x 1 cm Photography - 35.4 x 53.1 x 0.4 inch
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Dent Blanche – Obergabelhorn
Thomas Crauwels
Photography - 90 x 135 x 1 cm Photography - 35.4 x 53.1 x 0.4 inch
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Sommet du Cervin
Thomas Crauwels
Photography - 80 x 160 x 1 cm Photography - 31.5 x 63 x 0.4 inch
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Dent Blanche panoramique
Thomas Crauwels
Photography - 80 x 160 x 1 cm Photography - 31.5 x 63 x 0.4 inch
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Panorama des Combins
Thomas Crauwels
Photography - 90 x 180 x 1 cm Photography - 35.4 x 70.9 x 0.4 inch
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Combin – Cervin – Mont Rose
Thomas Crauwels
Photography - 60 x 180 x 1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 70.9 x 0.4 inch
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Vallée des Combins
Thomas Crauwels
Photography - 100 x 150 x 1 cm Photography - 39.4 x 59.1 x 0.4 inch
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Pizzo Bianco – Bernina
Thomas Crauwels
Photography - 100 x 100 x 1 cm Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
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Pizzo Bianco
Thomas Crauwels
Photography - 100 x 100 x 1 cm Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
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Storm on Mont-Blanc
Thomas Crauwels
Photography - 100 x 150 x 1 cm Photography - 39.4 x 59.1 x 0.4 inch
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Massif du Mont-Blanc panorama
Thomas Crauwels
Photography - 60 x 180 x 1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 70.9 x 0.4 inch
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Eiger Monch Jungfrau panoramique
Thomas Crauwels
Photography - 90 x 180 x 1 cm Photography - 35.4 x 70.9 x 0.4 inch
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Eiger – Mittellegi
Thomas Crauwels
Photography - 80 x 120 x 1 cm Photography - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0.4 inch
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Obergabelhorn
Thomas Crauwels
Photography - 100 x 150 x 1 cm Photography - 39.4 x 59.1 x 0.4 inch
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Obergabelhorn
Thomas Crauwels
Photography - 100 x 150 x 1 cm Photography - 39.4 x 59.1 x 0.4 inch
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Mont Rose – Obergabelhorn
Thomas Crauwels
Photography - 100 x 150 x 1 cm Photography - 39.4 x 59.1 x 0.4 inch
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Cervin – Ober – Dent d’Hérens
Thomas Crauwels
Photography - 90 x 135 x 1 cm Photography - 35.4 x 53.1 x 0.4 inch
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Obergabelhorn – Matterhorn
Thomas Crauwels
Photography - 135 x 90 x 1 cm Photography - 53.1 x 35.4 x 0.4 inch
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Ober Gabelhorn
Thomas Crauwels
Photography - 90 x 135 x 1 cm Photography - 35.4 x 53.1 x 0.4 inch
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Matterhorn – Obergabelhorn
Thomas Crauwels
Photography - 100 x 150 x 1 cm Photography - 39.4 x 59.1 x 0.4 inch
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Matterhorn North Face
Thomas Crauwels
Photography - 150 x 100 x 1 cm Photography - 59.1 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
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Cervin forme parfaite
Thomas Crauwels
Photography - 100 x 150 x 1 cm Photography - 39.4 x 59.1 x 0.4 inch
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Premières neige à Zinal
Thomas Crauwels
Photography - 80 x 240 x 1 cm Photography - 31.5 x 94.5 x 0.4 inch
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Panorama couronne impériale
Thomas Crauwels
Photography - 90 x 270 x 1 cm Photography - 35.4 x 106.3 x 0.4 inch
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Au-delà du Blanc de Moming se dressent l’Obergabelhorn et le Cervin
Thomas Crauwels
Photography - 120 x 120 x 1 cm Photography - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0.4 inch
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Combins panoramique
Thomas Crauwels
Photography - 120 x 240 x 1 cm Photography - 47.2 x 94.5 x 0.4 inch
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Marilyn red classic full roses Glitters
Bert Stern
Photography - 43 x 30 cm Photography - 16.9 x 11.8 inch
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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!