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![Painting, The cello player, Anatoly Metlan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2120745_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Winter Birches, Jim Lagasse](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2068482_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Winter Calm, Jim Lagasse](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2068413_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Peace Out Astronaut, Dervis Akdemir](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2012295_1_grid.jpg)
Peace Out Astronaut
Dervis Akdemir
Sculpture - 48 x 35 x 14 cm Sculpture - 18.9 x 13.8 x 5.5 inch
€370
![Sculpture, Sneaker Slam Jordan & Basketball pop art sculpture, Dervis Akdemir](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2011962_1_grid.jpg)
Sneaker Slam Jordan & Basketball pop art sculpture
Dervis Akdemir
Sculpture - 22 x 20 x 3 cm Sculpture - 8.7 x 7.9 x 1.2 inch
€407
![Sculpture, Banana grab, Dervis Akdemir](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2011941_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Une histoire en bleu, Christiane Guerry](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2002209_1_grid.jpg)
Une histoire en bleu
Christiane Guerry
Painting - 50 x 70 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 1.2 inch
€2,500
![Painting, Freedom People ,,Acrobats``, Eka Peradze](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1996098_1_grid.jpg)
Freedom People ,,Acrobats``
Eka Peradze
Painting - 75 x 115 x 2 cm Painting - 29.5 x 45.3 x 0.8 inch
€2,890
![Painting, Jeune fille cueillant des fleurs, C. A.](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1987872_1_grid.jpg)
Jeune fille cueillant des fleurs
C. A.
Painting - 34.5 x 24 x 2 cm Painting - 13.6 x 9.4 x 0.8 inch
€1,234
![Painting, Pulp Fiction Uma, Spaco](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1953411_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Douceur sucrée - série Sucettes, Jackie Spaeter](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1932525_1_grid.jpg)
Douceur sucrée - série Sucettes
Jackie Spaeter
Painting - 80 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
€475
![Painting, Details II, Lyudmyla Davydenko](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1893537_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Betta BW 44, Michael Filonow](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1875450_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Patagonia, Michael Filonow](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1858992_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, The betta gang, Michael Filonow](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1841961_1_grid.jpg)
The betta gang
Michael Filonow
Photography - 76.2 x 76.2 x 0.3 cm Photography - 30 x 30 x 0.1 inch
€548
![Painting, Anna's aroma, Eugenia Isen](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1831776_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Esku XXVIII, Eduardo Chillida](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/180031_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Reflets du matin... (Esprit Voile), Olivier Messas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1786659_1_grid.jpg)
Reflets du matin... (Esprit Voile)
Olivier Messas
Painting - 3 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 1.2 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
€600
![Photography, # Wakan Tanka, Clara Antonelli](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1617486_1_grid.jpg)
# Wakan Tanka
Clara Antonelli
Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.62 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.2 inch
€1,200
![Painting, Do or Undo, Marco Barberio](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1591710_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Aurore d'été... (Esprit voile 2021), Olivier Messas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1566072_1_grid.jpg)
Aurore d'été... (Esprit voile 2021)
Olivier Messas
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€1,800
![Painting, Lapin mouton, Michèle Corotti](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1556145_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Balance Series #9, Lana Matsuyama](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1326546_1_grid.jpg)
Balance Series #9
Lana Matsuyama
Sculpture - 60 x 35 x 30 cm Sculpture - 23.6 x 13.8 x 11.8 inch
€6,166
![Photography, Kalaallit Nunaat 10-10, Antoine Buttafoghi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1076613_1_grid.jpg)
Kalaallit Nunaat 10-10
Antoine Buttafoghi
Photography - 90 x 60 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 inch
€1,200
![Print, UK & Ireland White, Yanko Tihov](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/891495_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Shopping Heads 5, Ester Partegàs](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/792300_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Shopping Heads 4, Ester Partegàs](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/792294_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Shopping Heads 3, Ester Partegàs](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/792285_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Shopping Heads 2, Ester Partegàs](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/792276_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Winter Robin I, Bogdan Boev](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/722250_1_grid.jpg)
Winter Robin I
Bogdan Boev
Photography - 60 x 90 x 0.2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.1 inch
€330 €297
![Photography, Winter Robin II, Bogdan Boev](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/722244_1_grid.jpg)
Winter Robin II
Bogdan Boev
Photography - 60 x 90 x 0.2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.1 inch
€330
![Photography, Ballerina IV, Tanguy Mendrisse](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/696831_1_grid.jpg)
Ballerina IV
Tanguy Mendrisse
Photography - 50 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0 inch
€195
![Print, Cairn 6, Gérard Titus-Carmel](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/401551_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Cairn 9, Gérard Titus-Carmel](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/401548_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Cairn 10, Gérard Titus-Carmel](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/401542_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Cairn 4, Gérard Titus-Carmel](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/401539_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, PJ5, Joan Hernández Pijuan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/349789_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Heather (3), Shahi Dayekh](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2178586_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Abstraction #3, Carlos Arriagada](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2178497_1_grid.jpg)
Abstraction #3
Carlos Arriagada
Photography - 50 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0 inch
€1,250
![Photography, Abstraction #2, Carlos Arriagada](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2178496_1_grid.jpg)
Abstraction #2
Carlos Arriagada
Photography - 50 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0 inch
€1,400
![Painting, I Brought You the Blessing of Love, Delyafruz Bagirova](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2175864_1_grid.jpg)
I Brought You the Blessing of Love
Delyafruz Bagirova
Painting - 75 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 29.5 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€2,100
![Painting, Sans Titre, Meteo Meteo](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2173960_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Kiliney Beach - Ireland, Marko Fenske](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2170636_1_grid.jpg)
Kiliney Beach - Ireland
Marko Fenske
Painting - 38.1 x 48.3 x 0.5 cm Painting - 15 x 19 x 0.2 inch
€893
![Painting, Hummingbird, Lauren Acton](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2167698_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Hi, Let's be curious,, Bianca Caloi di Grassi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2165915_1_grid.jpg)
Hi, Let's be curious,
Bianca Caloi di Grassi
Painting - 41 x 41 x 3 cm Painting - 16.1 x 16.1 x 1.2 inch
€2,300
![Painting, Discover, Bianca Caloi di Grassi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2165914_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Hazard, Rémy Demestre](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2160836_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Bonne bouille X, Véronique Ball](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2150250_1_grid.jpg)
Bonne bouille X
Véronique Ball
Sculpture - 29 x 15.5 x 15.5 cm Sculpture - 11.4 x 6.1 x 6.1 inch
€450
![Sculpture, Bonne bouille VIII, Véronique Ball](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2148974_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Sans titre, Meteo Meteo](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2147142_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Fly, Narine Vardanyan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2138109_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Shadows : Sahara, Udo Roosen](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2131225_1_grid.jpg)
Shadows : Sahara
Udo Roosen
Photography - 80 x 60 x 1 cm Photography - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
€2,000
![Painting, Unveiling illusions, Maria Esmar](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2095542_1_grid.jpg)
Unveiling illusions
Maria Esmar
Painting - 140 x 220 x 0.2 cm Painting - 55.1 x 86.6 x 0.1 inch
€6,400
![Photography, I am free to imprison myself - II, Idan Wizen](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2006559_1_grid.jpg)
I am free to imprison myself - II
Idan Wizen
Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0 inch
€450
![Sculpture, Lièvre fleuri, Véronique Dominici](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2005539_1_grid.jpg)
Lièvre fleuri
Véronique Dominici
Sculpture - 34 x 36 x 20 cm Sculpture - 13.4 x 14.2 x 7.9 inch
€1,200
![Painting, White Interior, Agne Kulbyte](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1916469_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, On the Balcony, Agne Kulbyte](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1916454_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Œuvre par André Ferrand, André Ferrand](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1886535_1_grid.jpg)
Œuvre par André Ferrand
André Ferrand
Painting - 123 x 94 x 1 cm Painting - 48.4 x 37 x 0.4 inch
€1,200
![Painting, Rose, Nina Lanner](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1807494_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Tre cavalli in corsa, Gianfranco Migliozzi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/179509_1_grid.jpg)
Tre cavalli in corsa
Gianfranco Migliozzi
Painting - 100 x 120 x 15 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 5.9 inch
€2,500
![Painting, Sans titre, Hervé Le Nagard](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1780965_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Abstract Composition, Mario Padovan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1696719_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Abstract composition, Mario Padovan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1689585_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Amazone, André Ferrand](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1679232_1_grid.jpg)
Amazone
André Ferrand
Fine Art Drawings - 64 x 51 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.2 x 20.1 x 0.4 inch
€690
![Print, Plethora, Pedro Soares Filipe](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1606740_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Encre diluée 1, André Ferrand](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1602846_1_grid.jpg)
Encre diluée 1
André Ferrand
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 51 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 20.1 inch
€900
![Fine Art Drawings, Graphite 1, André Ferrand](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1602828_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Untitled III, Ricardo Carbonell](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1589502_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Giacomo, Marco Fariello](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1578999_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Terre usée, Tchif Tchiakpe](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1557444_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Motives Of Abkhazia, Tako Chanchaleishvili](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1548000_1_grid.jpg)
Motives Of Abkhazia
Tako Chanchaleishvili
Fine Art Drawings - 26 x 35 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10.2 x 13.8 x 0 inch
€550
![Print, Mountain, G.W. Bot](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1547832_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Abstract Composition, Plinio Mesciulam](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1526175_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, El ladrón de manzanas, Iñigo Navarro](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1449519_1_grid.jpg)
El ladrón de manzanas
Iñigo Navarro
Painting - 46 x 38 x 2 cm Painting - 18.1 x 15 x 0.8 inch
€1,500
![Painting, Marianne, Loup Y-Es-Tu ?](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1445817_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, No title, Margret Trimborn](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1437264_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Ex Natura II, Diane de Cicco](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1358781_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Migration, Diane de Cicco](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1358769_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Gourmandise glacée, Delphine Hogarth](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1332102_1_grid.jpg)
Gourmandise glacée
Delphine Hogarth
Painting - 60 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
€1,320
![Sculpture, Batte de Baseball Dior, Wally](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1298979_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Le marchand de fleurs, Jean-Pierre Lorand](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1248600_1_grid.jpg)
Le marchand de fleurs
Jean-Pierre Lorand
Painting - 33 x 41 x 2 cm Painting - 13 x 16.1 x 0.8 inch
€1,400
![Painting, Varie Vigvre IV, Jean-Charles Taillandier](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1122267_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Figure, Guelfo Bianchini](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1052037_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Elohim, Dina Goldstein](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/710955_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Migration, Jessica Houston](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/323998_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, The Flaws That Cut Through, Jessica Houston](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/323986_1_grid.jpg)
The Flaws That Cut Through
Jessica Houston
Painting - 152 x 152 x 2 cm Painting - 59.8 x 59.8 x 0.8 inch
€6,209
![Sculpture, Pop Cola Green, Alessandro Padovan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2178026_1_grid.jpg)
Pop Cola Green
Alessandro Padovan
Sculpture - 30 x 30 x 6 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 11.8 x 2.4 inch
€500
![Sculpture, Kaws, Alessandro Padovan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2174663_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Beautiful Hell, Lukasz Olek](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2173797_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Fragment de la nature de la forêt Vosgienne - série éclatés I, Marie-T Bloemen](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2160279_1_grid.jpg)
Fragment de la nature de la forêt Vosgienne - série éclatés I
Marie-T Bloemen
Painting - 18 x 18 x 0.1 cm Painting - 7.1 x 7.1 x 0 inch
€190
![Painting, Fragment de la nature de la forêt Vosgienne - série éclatés V, Marie-T Bloemen](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2160278_1_grid.jpg)
Fragment de la nature de la forêt Vosgienne - série éclatés V
Marie-T Bloemen
Painting - 18 x 18 x 0.1 cm Painting - 7.1 x 7.1 x 0 inch
€190
![Painting, Fragment de la nature de la forêt Vosgienne - série éclatés II, Marie-T Bloemen](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2160277_1_grid.jpg)
Fragment de la nature de la forêt Vosgienne - série éclatés II
Marie-T Bloemen
Painting - 18 x 18 x 0.1 cm Painting - 7.1 x 7.1 x 0 inch
€190
![Painting, Fragment de la nature de la forêt Vosgienne - série éclatés III, Marie-T Bloemen](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2160272_1_grid.jpg)
Fragment de la nature de la forêt Vosgienne - série éclatés III
Marie-T Bloemen
Painting - 18 x 18 x 0.1 cm Painting - 7.1 x 7.1 x 0 inch
€190
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!