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![Painting, Ground Patterns 1, L'Atlas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1455213_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Le livre des livres, Raoul Ubac](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1228608_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Blue ritournelle, MariBen](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1051938_1_grid.jpg)
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![Painting, Brigitte Bardot "Kitchen", Peter Donkersloot](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2182305_1_grid.jpg)
Brigitte Bardot "Kitchen"
Peter Donkersloot
Painting - 150 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 59.1 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$9,503
![Painting, Starry sky black and white abstraction dropping Pop Art, Nataliia Krykun](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2179946_1_grid.jpg)
Starry sky black and white abstraction dropping Pop Art
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 40 x 30 x 4 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 1.6 inch
$883
![Painting, Masquerade of emotions, Aram Sevoyan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2177582_1_grid.jpg)
Masquerade of emotions
Aram Sevoyan
Painting - 90 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,000
![Painting, Seems Heavy, There's Help, Kpe Innocent](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2176104_1_grid.jpg)
Seems Heavy, There's Help
Kpe Innocent
Painting - 100 x 100 x 5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 2 inch
$6,708
![Design, Futura, Futura 2000](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2174875_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Series Alpine Skiing, Snowboarding, winter mountains white 3D plaster, Nataliia Krykun](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2166050_1_grid.jpg)
Series Alpine Skiing, Snowboarding, winter mountains white 3D plaster
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,118
![Fine Art Drawings, K20124, Harald Kröner](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2162930_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, K1993, Harald Kröner](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2162929_1_grid.jpg)
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![Painting, Winter white mountain landscape, Nataliia Krykun](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2145621_1_grid.jpg)
Winter white mountain landscape
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$671
![Painting, Untitled 2302, Fieroza Doorsen](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2138063_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, MOD 4, Yannis Kounellis](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/187564_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, MOD 2, Yannis Kounellis](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/187561_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Desert signe LV (SG246), Sylvie Guyomard](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1781508_1_grid.jpg)
Desert signe LV (SG246)
Sylvie Guyomard
Sculpture - 40 x 50 x 5 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 19.7 x 2 inch
$548
![Sculpture, Desert signe LIII (SG244), Sylvie Guyomard](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1781496_1_grid.jpg)
Desert signe LIII (SG244)
Sylvie Guyomard
Sculpture - 50 x 40 x 5 cm Sculpture - 19.7 x 15.7 x 2 inch
$436
![Painting, Niño frente al espejo 2, Alejandro Toscano](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1488564_1_grid.jpg)
Niño frente al espejo 2
Alejandro Toscano
Painting - 70 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$2,694
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![Fine Art Drawings, Abstraction, Moon JANG CHULL](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1197096_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, The Swan Lake of Love, Yasna Godovanik](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2177001_1_grid.jpg)
The Swan Lake of Love
Yasna Godovanik
Painting - 100 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,398
![Fine Art Drawings, Étude de la sculpture "Nzuri", Aude Herlédan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2175615_1_grid.jpg)
Étude de la sculpture "Nzuri"
Aude Herlédan
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 40 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
$6,708
![Design, Rond dans l'eau, Seth](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2175307_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Résonance, Aude Herlédan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2158763_1_grid.jpg)
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![Photography, Poolside Chic, Slim Aarons](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2142911_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Poolside social, Slim Aarons](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2142909_1_grid.jpg)
Poolside social
Slim Aarons
Photography - 41 x 51 x 0.01 cm Photography - 16.1 x 20.1 x 0 inch
$2,180
![Photography, A poolside story, Slim Aarons](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2142908_1_grid.jpg)
A poolside story
Slim Aarons
Photography - 41 x 51 x 0.01 cm Photography - 16.1 x 20.1 x 0 inch
$2,180
![Photography, Poolside chat, Slim Aarons](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2142906_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Nelda and friends, Slim Aarons](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2142905_1_grid.jpg)
Nelda and friends
Slim Aarons
Photography - 51 x 41 x 0.01 cm Photography - 20.1 x 16.1 x 0 inch
$2,180
![Photography, Poolside gathering, Slim Aarons](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2142904_1_grid.jpg)
Poolside gathering
Slim Aarons
Photography - 41 x 51 x 0.01 cm Photography - 16.1 x 20.1 x 0 inch
$2,180
![Photography, Helen & Nelda by the Pool, Slim Aarons](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2142903_1_grid.jpg)
Helen & Nelda by the Pool
Slim Aarons
Photography - 41 x 31 x 0.01 cm Photography - 16.1 x 12.2 x 0 inch
$1,845
![Photography, Poolside dreams, Slim Aarons](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2142901_1_grid.jpg)
Poolside dreams
Slim Aarons
Photography - 31 x 41 x 0.01 cm Photography - 12.2 x 16.1 x 0 inch
$1,845
![Photography, Poolside host, Slim Aarons](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2142900_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Nelda's pool, Slim Aarons](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2142899_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Chalet Costi, Slim Aarons](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2142448_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Party on the steps, Slim Aarons](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2142446_1_grid.jpg)
Party on the steps
Slim Aarons
Photography - 41 x 30 x 0.01 cm Photography - 16.1 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$1,845
![Painting, Concept spiral, Piero Cipolat](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2140556_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Subsidence, Antoine Josse](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2137844_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, To another land IV, Aude Herlédan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2137673_1_grid.jpg)
To another land IV
Aude Herlédan
Painting - 114 x 87 x 2 cm Painting - 44.9 x 34.3 x 0.8 inch
$20,124
![Painting, Lala Wants to Stay Warm, but..., Brian Nash](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2038308_1_grid.jpg)
Lala Wants to Stay Warm, but...
Brian Nash
Painting - 61 x 61 x 0.8 cm Painting - 24 x 24 x 0.3 inch
$1,300
![Painting, Voyage au bout de la nuit (1), Mathilde de Bellecombe](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1966461_1_grid.jpg)
Voyage au bout de la nuit (1)
Mathilde de Bellecombe
Painting - 70 x 59 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 23.2 x 0.8 inch
$1,314
![Painting, Filou, Martine Fauve Dechavanne](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1720800_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Cimes et racines / Anémone-Gentiana A, Akira Inumaru](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1463532_1_grid.jpg)
Cimes et racines / Anémone-Gentiana A
Akira Inumaru
Painting - 130 x 97 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 38.2 x 0.8 inch
$3,130
![Painting, Window into Ocean, Lilly Lillà](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1417377_1_grid.jpg)
Window into Ocean
Lilly Lillà
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.4 inch
$3,410
![Sculpture, Zébré, Arsen](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1412733_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Skiers at Gstaad, Slim Aarons](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1365807_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Lech Ice Bar, Slim Aarons](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1364901_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Xiprers en el paisatge, Joan Hernández Pijuan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/46922_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Human preservation (5), Julien Delagrange](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2187268_1_grid.jpg)
Human preservation (5)
Julien Delagrange
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 30 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$2,012
![Painting, The shell (after marcel broodthaers) forbidden collage (11), Julien Delagrange](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2187263_1_grid.jpg)
The shell (after marcel broodthaers) forbidden collage (11)
Julien Delagrange
Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$2,012
![Sculpture, Penna, Scott Troxel](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2173611_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, False Idol II, Scott Troxel](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2172468_1_grid.jpg)
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![Painting, Fruits d'été, Yrak](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2152154_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Mickey loves Dom Pérignon soup, Patrick Cornée](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2135499_1_grid.jpg)
Mickey loves Dom Pérignon soup
Patrick Cornée
Painting - 40 x 40 x 3 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 1.2 inch
$1,006
![Painting, Super Mario pop Dior, négatif, Patrick Cornée](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2135498_1_grid.jpg)
Super Mario pop Dior, négatif
Patrick Cornée
Painting - 30 x 30 x 3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 1.2 inch
$894
![Painting, Le détour, Jean-Baptiste Dumont](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2123217_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Sunday, Scott Troxel](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2100486_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Spomenick, Scott Troxel](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2100444_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Dusty Pink, Scott Troxel](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2099967_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Bourgeois Big Top, Scott Troxel](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2099949_1_grid.jpg)
Bourgeois Big Top
Scott Troxel
Sculpture - 55.9 x 34.3 x 8.3 cm Sculpture - 22 x 13.5 x 3.25 inch
$1,565
![Painting, Dark Vador is a Jack Daniel's fan, Patrick Cornée](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2087667_1_grid.jpg)
Dark Vador is a Jack Daniel's fan
Patrick Cornée
Painting - 40 x 40 x 3 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 1.2 inch
$1,006
![Painting, Ups and downs, Ventzislav Dikov](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1936809_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Clouds and pareidolia, Isabelle Fournet](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1780284_1_grid.jpg)
Clouds and pareidolia
Isabelle Fournet
Painting - 90 x 270 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 106.3 x 0.8 inch
$4,360
![Painting, Sunny home, Gago Chtchyan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1742706_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, The Queen Elizabeth II, Patrick Cornée](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1620405_1_grid.jpg)
The Queen Elizabeth II
Patrick Cornée
Painting - 50 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$1,342
![Print, Le Legacy from Historia de Don Quichotte de la Mancha, Salvador Dali](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1368357_1_grid.jpg)
Le Legacy from Historia de Don Quichotte de la Mancha
Salvador Dali
Print - 75.9 x 56.2 cm Print - 29.88 x 22.13 inch
$3,000
![Print, Marilyn, Erró](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1158444_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, White Fields, Kamen Startchev](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/996879_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Abstract 2415, Alex Senchenko](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2183215_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Abstract 2412, Alex Senchenko](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2181925_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Untitled, Lila Maroun Frem](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2174203_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Vue de ma fenetre, Antoinette](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2174161_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Sans Titre, Meteo Meteo](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2173793_1_grid.jpg)
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![Painting, Cheveux de comète, Anne-Marie Mary](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2173379_1_grid.jpg)
Cheveux de comète
Anne-Marie Mary
Painting - 90 x 90 x 2.5 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 1 inch
$2,773
![Painting, Abstract R 2407, Alex Senchenko](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2160595_1_grid.jpg)
Abstract R 2407
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 140 x 200 x 0.1 cm Painting - 55.1 x 78.7 x 0 inch
$2,907 $2,035
![Painting, Tone, Sven](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2152473_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Mémoire du Temps 46, Anne-Marie Mary](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2136054_1_grid.jpg)
Mémoire du Temps 46
Anne-Marie Mary
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,415
![Painting, Léopard, C215](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2131357_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Abstract 2394, Alex Senchenko](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2097675_1_grid.jpg)
Abstract 2394
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 80 x 210 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 82.7 x 1.6 inch
$2,577 $1,804
![Painting, Mémoire du temps n° 41 : Archéologie du temps, Anne-Marie Mary](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2091768_1_grid.jpg)
Mémoire du temps n° 41 : Archéologie du temps
Anne-Marie Mary
Painting - 146 x 114 x 3.5 cm Painting - 57.5 x 44.9 x 1.4 inch
$5,579
![Painting, Palimpeste 1, Anne-Marie Mary](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2091765_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Mémoire du temps n° 42, Anne-Marie Mary](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2091714_1_grid.jpg)
Mémoire du temps n° 42
Anne-Marie Mary
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1 inch
$4,002
![Painting, Abstract 2392, Alex Senchenko](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2084856_1_grid.jpg)
Abstract 2392
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 80 x 210 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 82.7 x 1.6 inch
$2,577 $1,804
![Painting, Two visitors (Bowie series), Carrie Graber](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2038503_1_grid.jpg)
Two visitors (Bowie series)
Carrie Graber
Painting - 49.3 x 71.1 x 3.8 cm Painting - 19.4 x 28 x 1.5 inch
$4,975
![Painting, Mémoire oubliée N°12, Anne-Marie Mary](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1925766_1_grid.jpg)
Mémoire oubliée N°12
Anne-Marie Mary
Painting - 120 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$4,461
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!