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![Print, Nosotros, Milan Sanka](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1248852_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Grande Motte Seagulls 2V, Clemente Vergara](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1222524_1_grid.jpg)
Grande Motte Seagulls 2V
Clemente Vergara
Photography - 70 x 56 cm Photography - 27.6 x 22 inch
€450
![Photography, Grande Motte Seagulls V, Clemente Vergara](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1222497_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Grande Motte Seagulls H, Clemente Vergara](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1222491_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Spaventapasseri, Alexander Daniloff](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1171086_1_grid.jpg)
Spaventapasseri
Alexander Daniloff
Painting - 20 x 18 x 0.3 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.1 x 0.1 inch
€150 €128
![Painting, Donkey thorn, Simeon Panayotov](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1146564_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Saut 1, Agathe Wagner](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/105205_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, L'Attrape rêve 2, Eric Beauplace](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1036968_1_grid.jpg)
L'Attrape rêve 2
Eric Beauplace
Sculpture - 65 x 95 x 20 cm Sculpture - 25.6 x 37.4 x 7.9 inch
€7,500
![Sculpture, L'Attrape rêve 1, Eric Beauplace](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1036848_1_grid.jpg)
L'Attrape rêve 1
Eric Beauplace
Sculpture - 53 x 103 x 20 cm Sculpture - 20.9 x 40.6 x 7.9 inch
€7,500
![Painting, Scattered Floes, Nicholas Kriefall](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1034778_1_grid.jpg)
Scattered Floes
Nicholas Kriefall
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 5.1 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 2 inch
€2,814
![Painting, Quantas formas tens para contar o tempo 1, Paulo Canilhas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1017093_1_grid.jpg)
Quantas formas tens para contar o tempo 1
Paulo Canilhas
Painting - 93 x 115 x 4 cm Painting - 36.6 x 45.3 x 1.6 inch
€2,600
![Print, Wait for me En, Sophie Calle](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/227794_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, I Am Beautiful - Swan - Lake, Trayko Popov](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2189745_1_grid.jpg)
I Am Beautiful - Swan - Lake
Trayko Popov
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€1,800
![Painting, Metaphysical weight (2) (after pina bausch) forbidden collage (8), Julien Delagrange](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2187529_1_grid.jpg)
Metaphysical weight (2) (after pina bausch) forbidden collage (8)
Julien Delagrange
Painting - 180 x 120 x 0.1 cm Painting - 70.9 x 47.2 x 0 inch
€6,600
![Painting, Contemporary portrait "Photo for Memory", Nataliya Bagatskaya](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2178693_1_grid.jpg)
Contemporary portrait "Photo for Memory"
Nataliya Bagatskaya
Painting - 80 x 55 x 1.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 21.7 x 0.6 inch
€1,300
![Painting, Constructing Dawn, Delphine Hogarth](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2166227_1_grid.jpg)
Constructing Dawn
Delphine Hogarth
Painting - 93 x 162 x 4 cm Painting - 36.6 x 63.8 x 1.6 inch
€4,171
![Fine Art Drawings, Dreary School Day, Christian Frederiksen](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2158327_1_grid.jpg)
Dreary School Day
Christian Frederiksen
Fine Art Drawings - 10 x 25 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 3.9 x 9.8 x 0 inch
€700
![Painting, Hypothèse, Thomas Vinas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2147029_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Charming II, Gor Avetisyan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2146821_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Coqueiros de Klee, José Ignacio Suarez Solis](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2138188_1_grid.jpg)
Coqueiros de Klee
José Ignacio Suarez Solis
Painting - 140 x 149.9 x 0.3 cm Painting - 55.1 x 59 x 0.1 inch
€4,075
![Painting, Bambú de noite, José Ignacio Suarez Solis](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2138172_1_grid.jpg)
Bambú de noite
José Ignacio Suarez Solis
Painting - 110 x 149.9 x 0.3 cm Painting - 43.3 x 59 x 0.1 inch
€3,202
![Painting, Mata mamey século XV, José Ignacio Suarez Solis](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2136163_1_grid.jpg)
Mata mamey século XV
José Ignacio Suarez Solis
Painting - 110 x 179.8 x 0.3 cm Painting - 43.3 x 70.8 x 0.1 inch
€3,843
![Painting, La vitre, Jean-Yves Fremaux](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2135844_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Les amies, Nathalie Montel](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2134981_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Contemporary portrait "At Night", Nataliya Bagatskaya](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2133601_1_grid.jpg)
Contemporary portrait "At Night"
Nataliya Bagatskaya
Painting - 80 x 60 x 1.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.6 inch
€1,300
![Painting, L'orage II, Christine Desplanque](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2121936_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Afternoon rehearsal, Douglas Hofmann](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2076762_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Never to much, Haydee Torres](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2059737_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Karl Largerfield soirée Kenzo, Arnaud Baumann](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1972242_1_grid.jpg)
Karl Largerfield soirée Kenzo
Arnaud Baumann
Photography - 16 x 24 x 0.1 cm Photography - 6.3 x 9.4 x 0 inch
€300
![Painting, What flows, grows, Judith Christine Riemer](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1971708_1_grid.jpg)
What flows, grows
Judith Christine Riemer
Painting - 70 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€2,300
![Painting, Seen from above, Jacqueline Perez Saleh](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1916958_1_grid.jpg)
Seen from above
Jacqueline Perez Saleh
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€3,910
![Painting, Unexpected fish, Jacqueline Perez Saleh](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1916949_1_grid.jpg)
Unexpected fish
Jacqueline Perez Saleh
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€2,402
![Painting, Sea of thieve, Jacqueline Perez Saleh](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1916940_1_grid.jpg)
Sea of thieve
Jacqueline Perez Saleh
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€3,317
![Painting, Buste de Minotaure, Fabien Hemard](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1910223_1_grid.jpg)
Buste de Minotaure
Fabien Hemard
Painting - 130 x 81 x 4 cm Painting - 51.2 x 31.9 x 1.6 inch
€3,700
![Fine Art Drawings, De force et de dentelle, Ledentelier](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1905777_1_grid.jpg)
De force et de dentelle
Ledentelier
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 70 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch
€1,800
![Painting, Amour II, Xiaoyang Galas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1880643_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Plis forts, plis faibles, Silvère Jarrosson](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1870515_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Sizzle, Valerie Vescovi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1842897_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Blurry minds #1, Rani Bruchstein](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1803747_1_grid.jpg)
Blurry minds #1
Rani Bruchstein
Photography - 90 x 60 x 2 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€4,355
![Sculpture, Mickey Magic, Dervis Akdemir](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1796877_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Sweet Dreams, John Clement](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1794570_1_grid.jpg)
Sweet Dreams
John Clement
Sculpture - 29.2 x 29.2 x 1.3 cm Sculpture - 11.5 x 11.5 x 0.5 inch
€3,396
![Sculpture, Slip, John Clement](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1794567_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Untitled, Kim En Joong](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1792215_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Tragedy of common, Marielle Orr](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1776711_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Dansk snestorm, Emma Mikkelsen](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1776027_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Atlanta high museum, Ying Chen](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1730937_1_grid.jpg)
Atlanta high museum
Ying Chen
Photography - 203.2 x 152.4 x 0.3 cm Photography - 80 x 60 x 0.1 inch
€3,881
![Painting, Pommiers en fleurs, André Lac](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1658880_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Hope Bat, Ske](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1641420_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Moët&Chandon, Ske](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1632117_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Soledad del frontera, Katayoon Firouzi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1618584_1_grid.jpg)
Soledad del frontera
Katayoon Firouzi
Painting - 61 x 61 x 1 cm Painting - 24 x 24 x 0.4 inch
€2,184
![Painting, Rhapsodies of Praise I, Katayoon Firouzi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1618344_1_grid.jpg)
Rhapsodies of Praise I
Katayoon Firouzi
Painting - 61 x 61 x 4 cm Painting - 24 x 24 x 1.6 inch
€3,641
![Painting, Number 4, Sergio Bazan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1559220_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Turcata blu, Aldo Mondino](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1518240_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, 27° 42' 26.32'' N, 7° 42' 26.32'' W-15, Paola Dávila](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1482882_1_grid.jpg)
27° 42' 26.32'' N, 7° 42' 26.32'' W-15
Paola Dávila
Photography - 58.4 x 111.8 x 0.3 cm Photography - 23 x 44 x 0.1 inch
€3,493
![Photography, Oaxaca, Paola Dávila](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1482765_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Barques de Pécheurs catalans, André Lac](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1443753_1_grid.jpg)
Barques de Pécheurs catalans
André Lac
Fine Art Drawings - 35 x 52 x 2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 13.8 x 20.5 x 0.8 inch
€640
![Sculpture, Apple china (blue wave), Li Lihong](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1436973_1_grid.jpg)
Apple china (blue wave)
Li Lihong
Sculpture - 45 x 39 x 39 cm Sculpture - 17.7 x 15.4 x 15.4 inch
€18,000
![Painting, Tower Brick Bridge, Pys](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1339770_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Arbres de mar, Coia Ibañez](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1301940_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Línea Bloques, Rodrigo Spinel](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1235481_1_grid.jpg)
Línea Bloques
Rodrigo Spinel
Fine Art Drawings - 19 x 19 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.5 x 7.5 x 0.1 inch
€388
![Fine Art Drawings, Línea Aparejo (Framed), Rodrigo Spinel](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1188207_1_grid.jpg)
Línea Aparejo (Framed)
Rodrigo Spinel
Fine Art Drawings - 19 x 19 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.5 x 7.5 x 0.1 inch
€388
![Painting, Desejo, Cecile Filipe](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1029621_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Ghost Ship, Susan Wolfe Huppman](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1024779_1_grid.jpg)
Ghost Ship
Susan Wolfe Huppman
Painting - 152.4 x 182.9 x 6.4 cm Painting - 60 x 72 x 2.5 inch
€7,569
![Painting, Dark thoughts, Hugo Auler Jr](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1010502_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Untitled, Quim Corominas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1000566_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Another hard day, Ronex Ahimbisibwe](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/959763_1_grid.jpg)
Another hard day
Ronex Ahimbisibwe
Painting - 40 x 60 x 2.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 23.6 x 1 inch
€1,450
![Photography, Enfants qui lisent, Emmanuelle Barbaras](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/314095_1_grid.jpg)
Enfants qui lisent
Emmanuelle Barbaras
Photography - 30 x 40 x 1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
€700
![Photography, Teinturières, Emmanuelle Barbaras](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/314065_1_grid.jpg)
Teinturières
Emmanuelle Barbaras
Photography - 40 x 50 x 1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
€700
![Painting, Partition de printemps, Odette Muller](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2180230_1_grid.jpg)
Partition de printemps
Odette Muller
Painting - 40 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€1,000
![Sculpture, Gala, Virginia Benedicto](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2174138_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Bernard Loiseau, Arnaud Baumann](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2166245_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, La Sainte-Victoire, Sébastien Arcouet](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2162747_1_grid.jpg)
La Sainte-Victoire
Sébastien Arcouet
Painting - 40 x 40 x 1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
€630
![Painting, Huggy Pandy, Paco Roum](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2162396_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, L'envolée, Carlos Acuña](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2154799_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Vivid 21, Orit Fuchs](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2152787_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, L'ami secret, Irina Drozd](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2147222_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Imprints, Milena Mladenova](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2097699_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Deer kingdom, Silvana Ilieva](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2095035_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Combustion 2, Benjamin Carbonne](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2077974_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Combustion, Benjamin Carbonne](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2077971_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Couple se serrent, Yiyan Zhou](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2075091_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Patronus, Elena Sokolova](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2051193_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Spring in Alps, Elena Sokolova](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2050989_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Rules of Fight Club - Handmade sculpture for home decor, Dervis Akdemir](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2012493_1_grid.jpg)
Rules of Fight Club - Handmade sculpture for home decor
Dervis Akdemir
Sculpture - 30 x 18 x 10 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 7.1 x 3.9 inch
€159
![Sculpture, Mai blanc n°916, Sandra Zeenni](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1977891_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Above the Clouds #3, Cody Choi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/195031_1_grid.jpg)
Above the Clouds #3
Cody Choi
Photography - 76.2 x 101.6 x 0.1 cm Photography - 30 x 40 x 0 inch
€804
![Photography, Sillage #4, Cody Choi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/195019_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Neocubistic Study II, Alexander Valchev](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1936353_1_grid.jpg)
Neocubistic Study II
Alexander Valchev
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 20 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 7.9 x 0.1 inch
€320
![Print, Je lève les yeux au ciel, Six four two](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1925310_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Caleton Blanco, Nurdebof](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1870419_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Urban Patterns - 5-panels, Carl McGrady](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1852809_1_grid.jpg)
Urban Patterns - 5-panels
Carl McGrady
Painting - 61 x 165.1 x 2.5 cm Painting - 24 x 65 x 1 inch
€5,337
![Painting, After surf, Elena Sokolova](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1842711_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Selfportrait 16, Christian Dugardeyn](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1800900_1_grid.jpg)
Selfportrait 16
Christian Dugardeyn
Painting - 120 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€2,400
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!