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![Painting, Macba2, Katalin Soós](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1595631_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Zest, Matthieu Ribo](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1572780_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Funambule, Victor Lorenzi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1559397_1_grid.jpg)
![Design, Ella decorative box, Reda Amalou](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1535793_1_grid.jpg)
![Design, Lampe Pissenlit, Guillaume Piéchaud](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1479885_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Intimacy, Shannon Nowak](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1354986_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Long day's journey into tomorrow, Elena Raceala](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1327932_1_grid.jpg)
Long day's journey into tomorrow
Elena Raceala
Photography - 91.4 x 61 cm Photography - 36 x 24 inch
€1,200
![Photography, Le rêveur - série oiseaux, Henry Ausloos](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1292673_1_grid.jpg)
Le rêveur - série oiseaux
Henry Ausloos
Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0 inch
€720
![Painting, Ballerina meccanica, Alexander Daniloff](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1227636_1_grid.jpg)
Ballerina meccanica
Alexander Daniloff
Painting - 35 x 12 x 0.3 cm Painting - 13.8 x 4.7 x 0.1 inch
€169
![Painting, Montañas, Charo Velasco](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1227546_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Street in Paris 1, Shengqi Tang](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1182732_1_grid.jpg)
Street in Paris 1
Shengqi Tang
Photography - 30 x 20 x 1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 7.9 x 0.4 inch
€650
![Photography, Gaze in lines, Shengqi Tang](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1182459_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Backstage II, Shengqi Tang](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1182456_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Backstage I, Shengqi Tang](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1182390_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Chinese Interior #19, Robert van der Hilst](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1171734_1_grid.jpg)
Chinese Interior #19
Robert van der Hilst
Photography - 42 x 49 cm Photography - 16.5 x 19.3 inch
€1,800
![Painting, La petite robe noire, Tatjana Sonjov](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1145469_1_grid.jpg)
La petite robe noire
Tatjana Sonjov
Painting - 65 x 50 x 0.2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
€590
![Painting, Glowing Breakfast in Tillett's Garden, Alexandre Idier](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1087632_1_grid.jpg)
Glowing Breakfast in Tillett's Garden
Alexandre Idier
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 5.1 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 2 inch
€4,900
![Fine Art Drawings, Sketch 3, Saverio Filioli Uranio](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/844029_1_grid.jpg)
Sketch 3
Saverio Filioli Uranio
Fine Art Drawings - 33 x 24 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 13 x 9.4 x 0 inch
€80
![Painting, Je te vois pas, Ghislaine Ferreira](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/537361_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Free Play 06 (Vulnerable), Hengki Koentjoro](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/509504_1_grid.jpg)
Free Play 06 (Vulnerable)
Hengki Koentjoro
Photography - 43 x 43 x 0.02 cm Photography - 16.9 x 16.9 x 0 inch
€950
![Photography, Les égarés, Clara Cena](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/434730_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Reflets, Pascale Jacquemond-Collet](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/391724_1_grid.jpg)
Reflets
Pascale Jacquemond-Collet
Painting - 130 x 195 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 76.8 x 0.8 inch
€2,500
![Painting, Chiaruscoro of still life, Lisbeth Buonanno](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2182116_1_grid.jpg)
Chiaruscoro of still life
Lisbeth Buonanno
Painting - 40 x 50 x 1.8 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.7 inch
€1,200 €1,080
![Painting, Téva C, Tom Geleb](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2173621_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Oscar, Olha Stepanian](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2171154_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Fashion, Olha Stepanian](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2165325_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Les Noyers de l’Altenburg, Vladimir Velickovic](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2151152_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Snoopy, Oli Art](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2148588_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Ryla - Portrait animaux sauvages - Tigre blanc, Ezya](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2148138_1_grid.jpg)
Ryla - Portrait animaux sauvages - Tigre blanc
Ezya
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€500
![Sculpture, Luxury Art Toffee - Leather look - White, Ad Van Hassel](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2139741_1_grid.jpg)
Luxury Art Toffee - Leather look - White
Ad Van Hassel
Sculpture - 33 x 10 x 10 cm Sculpture - 13 x 3.9 x 3.9 inch
€225
![Painting, Noun, Hamed Abdalla](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2139289_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Still life with pomegrantes and dove, Tamar Nazaryan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2129707_1_grid.jpg)
Still life with pomegrantes and dove
Tamar Nazaryan
Painting - 40 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€582
![Sculpture, Homage to Jackson Pollock (white), Ad Van Hassel](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2122662_1_grid.jpg)
Homage to Jackson Pollock (white)
Ad Van Hassel
Sculpture - 33 x 10 x 10 cm Sculpture - 13 x 3.9 x 3.9 inch
€225
![Painting, Peonies, Natalia Yampolskaya](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2119392_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Love (large), Ad Van Hassel](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2104344_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Homage to Lichtenstein (Black), Ad Van Hassel](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2100294_1_grid.jpg)
Homage to Lichtenstein (Black)
Ad Van Hassel
Sculpture - 33 x 10 x 10 cm Sculpture - 13 x 3.9 x 3.9 inch
€225
![Sculpture, Homage to Andy Warhol / Fruity PopArt, Ad Van Hassel](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2100282_1_grid.jpg)
Homage to Andy Warhol / Fruity PopArt
Ad Van Hassel
Sculpture - 33 x 10 x 10 cm Sculpture - 13 x 3.9 x 3.9 inch
€225
![Painting, Elles, Ariane Fourquier](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2033817_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Pourtant, Katia Villard](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1909593_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Guia ups, Rodrigo Spinel](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1870347_1_grid.jpg)
Guia ups
Rodrigo Spinel
Fine Art Drawings - 31.8 x 24.9 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12.5 x 9.8 x 0.1 inch
€1,747
![Fine Art Drawings, Invasion martienne, André Robillard](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1870314_1_grid.jpg)
Invasion martienne
André Robillard
Fine Art Drawings - 53 x 78 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 20.9 x 30.7 x 0.4 inch
€2,500
![Sculpture, David Michelangelo, Spaco](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1803339_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Miss tic BomB, Spaco](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1796733_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Dancing girl, Luo Li Rong](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1778808_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Edouard, Pascha Pascha](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1730637_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, The Family Scheme, Luigi Bompard](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1689945_1_grid.jpg)
The Family Scheme
Luigi Bompard
Fine Art Drawings - 25.5 x 20 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10 x 7.9 x 0.1 inch
€560
![Painting, A canter a bailar, Marcello Cid Saint Jean](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1591731_1_grid.jpg)
A canter a bailar
Marcello Cid Saint Jean
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€480
![Painting, Urbain et rêveur, AlexZ](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1582809_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Barco Violeta III, Sergio Bazan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1557627_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Barco Violeta I, Sergio Bazan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1556898_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Skogsbadarna lll, Lotta Hellström](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1520337_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, The Forest Bathers ll, Lotta Hellström](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1520334_1_grid.jpg)
The Forest Bathers ll
Lotta Hellström
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€1,200
![Painting, Interrogation écrite, Thomas Wolfgang Baenke](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1513575_1_grid.jpg)
Interrogation écrite
Thomas Wolfgang Baenke
Painting - 224 x 168 x 0.5 cm Painting - 88.2 x 66.1 x 0.2 inch
€6,000
![Painting, Romântica, Valentim Sousa](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1367292_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, The world, Bettino Craxi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1351107_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Fleurs blanches, Claude Gean](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1341216_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Storm black & grey, Jug](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/959970_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Storm, Jug](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/959961_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, 1980 KIM HAN MMCA Museum Collection Geometrical Abstraction Verticales Verticals, Kim HAN](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/959076_1_grid.jpg)
1980 KIM HAN MMCA Museum Collection Geometrical Abstraction Verticales Verticals
Kim HAN
Painting - 57 x 76.5 x 0.3 cm Painting - 22.4 x 30.1 x 0.1 inch
€9,500
![Painting, 1980 KIM HAN MMCA Museum Collection Geometrical Abstraction Games of Squares Quadrillage, Kim HAN](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/959067_1_grid.jpg)
1980 KIM HAN MMCA Museum Collection Geometrical Abstraction Games of Squares Quadrillage
Kim HAN
Painting - 76.5 x 56.5 x 0.3 cm Painting - 30.1 x 22.2 x 0.1 inch
€9,500
![Fine Art Drawings, Les bergers d'Arcadie, Frank Girard](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/903399_1_grid.jpg)
Les bergers d'Arcadie
Frank Girard
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
€1,660
![Photography, Warners Cinema, Kurt Hurton](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/885306_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Avió amb guixat negre, Josep Riera i Arago](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/716781_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Null Uhr, Kurt Buchwald](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/445659_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, La espera, Marta Lafuente](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/429009_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Ear Cast, Lyubena Fox](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/414766_1_grid.jpg)
Ear Cast
Lyubena Fox
Fine Art Drawings - 45 x 35 x 2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 17.7 x 13.8 x 0.8 inch
€800
![Photography, Sourire Omar, Emmanuelle Barbaras](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/319870_1_grid.jpg)
Sourire Omar
Emmanuelle Barbaras
Photography - 28 x 43 x 0.2 cm Photography - 11 x 16.9 x 0.1 inch
€700
![Photography, Bouche homme, Emmanuelle Barbaras](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/319864_1_grid.jpg)
Bouche homme
Emmanuelle Barbaras
Photography - 40 x 50 x 1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
€700
![Photography, Bouche femme, Emmanuelle Barbaras](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/319861_1_grid.jpg)
Bouche femme
Emmanuelle Barbaras
Photography - 40 x 50 x 1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
€700
![Painting, Sans titre, Eugenia Jaeger](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/267367_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, We are all martyrs (3) (after pina bausch) forbidden collage (12), Julien Delagrange](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2187528_1_grid.jpg)
We are all martyrs (3) (after pina bausch) forbidden collage (12)
Julien Delagrange
Painting - 150 x 135 x 0.1 cm Painting - 59.1 x 53.1 x 0 inch
€6,240
![Painting, Sunset Over the Kingdom, Grégoire Devin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2179136_1_grid.jpg)
Sunset Over the Kingdom
Grégoire Devin
Painting - 180.3 x 180.3 x 5.1 cm Painting - 71 x 71 x 2 inch
€16,887
![Painting, Ink 806, François Benoit-Lison](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2173639_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, The Dream of Daisies, Kirill Postovit](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2171817_1_grid.jpg)
The Dream of Daisies
Kirill Postovit
Fine Art Drawings - 42 x 30 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 11.8 x 0 inch
€300
![Painting, Lost Tango, Laurent Proneur](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2167776_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Self portrait #21, Cody Choi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/216436_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Self portrait #22, Cody Choi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/216433_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Self portrait #24, Cody Choi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/216415_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Frutos del bosque, Milagros Elorz](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2158511_1_grid.jpg)
Frutos del bosque
Milagros Elorz
Painting - 100 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
€1,800
![Painting, The eye of God, Eugene Gorbachenko](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2157183_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Ladera II, Orlando Alandia](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2156338_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, La próxima carta, Claudia Guerrini](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2155459_1_grid.jpg)
La próxima carta
Claudia Guerrini
Painting - 65 x 50 x 0.01 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
€1,900
![Painting, Cobalt, Ramón Surinyac](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2154027_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Ohne Titel / without title, Gerd Kanz](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2153009_1_grid.jpg)
Ohne Titel / without title
Gerd Kanz
Sculpture - 20 x 20 x 4 cm Sculpture - 7.9 x 7.9 x 1.6 inch
€900
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![Print, Chef Albert, Guy Buffet](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2077632_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Jumelles II, Cécile Duchêne-Malissin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1929267_1_grid.jpg)
Jumelles II
Cécile Duchêne-Malissin
Painting - 120 x 160 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 63 x 1.6 inch
€5,180
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!