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Still-life Paintings For Sale
Style: Modern
Style: Surrealist
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Still life. 2004, oil on canvas, 20x20 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Antra Ivdra (1966)
The member of Artist association in Latvia (2004), Association Internationale des Arts Plastiques (2008), Association of Creativity, Latvia (2006).
Art education...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
BOOKNOTE 9. From the Beaches series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
BOOKNOTE 9, 2023 by Luigi Christopher Veggetti
From the Beaches series
Oil and acrylic on paper
Size: 24 H x 89 W cm
The beaches of Luigi Christopher Veggetti Kanku represent a pict...
Category
2010s Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic, Archival Paper
BOOKNOTE 7. From the Beaches series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
BOOKNOTE 7, 2023 by Luigi Christopher Veggetti
From the Beaches series
Oil and acrylic on paper
Size: 24 H x 89 W cm
The beaches of Luigi Christopher Veggetti Kanku represent a pict...
Category
2010s Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic, Archival Paper
Modern White Chrysanthemums Still Life by Jaroslav Pavlis
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous modern still-life of white Chyrsanthemums in vase by Jaroslav Pavlis (Czech, 1951-2002), c.1970s. This expressive still-life is bursting with vivid colors and dynamic, expre...
Category
1970s Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Paper
"Abstract Bouquet, Browns #1" Modern Abstract Cubist Floral Still Life Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Modern abstract brown toned Cubist inspired still life painting by Houston, TX artist David Adickes. The work features a central floral arrangement set against a light brown backgrou...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Original Painting Published Fortune Mag Cover 1935 Jewels Jewelry Illustration
Located in New York, NY
Original Painting Published Fortune Mag Cover 1935 Jewels Jewelry Illustration
Antonio Petruccelli (1907 – 1994)
Fortune cover published, Decembe...
Category
1930s American Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Japan Issue Fortune Magazine Cover Proposal Japanese Mid-Century Illustration
Located in New York, NY
Japan Issue Fortune Magazine Cover Proposal Japanese Mid-Century Illustration
Antonio Petruccelli (1907 - 1994)
JAPAN ISSUE
Fortune cover proposal, c. 1936
14 1/4 x 12 inches (sight)
Framed 19 3/4 X 17 3/4 Inches
Gouache on board
Signed lower left
BIOGRAPHY:
Antonio Petruccelli (1907-1994) began his career as a textile designer. He became a freelance illustrator in 1932 after winning several House Beautiful cover illustration contests.
In addition to 24 Fortune magazine covers, four New Yorker covers, several for House Beautiful, Collier’s, and other magazines he did numerous illustrations for Life magazine from the 1930s – 60s.
‘Tony was Mr. Versatility for Fortune. He could do anything, from charts and diagrams to maps, illustrations, covers, and caricatures,’ said Francis Brennan, the former art director for Fortune.
Over the course of his career, Antonio won several important design awards, designing a U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Steel Industry and designing the Bicentennial Medal...
Category
1930s American Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Giving Butterflies - original still life surrealism painting - contemporary art
Located in London, Chelsea
Donald Macdonald’s Giving Butterflies is a whimsical and thought-provoking exploration of lightness, movement, and transformation. The painting presents a stark, charcoal-grey backgr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Butterfly Giver - original still life surrealism painting - contemporary art
Located in London, Chelsea
Donald Macdonald’s The Butterfly Giver is a poetic and symbolic meditation on freedom, transformation, and human connection. Set against a minimalist light background, the compositio...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Modernist Cubist Still Life Abstract Signed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist oil painting. Oil on board, circa 1950. Housed in a vintage frame. Image size, 24L x 18H. Signed.
Category
1950s Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Post Impressionist Oil Painting Still Life with Fruit William Meyerowitz WPA Art
Located in Surfside, FL
William Meyerowitz (1887 - 1981)
Oil painting on canvas
Depicting a still life scene with fruit bowl, bananas, flowers and quilt. Post Impressionist oil painting.
Hand signed low...
Category
1930s American Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Vintage Art Deco Modernist Antelope Animal Still Life Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Experience the timeless allure of vintage Art Deco with our captivating framed oil painting—a Vintage Art Deco Modernist Antelope Animal Still Life. This finely executed oil painting...
Category
1960s Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"NATALIE", surrealist oil painting, nude woman, portrait, classic pose, tattoos
By Tslil Tsemet
Located in Toronto, Ontario
"NATALIE", 2015, is an oil painting on canvas by artist Tslil Tsemet, and measures 47x62". One of a series of portraits by the artist of her friends. "Nat...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Israeli Expressionist Oil Painting Floral Bouquet Signed in Hebrew Miniature
Located in Surfside, FL
signed in Hebrew. this is a charming Judaica painting of a vase with a bouquet of flowers. it is signed Zeiffer or Zaipher. it has an Expressionist quality to it reminiscent of the ...
Category
20th Century Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mid-Century Modern Abstract Acrylic Painting
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Evocative abstract acrylic painting on canvas that explores the relationship between yellow and grey. Painted with acrylic on canvas in 1973 by Bonnie Lewton, titled on the back yell...
Category
20th Century American Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Antique American Modernist Fruit Still Life Kitchen Table Apple Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist still life painting. Oil on canvas, circa 1950. Housed in a period frame. Image size, 31L x 23H.
Category
1940s Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French Surrealist Trompe L'oeil Apples OIl Painting
By Lucien Mathelin
Located in Surfside, FL
size uncludes frame.
Lucien Mathelin, born in 1905 in Binche, A province of Hainaut, in Wallonia, Belgium, and died in 1981 in Paris. French painter. His work was influenced by surrealism andtinged with irony.
Lucien Mathelin was born in a family of artists and has benefited from artistic training since childhood. He made his first oil on canvas at the age of 15 in 1920. In 1924, he exhibited at the Salon d'Automne which he became a member. He did not study plastic arts, but traveled to Morocco (1925-1926) and Greece (1933-1934), where he enriched his palette. In 1937, Mathelin worked for a while for Raoul Dufy to realize the gigantic painting...
Category
20th Century Surrealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Modernist Still Life by renowned Dutch artist Dick Elffers
Located in London, GB
A striking original painting by Dutch artist Dick Elffers, whose work features in the MoMA and Rijksmuseum collections. This piece's composition is incredibly elegant, with a beautif...
Category
1950s Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Hilary Hennes Miller 'The Old Bicycle' Gouache Painting c1940 Modern British Art
Located in London, GB
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Hilary Hennes (née Hilary Miller) (1919-1993)
'The Old Bicycle...
Category
1940s Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Gouache
L'Été (James Ensor, crabs, summer colors, ~32% OFF)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Philip Verhoeven
L'Été (James Ensor, crabs, summer colors)
Acrylic and Marker on Canvas
Year: 2024
Size: 15.75 x 15.75 inches
Signed and titled by hand
COA provided
*Unframed. Could...
Category
2010s Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Permanent Marker
Voyage en Siam (Thailand, temples, elephants, 1920s, ~32% OFF)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Philip Verhoeven
Voyage en Siam (Thailand, temples, elephants, 1920s)
Acrylic and Marker on Canvas
Year: 2024
Size: 15.75 x 15.75 inches
Signed and titled by hand
COA provided
*Unfr...
Category
2010s Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Permanent Marker
La Nuit de la Peur (horror films, Queen of the Night, classic cinema, ~32% OFF)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Philip Verhoeven
La Nuit de la Peur (horror films, Queen of the Night, classic cinema)
Acrylic and Marker on Canvas
Year: 2024
Size: 15.75 x 15.75 inches
Signed and titled by hand
CO...
Category
2010s Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Permanent Marker
Que le spectacle commence (circus, 1920s, 1930s, entertainment, ~32% OFF)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Philip Verhoeven
Que le spectacle commence (circus, 1920s, 1930s, entertainment)
Acrylic and Marker on Canvas
Year: 2024
Size: 15.75 x 15.75 inches
Signed and titled by hand
COA prov...
Category
2010s Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Permanent Marker
Leaves on Blue Background - Tempera by Carlo Quaglia - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Tempera on paper realized by Carlo Quaglia in 1970s.
Hand signed.
Very good condition.
Category
1970s Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Tempera
Mid Century Fruit Still Life Gouache Painting "Fruit Still Life with Grapes"
Located in Arp, TX
From the estate of Jerry and Ruth Opper
Fruit Still Life with Grapes
c. 1950's
Gouache on Bristol Board
15" x 20"
Early still life expressionist painting b...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
French 20th Century Modernist Painting Bright Colour Interior Abstract
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Interior Abstract
by Guy Nicod
(French 1923 - 2021)
oil on artist paper, unframed
painting : 24 x 19.5 inches
provenance: artists estate, France
condition: very good and sound condition
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
"YOU ALWAYS HURT THE ONE YOU LOVE", surrealist oil painting, skeleton, family
By Tslil Tsemet
Located in Toronto, Ontario
"YOU ALWAYS HURT THE ONE YOU LOVE, 2019, is an oil painting on canvas by artist Tslil Tsemet, and measures 62x55". At once provocative and serene, the wel...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1950's Modernist Painting Hands Threading The Needle
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Threading The Needle
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
original watercolour on artist paper mounted in card frame
size: 12 x 16 inches
co...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Leonard Raven-Hill Oil Painting Still Life Flowers in Vase ii Modern British Art
Located in London, GB
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Leonard Raven-Hill (1867-1942)
Still Life of Flowers II
Oil on canvas
24 x 19 cm
In a handsome frame.
Signed lower left 'L RavenHill'.
A handsome oil painting of a still life of flowers by well-listed painter Leonard Raven-Hill, who has works in the Tate, British Museum, National Portrait Gallery and other famous collections. We have another painting by the same artist listed.
Leonard Raven-Hill (10 March 1867 – 31 March 1942) was an English artist, illustrator, and cartoonist.
He was born in Bath and educated at Bristol Grammar School and the Devon county school. He studied art at the Lambeth School of Art and then in Paris under MM. Bougereau and Aimé Morot. He began to exhibit at the Salon in 1887 but moved back to London when he was appointed as the art editor of Pick-Me-Up. He also continued to work as a painter and exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1889. In 1893 he founded, with Arnold Golsworthy, the humorous and artistic monthly The Butterfly (1893–94, revived in 1899–1900) but began his most prominent association with a publication when his drawings appeared in Punch in December 1895. By 1901 he had joined the staff of Punch as the junior political cartoonist.
He contributed to many other illustrated magazines including The Daily Graphic, Daily Chronicle, The Strand Magazine, The Sketch, Pall Mall Gazette and Windsor Magazine. He also illustrated a number of books including
· East London by Sir Walter Besant (1901)
· Cornish Saints and Sinners by J. H. Harris
· Three Men on the Bummel by Jerome K. Jerome
· Stalky and Co by Rudyard Kipling
· Kipps by H. G. Wells
Raven-Hill published the impressions of his visit to India on the occasion of the tour of the Prince and Princess of Wales as An Indian Sketch...
Category
20th Century Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Vernors & Oreos" Treats for Stevie Wonder, Still-Life, Oil, Colorful
Located in Detroit, MI
SALE ONE WEEK ONLY
“Vernors and Oreos” is a clever colorful piece by Richard Wilson that is full of significant meaning for native Detroiters. The beverage and cookies are specific treats for many people in Detroit and Michigan, but for Stevie Wonder in particular who is also a native Detroiter. The soda is produced and has been manufactured in the city of Detroit since 1862 by the Vernors Co. The story goes that prior to his concerts, Stevie Wonder, always requested that Vernors' Ginger Ale and Oreos be provided in his dressing room.
Wilson has a great admiration for Stevie Wonder and as a gift to the city of Detroit he painted a mural of Stevie Wonder on an outside wall of the Music Hall. The “Ginger Ale and Oreos” painting...
Category
2010s American Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
20th Century French Abstract Still Life Modernist Style Amazing Colors
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Abstract Composition
by Guy Nicod
(French 1923 - 2021)
oil on artist paper, unframed
stamped verso
painting : 19.5 x 24 inches
provenance: artists estate, France
condition: very good...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
French 20th Century Modernist Painting Still Life Croissants and Baguettes
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Bread Still Life
by Guy Nicod
(French 1923 - 2021)
oil on artist paper, unframed
painting : 20 x 25.5 inches
provenance: artists estate, France...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
1970's French Modernist Board Games Abstract Composition Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Abstract Composition
by Guy Nicod
(French 1923 - 2021)
oil on artist paper, unframed
stamped verso
painting : 23 x 16 inches
provenance: artists estate, France
condition: very good a...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Dark Tonal Surrealist Mask Still Life with a Fish
Located in Houston, TX
Dark surrealist painting of masks and fish. The painting is signed by the artist and dated. The painting is framed is in a black frame.
Dimens...
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Painting butterflies LES PAPILLONS by Carole Grandgirard, France 2024.
Located in Antwerp, BE
Painting butterflies LES PAPILLONS.
By Carole Grandgirard, title and signature on the back of the canvas.
Oil on canvas.
Contemporary, France 2024.
Carole Grandgirard is a French ...
Category
2010s Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Whimsical Fields, Contemporary landscape painting, Nature, Meadow, Yellow art
Located in Deddington, GB
Whimsical Fields no. 1 is an original oil painting by artist Alexa Roscoe. This playful landscape scene embodies a fanciful, fun and free feeling. Alexa has captured movement, bold p...
Category
2010s Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"CURSE OF THE CAT PEOPLE", painting, Victorian, Jaguar, surrealist dream, symbol
By Tony Geiger
Located in Toronto, Ontario
CURSE OF THE CAT PEOPLE is an acrylic on canvas surrealist painting by Brooklyn, New York artist Tony Geiger. It measures 36x48" and is a unique artwork. N...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Peter Collins ARCA: 'Still Life with a Fruit Bowl' 20th century oil painting
Located in London, GB
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Category
1940s Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cabriolet coachwork design by Alexis Kellner AG for the Packard Custom Eight.
Located in London, GB
Gouache and watercolour heightened with gum-arabic on very dark green card, annotated in pale ink with body type below, numbered ‘76’, in upper left corner, German copyright label on verso. [Berlin 1930]
Finished in green with contrasting light green roof and matching solid disc wheels, presented against a silhouette of a grand palace, this imposing 4-door cabriolet was one of the more luxurious variant designs around the underpinnings of the company’s straight-8 engine and drive train. It evolved from the Single Eight, so-called as it replaced the earlier V-12 known as the Double Six. Founded in 1899 by brothers James and William Packard, the eponymous company was not only one of the pioneers of North American motor...
Category
1930s Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Handmade Paper
'Still Life With a Basket of Fruit', California Woman Artist
By Lorraine Laubender
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right 'L. Laubender' for Lorraine Laubender (American, 1921-2011) and painted circa 1960. Vintage art exhibition label verso.
A vibrant Modernist still-life by this lis...
Category
1960s Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
“Roses”, a classical still life of bold flowers beside apples and a broken vase
Located in Edgartown, MA
A native of North Carolina, the United States, Stewart's first keen sense of art came through drawing classes that he attended as a child. "At this early age, I began to tap into the vein of classical drawing and painting which was to set the foundation for a life of art later." Stewart received a degree in Art History and Anthropology from the University of Tennessee in 1974. A number of years of study at New York's Art Students League followed, beginning in 1978. His teachers included such notables as Robert Beverly Hale, Robert Phillips, Robert Maione...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Rose of Sharon
Located in Fairfield, CT
About the artist:
Susan Cohen’s paintings are exhibited with New York City galleries: George Billis, Garvey Simon, First Street,The Painting Center; and the Cynthia Winings Gallery...
Category
2010s American Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Egg Tempera
Garden on Ellsworth Road
Located in Fairfield, CT
About the artist:
Susan Cohen’s paintings are exhibited with New York City galleries: George Billis, Garvey Simon, First Street,The Painting Center; and the Cynthia Winings Gallery...
Category
2010s American Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Egg Tempera
Tangled Weeds, Wildflowers
Located in Fairfield, CT
About the artist:
Susan Cohen’s paintings are exhibited with New York City galleries: George Billis, Garvey Simon, First Street,The Painting Center; and the Cynthia Winings Gallery...
Category
2010s American Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Egg Tempera
Echinacea
Located in Fairfield, CT
About the artist:
Susan Cohen’s paintings are exhibited with New York City galleries: George Billis, Garvey Simon, First Street,The Painting Center; and the Cynthia Winings Gallery...
Category
2010s American Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Egg Tempera
"CHILDHOOD MEMORIES I", oil painting, memory, cat lactation, fantasy, innocence
By Tslil Tsemet
Located in Toronto, Ontario
"CHILDHOOD MEMORIES I", 2014, is an oil painting on canvas by artist Tslil Tsemet, and measures 47x62". Characteristic of the artist's best work, it featu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Flowers 1985, oil on board, 47x33 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Flowers
1985, oil on board, 47x33 cm
Laimdots Murnieks has said: "I am a sunny artist. The sun and a woman are the center of the world. It is not for nothing that the sun always c...
Category
1980s Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Still life with wine glasses. 2010, oil on canvas, 120x150 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Still life with wine glasses. 2010, oil on canvas, 120x150 cm
Large size painting with two glass of red wine filled with bright tropical flowers. Painting radiates love, warmth and happiness
Kristīne Luīze Avotiņa is a young and bright personality whose talent is appreciated not only in Latvia, but also in other parts of the world. Her deep inner experiences and feelings of the soul are not hidden from the eyes of the audience, but are openly and engagingly narrated: about relationships, man and woman, passion, emotions, about experience and connection with nature.
Characters live in Kristine's compositional solutions, where figurative painting and ornament appear. When painting large-format works, she masters the entire format, composition and color of the work, as well as linear drawing.
Kristīne herself emphasizes: "Relationships between nature and people - it has always been a relevant topic in my painting. The more I work on it, the more interesting it seems to me. It is infinite and unending. With paint I refresh the beauty of nature and love on the canvas and I want to show that nature and love are equal in their beauty.
In my works, I always want to show that nature is beautiful and worthy of admiration - a newly blooming water lily, falling leaves from golden trees, a pink sunset sky... This could go on forever..."
Education:
2009 – 2010 Studies in „Escola Massana”, Painting Department, Barcelona, Spain
2003 - 2009 Studies in Painting Department, Latvian Academy of Arts, Riga, Latvia
2003 – „Jaņa Rozentāla Riga Art College”, graduation work in photo design.
1999 - 2003 „Jaņa Rozentāla Riga Art College”, Riga, Latvia
1990 - 1999 „Riga French Lycee”, Riga, Latvia
Solo exhibitions:
2010 – „1000 and 1 night” Barcelona painting...
Category
2010s Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Jerusalem Samovar Israeli Judaica Eliezer Weishoff Oil Painting Bezalel Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
Eliezer Weishoff (Israeli, 20th century)
Still life of kettle (Russian samovar) over a warmer, 1973
Acrylic or oil on canvas
Signed, dated and signed ...
Category
1970s Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Maurice Asselin (1882-1947) Les Anémones, oil on canvas signed
Located in Paris, FR
Maurice Asselin (1882-1947)
Les Anémones, a bouquet of anemones
signed upper right
oil on canvas
38 x 46 cm
Label of the exhibition Maurice Asselin at the Galerie Schmit in february...
Category
1930s Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Still life with apples. 1989. Oil on canvas, 60x73 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Still life with apples. 1989. Oil on canvas, 60x73 cm
"Still Life with Apples" presents a harmonious and inviting composition that combines the natural beauty of apples with the vib...
Category
1980s Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage Mid-Century Modern Swedish Still Life Oil Painting - Fish & Flowers
Located in Bristol, GB
FISH & FLOWERS
Size: 47 x 62 cm (including frame)
Oil on Canvas Laid onto Board
A characterful mid-century modernist style still life oil composition, painted onto canvas.
At the h...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board, Canvas
"Junk Food (Pizza)" Contemporary Surrealist Still Life of an Inedible Pizza
Located in Houston, TX
Colorful surrealist still life painting by contemporary Texas artist Henry David Potwin. The work features an opened pizza box with a variety of inedible toppings including items suc...
Category
2010s Surrealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American School Signed Cubist Modern Flower Still Life Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American signed modernist flower still life oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Image size, 16L x 30H.
Category
1950s Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Post Impressionist/ Modernist Still Life with Landscape oil
Located in Frome, Somerset
A fine still life with a landscape oil circa 1990's.
Signed MW : Margaret Webb, the well exhibited contemporary gallery artist.
Oil on board 51cmx 61cm
G...
Category
1980s Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Minimalism" - surrealist still life, flowers, cat, apple, bird
By Guy Robinson
Located in Atlanta, GA
This painting features hues of green, purple, blue, red, and yellow.
This surrealist still life features a cat, vegetables, flowers, pastries, a bird and patterns.
Guy Robinson is i...
Category
2010s Surrealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
"IN-FLIGHT ADJUSTMENT", painting, surrealist dream, submarine, gladiator, dove
By Tony Geiger
Located in Toronto, Ontario
IN-FLIGHT ADJUSTMENT is an acrylic on canvas surrealist painting by Brooklyn, New York artist Tony Geiger. It measures 22x26" and is a unique artwork. It's...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Sunflowers Oil on cardboard, 63x52 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Sunflowers
Oil on cardboard, 63x52 cm
The central focus of the artwork is a bouquet of yellow sunflowers arranged in a vase. Sunflowers are known for their vibrant and sunny appear...
Category
1970s Modern Still-life Paintings
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Oil, Cardboard
Shop Still-Life Paintings on 1stDibs
Still-life paintings work as part of the decor in nearly every type of space.
Still-life art, which includes work produced in media such as painting, photography, video and more, is a popular genre in Western art. However, the depiction of still life in color goes back to Ancient Egypt, where paintings on the interior walls of tombs portrayed the objects — such as food — that a person would take into the afterlife. Ancient Greek and Roman mosaics and pottery also often depicted food. Indeed, still-life paintings frequently feature food, flowers or man-made objects. By definition, still-life art represents anything that is considered inanimate.
During the Middle Ages, the still life genre was adapted by artists who illustrated religious manuscripts. A common theme of these paintings is the reminder that life is fleeting. This is especially true of vanitas, a kind of still life with roots in the Netherlands during the 17th century, which was built on themes such as death and decay and featured skulls and objects such as rotten fruit. In northern Europe during the 1600s, painters consulted botanical texts to accurately depict the flowers and plants that were the subject of their work.
Leonardo da Vinci’s penchant for observing phenomena in nature and filling notebooks with drawings and notes helped him improve as an artist of still-life paintings. Vincent van Gogh, an artist who made a couple of the most expensive paintings ever sold, carried out rich experiments with color over the course of painting hundreds of still lifes, and we can argue that Campbell’s Soup Cans (1961–62) by Andy Warhol counts as still-life art.
While early examples were primarily figurative, you can find still lifes that belong to different schools and styles of painting, such as Cubism, Impressionism and contemporary art.
As part of the wall decor in your living room, dining room or elsewhere, a still-life painting can look sophisticated alongside your well-curated decorative objects and can help set the mood in a space.
When shopping for a still-life painting, think about how it makes you feel and how the artist chose to represent its subject. When buying any art for your home, choose pieces that you connect with. If you’re shopping online, read the description of the work to learn about the artist and check the price and shipping information. Make sure that the works you choose complement or relate to your overall theme and furniture style. Artwork can either fit into your room’s color scheme or serve as an accent piece. Introduce new textures to a space by choosing an oil still-life painting.
On 1stDibs, find a collection of still-life paintings in a wide range of styles and subject matter.