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Still-life Paintings For Sale
Early Summer Creamsicle, Oil Painting
By Judy Mackey
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Judy Mackey says she asked her patrons to help her title this impressionist painting of orange tulips, and she loved the sug...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage Still Life with Lemons
Located in Soquel, CA
Still life of an interior with lemons and draped cloth by James Pollock (American, 20th Century). Signed and dated "Jim Pollock 7/87" on verso. Unframed. Image size: 18"H x 24"W.
Category
1980s American Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Purple Flowers painting
Located in Sempach, LU
Painting with Purple Flowers is a beautiful wall decor, october flowers are one of favorite flowers of the artist, he always tries to show their beauty and luxury. Beside, Nikolay li...
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2010s Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Fiberboard, Linen
Naturalistic Italian painter - 19/20th still life painting - Flowers
Located in Varmo, IT
Italian painter (19th-20th century) - Still life of flowers.
65 x 79 cm without frame, 73.5 x 88.5 cm with frame.
Antique oil painting on canvas, in a gilded wooden frame (wooden p...
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Late 19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Bouquet de fleurs" Pastello cm. 36 x 45 1910 ca
Located in Torino, IT
Eccezionale Pastello Liberty , colori luminosi, bellissima cornice decò
Lucien Victor GUIRAND DE SCÉVOLA (Sète, 1871 – Parigi, 1950)
È allievo ...
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1910s Jugendstil Still-life Paintings
Materials
Paper, Crayon
"Elegant Still Life of Two White, Gold and Blue Cups on Orange and Off White"
Located in Wellesley, MA
Olga Antonova
"Elegant Still Life of Two White, Gold and Blue Cups on Orange and Off White"
Oil on Canvas
10 x 10 Inches
Olga Antonova’s subject is compositions of extraordinarily elegant, beautiful and whimsical cups, plates, teapots, vases and dishes, but there is something playful about these paintings. Stacked teacups are also amusing, having a kind of jaunty and upbeat personality of their own. Polka dots are as endearing to adults as to children, and everyone responds to the bling and sparkle of gold and silver while marveling at Antonova’s seemingly effortless ability to paint these radiant...
Category
2010s Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Flowers: Guzmania. Circa 1963. Signed Giandante X. Milan.
Located in Firenze, IT
The Flowers: Guzmania.
Circa 1963.
Signed Giandante X, a painter born in Milan in 1899 and died in 1984.
Milano.
Measurements without the frame: 50 x 35 cm.
On the back is a pho...
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1960s Expressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Tempera
AL AMANECER
Located in Greenwich, CT
Cecilia studied Social Studies and Literature at Universidad Catolica del Peru, Drawing with Cristina Galvez, and Watercolors with Juan Pastorelli. She...
Category
2010s Abstract Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Oil Pastel, Cotton Canvas, Oil
Pocket Gala Apple with Oil Paint on Canvas, Painting by Dani Humberstone
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Gala Apple [2023]
Pocket Tangerine is an original oil painting by Dani Humberstone as part of her Pocket Painting series featuring small scale realistic oil paintings, with a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Fine Antique British Botanical Painting Birds of Paradise Flower
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Very fine original antique English botanical watercolour paintings depicting this beautiful depiction of a flower/ plant. The work came to us from a private collection in Surrey, Eng...
Category
Early 20th Century Victorian Still-life Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Red Vase, Oil Painting by Donald Roy Purdy
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Donald Roy Purdy, American (1924 - )
Title: Red Vase
Year: circa 1962
Medium: Oil on Masonite, signed l.r.
Size: 47 x 20 inches
Frame Size: 53 x 24 inches
Category
1960s Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
pocket dark blue sloes, Baroque Still Life Painting, Small Art, Fruit Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Dark Blue Sloes is an original still-life painting by artist Dani Humberstone. This painting is a small scale renaissance inspired still life in a photorealistic style and sol...
Category
2010s Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Unforgettable summer bouquet"
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
This floral artwork made in a modern impressionist style with a touch of expressionism. Floral artworks allow me to experience the world of nature through the bright colors of a sum...
Category
2010s Abstract Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Watercolor
Red poppies 40Х40 oil painting
Located in Sempach, LU
In this oil painting, I've poured my passion into every brushstroke, capturing the wild spirit of nature through a vibrant dance of reds and subdued background hues. My expressionist...
Category
2010s Expressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
20th Century French Modernist Painting Pepper Table Still Life
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Expressionist Painting
by Guy Nicod
(French 1923 - 2021)
gouache on artist paper, unframed
painting : 11 x 16 inches
provenance: private collection
condition: very good and sound co...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Botanical Studies, Pair of Watercolours on Silk on Handmade Paper, Anemones
Located in Cotignac, FR
A pair of fine hand painted botanical watercolour studies on silk of anemones by La Roche Laffitte. The works are signed bottom right. Both are titled. The silk has been mounted on h...
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Late 20th Century Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Silk, Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Gouache
The Bouquet Of Aromatic Lilacs - lilacs still life painting
Located in Sempach, LU
The modern and stylish still life with lilacs will become a wonderful decoration of any interior!
The painting is 100% hand painted using high quality oil paints on canvas.
The uniq...
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2010s Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
"Oysters and Lemons", White Fabric Enamel Carafe Symbolism Oil Painting
By Andrée Bars
Located in Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Titled 'Oysters and Lemons', this symbolic oil painting employs a palette of golden tones. It features a weathered white enamel carafe, a wicker basket filled with yellow lemons—one lemon has its peel curling, symbolizing the passage of time—and oysters ready to be eaten, all set upon a semi-transparent fabric.
Andrée Bars is a French painter. Having been strictly trained for 4 years by the American hyper-realist painter Mr. Ted Seth Jacobs...
Category
2010s Symbolist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Burgundy peonies, blue flowers in a vase.Candles and antique table.
Located in Sempach, LU
A gorgeous, luxurious lovely summer bouquet of flowers in a blue vase. Blue wildflowers of forget-me-nots grow at my mother's cottage. White flowers appeared in the forest, delicate....
Category
2010s Expressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Lacquer, Oil
Colorful literature, library, multicolor abstract, expressionism, geometric
Located in LANGRUNE-SUR-MER, FR
"Colorfull literature" beckons the viewer into a realm where books morph into elements of a colorful symphony. The artist adopts a nearly abstract approach, exploring shapes and hues...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Gary E. Hinte (1954-) Impressionist Oil On Canvas "Flower In White Vase"
Located in New York, NY
Title: Flower In White Vase
Medium: Oil On Canvas
Painting Size: 35"" x 29""
Frame Size: 38.5"" x 33""
Condition: This artwork is in good overall condition for its age.
Signature: S...
Category
1960s Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Causeway, Original Contemporary Abstract Painting, Green and Blue Painting
By Jon Rowland
Located in Deddington, GB
The simplicity of the space, colour, and focus in this work is very different to much of my work. It is the coming together of these elements at the start of the second 'lockdown' that reflected issues of normality and the desire for change to a simpler more relevant approach to life. Surprising that the journey should have resulted in this painting.
Discover new paintings by Jon Rowland online and in our gallery at Wychwood Art. Each work has been carefully selected by Deborah Allan our Chief Art Curator. Wychwood Art have exhibited Jon Rowland in London during a pop-up exhibition of theirs at the Darren Baker...
Category
2010s Abstract Still-life Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Oranges. Montilla Oil on canvas. Orange, Yelow, Fuchsia Expressionist Still-Life
Located in Segovia, ES
"Oranges" oil on canvas. Expressionist colorful still life.
Measurements: (H) 61 x (W) 46 x (D) 2 cm.
Framed: (H) 81 x (W) 66 x (D) 4 cm
Expressionist still life with ...
Category
2010s Expressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Bananas - original hyperrealistic still life oil painting - contemporary art
Located in London, Chelsea
In "Bananas" by Vita Kobylkina, the artist skillfully captures the vibrant essence of everyday objects, elevating the mundane into a captivating work of art. At the heart of the canv...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Amanda Horvath, Golden Evening Light, Original Painting, Contemporary Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Amanda Horvath
Golden Evening Light
Original Acrylic Painting on Canvas
Acrylics on canvas
Image size: 71cm x 71cm x 2cm
Framed size: 87cm x 87cm x 5cm
(Please note that in situ imag...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Flowering Pinks, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Carey Parks depicts a blooming hydrangea plant. The soft background brings out the delicate pink petals and vibrant green leaves. Carey selects the flowe...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Still Life - 1950s - Pio Semeghini - Painting - Contemporary
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed and dated by the artist lower right. Includes a beautiful contemporary wooden gilded frame. In excellent conditions.
References:
- Catalogo della mostra di Pio Semeghini...
Category
1950s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood
Pocket Bumble Bee 3, Baroque Still Life, Insect, Animals, Affordable art, Spring
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Bumble Bee 3 is an original oil painting by Dani Humberstone as part of her Pocket Painting series featuring small scale realistic oil paintings, with a nod to baroque still l...
Category
2010s Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fine French Still Life Oil Painting Bouquet of Roses in Vase signed original
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Bouquet de Roses
by Leon Garraud (French 1877-1967)
signed oil on board, framed
framed: 19 x 16 inches
board: 15.5 x 12 inches
inscribed verso to label
provenance: private collection...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Cup of coffee and tangerine
Located in Sempach, LU
"Cup of coffee and tangerine” is a celebration of the beauty that can be found in the simplest of things. The style of the painting is inspired by the Holland masters of the 17th cen...
Category
2010s Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Large Colorful Still Life of Flowers Profusion of Petals & Flowers Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Profusion of Flowers
European artist, late 20th century
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas : 24 x 20 inches
provenance: private collection, UK
condition: very good and sound condition
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mid Century French Watercolour Walled Garden Blossom Tree Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Landscape
Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Ballpoint Pen
1940's French Post Impressionist Painting Mediterranean Village Street View
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Street View Landscape
Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) ...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Ballpoint Pen
Diptych of Single hummingbird & Tuesday's Girl (Sakura), Originals, Floral, Girl
Located in Deddington, GB
2 original paintings by Angela Smith.
Slightly different sizes, both sold framed - Tuesday's Girl (Sakura): Complete size of framed work: 53 H x 53 W x 3.5 D cm (20.87 x 20.87 x 1.38...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Crucuses, Belgian Original Oil Painting with Flowers by Irina Trushkova
Located in Sempach, LU
A vibrant blue and white crocuses vase is placed in a smooth, neutral space. I intended to keep the tenderness and preciousness of flowers, a quality I wanted to preserve. The work i...
Category
2010s Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Flower Garland Virgin Paint Oil on canvas Old master 17th Century Italy
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Giovanni Stanchi (Rome 1608 - 1675) or Niccolò Stanchi (Rome 1623 - 1690), workshop of
GARLAND OF FLOWERS WITH PORTRAIT OF THE VIRGIN
Rome, First half of the Seventeenth century
o...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Pocket Full Moon 2, Original Painting, Skyscape, Space, Lunar, Affordable art
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Full Moon is an original oil painting by Dani Humberstone as part of her Pocket Painting series featuring small scale realistic oil paintings, with a nod to baroque still life...
Category
2010s Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Expressionist Floral Still Life
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Beautiful Expressionist floral still life painting. Oil on canvas measuring 14 x 20 inches, 18 x 24 inches framed.
Frame is from the 1960's but the canvas is clearly much older, ca...
Category
Early 20th Century Expressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Paul Sannemann, Still Life With Chrysanthemums, Oil Painting
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This early 20th-century oil painting by German artist Paul Sannemann (1886-1943) depicts a vibrant still life with chrysanthemums.
Sannemann had an eye for colour, never one to shy ...
Category
1930s Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique rabbit painting by Abel Hold, Victorian rabbit still life oil portrait
By Abel Hold
Located in AIGNAN, FR
Antique oil portrait painting of a rabbit by English artist Abel Hold (1815-1893), signed in the lower left corner A Hold. This atmospher...
Category
1860s Victorian Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Lilac flowers in a vase
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
In this abstract floral artwork I experience the world of spring flowers through the bright colors of a spring period.
While painting, I sought to capture the beauty of blooming lil...
Category
2010s Abstract Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Early blooming lilacs
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
In this abstract floral artwork I experience the world of spring flowers through the bright colors of a spring period.
While painting, I sought to capture the beauty of blooming lil...
Category
2010s Abstract Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Fresh Flowers - contemporary, floral still life, acrylic and oil on canvas
By Pat Service
Located in Bloomfield, ON
A pretty, mixed floral bouquet fills the canvas with joyful colour in this still-life painting by Pat Service. The Canadian artist explored the traditional art form in the 1990’s but...
Category
1990s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas, Acrylic
My Favourite Orange Silk Cloth - floral still life, acrylic and oil on canvas
By Pat Service
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Colour, fresh and vivid, gives this classic still life by Pat Service a contemporary feel.
A beloved bright orange silk cloth, draped over a table set with two patterned vases of col...
Category
1990s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Untitled
By Richard Pousette-Dart
Located in Miami, FL
Acrylic on masonite. This is a pivotal work in deep and radiant cobalt blue from 1950. It dipicts calligraphic and hieroglyph structures over a grid and pyramidal base by the first generation abstract expressionist.
Provenance: Skinner: November 13, 1992 [Lot 00219}, The entry in the Skinner catalog indicates that the painting came directly from the artist to the family of the consignor to Skinner. Kaminsky Auctions. There is an unbroken paper trail that traces the ownership of the painting from the current owner, through two auction houses to the artist. Perfect unbroken provenance.
Pousette-Dart was among the most inventive of the Abstract Expressionist generation, His uncanny talent was to expand the nature of abstraction and still make each mark each element very much his own; a reflection of what he called "the concealed power of the spirit," he said, “not of the brute physical form." His was not aiming for a singular, realized aesthetic formula but to expand the possibilities of painting; the transcendental in painting. Typical of such invention and exploration is this painting Untitled 1950 when the artist was only 34 years old and represented by one of the champions of the new American painting, Betty Parsons.
A banner year for Pousette-Dart, the Museum of Modern Art acquired their first painting by the Minnesota born artist. He worked on easel size works such as this painting an oil on masonite. At the same time Pousette-Dart was also working on larger scale works such as Path of the Hero, running over ten feet in length now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Both contain fields of color articulated by a highly sophisticated white hieroglyphic vocabulary. Rather than demonstrate an expressionist sensibility, Pousette-Dart harnesses his more cerebral ideas transforming thick areas of paint into a more refined composition of geometric forms akin to the pattern and forms of say a stained glass window. In a way he is looking back at Fugue, 1940 a black and white composition which makes use of a similar format of painting albeit smaller. Color and form are minimal, but what Pousette-Dart has maximized is the rhythmic and syncopated character of painting casting his ideas into purely symbolic terms that one might link to the pictograms of Adolph Gottlieb. Nonetheless, nature is always at the core of Pousette-Dart’s thinking and dreaming. Here he has transformed the local Ramapo Mountains—where he will eventually move with his family to live and work— into a complex series of articulated fragments linked by style, scale and color. The painting’s imagery built on two large triangles and reduced to just two colors, cobalt blue and white all outlined in black. Pousette-Dart symbols stacked in horizontal and vertical rows: blue is ground, white is language, symbolic of light, consciousness and awareness . The painting maintains a mystical character images compounded that formulate a secret code and linked to the series of white paintings Pousette-Dart authored in the first half of the 1950s. Get up close to the picture and you discover images within images a kind of picture puzzle...
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1950s Abstract Expressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Acrylic
The landscape.Red mountains in the style of Paul Gauguin" original painting by L
Located in Sempach, LU
The landscape.Red mountains in the style of Paul Gauguin" original painting by Lilia Volskaya.Size:55x75 cm. Cotton canvas, mineral pigments, natural environmental paints. Painting i...
Category
2010s Expressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
What?
Located in Wenham, MA
This piece is an original oil painting on panel. It is framed in a simple gold frame. The overall dimensions of the piece as framed are approximately 11x11 inches.
GC Williams has ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Calabaza (Pumpkin). Expressionist still-life. Colorful Orange, yelow, turquoise.
Located in Segovia, ES
Calabaza (Pumpkin) . Oil on canvas by Spanish artist Chico Montilla.
Measurements: (H) 116x (W) 81 x 2 (D) cm.
Framed 139 x 104 x 4.5 cm.
Colorful expressionist still-life.
Beautif...
Category
Early 1900s Expressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Meadow herb, Scottish borders, Original painting, Landscape, Nature, Pink floral
Located in Deddington, GB
Meadow herb, Scottish borders by Natalie Bird, oil on board painting in an impressionist style. The landscape composes of mounatins in tones of blue in the background with pink flowe...
Category
2010s Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
TANGERINES
Located in New York, NY
Original Painting by Loren DiBenedetto
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
HANGING MAGNOLIA - Realism / Plant / Still Life
Located in New York, NY
Original Oil Painting by Loren DiBenedetto
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Modern British still life, pink roses, tea cup and fruit by Norman Edgar
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Norman B. Edgar (Scottish, 1948 -2022) (pink roses)
Roses in a jug by tea cup and fruit
Signed ‘Edgar’ (lower left)
Oil on canvas
20 x 20 in. (50.8 x 50.8 cm.)
Norman Edgar was bor...
Category
20th Century Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Still Life with Ribbons - Oil Paint by Gianni Cacciarini - 1970s
By Gianni Cacciarini
Located in Roma, IT
Still life with ribbons is a modern artwork realized by Gianni Cacciarini.
Mixed colored oil on board.
Hand signed on the lower margin.
Includes an elegant frame (with some loss).
Category
1970s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sola Puig 22 Trumpet Mimosas and Book Original impressionist
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
trumpet. Mimosas and book Original impressionist oil canvas painting. framed
Sola PUIG, Joan (Barcelona 1950 )
Joan SOLÁ paints in a natural way, which reflects the Old Masters, s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sola Puig 13 TRUMPET AND MIMOSA original impressionist acrylic painting
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
TRUMPET AND MIMOSA original impressionist acrylic painting.
SOLÁ paints in a natural way, which reflects the Old Masters, soaking up the colour, air, smell and the pure scent of hi...
Category
1990s Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Still Life of Flowers in Jug - Post Impressionist 1940's art floral oil painting
Located in London, GB
This superb Post Impressionist floral oil painting is by noted successful Russian born female artist Nadia Benois. Benois came to England and settled in London in 1920 having married...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
French Impressionist Tablescape Still Life Watercolour
Located in Cotignac, FR
French Impressionist watercolour on paper view of a colourful tablescape still life by Henri Clamen. The painting is not signed but was acquired form the atelier of the artist with o...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Iris VIII, Original art work with pencil, Floral, Flower, Nature
Located in Deddington, GB
This drawing is one in a series of botanical line drawings depicting the seasonal flowers of English gardens and the countryside.
Size: H:29.7 cm x W:21 cm
Additional Information:
...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Pencil
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.