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Still-life Paintings For Sale
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Cocktail Party - Four individual 5" x 5" (quadtych)
Located in Homer Glen, IL
*From May 15th to July 28th, this painting will be on display at the 36th Annual Northern National Art Competition. It will still be available for purchase, however the buyer must wait for the the painting to return from the show* This is an oil painting titled "Cocktail Party...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

Materials

Oil

Coffee Espresso #7
Located in Deddington, GB
Coffee Espresso #7 by Eliza Southwood [2022] original Coffee on Paper Image size: H:59.5 cm x W:42.5 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:59.5 cm x W:42.5 cm x D:0.1cm Sold Unfra...
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21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art Still-life Paintings

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Paper, Coffee

Floral Still Life with French Basket of Apples and Pewter Pitcher Impressionism
Located in Soquel, CA
Clean and modern still life by unknown artist "LM" (20th Century). Pastel colored flowers sit in a vase at the back of the composition. In front of the vase is a basket of yellow-gre...
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1980s Impressionist Still-life Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Pine Board
Located in East Quogue, NY
Hyperreal oil painting of a pinewood board with wood knot detail by Anthony Adcock- Oil on copper **No wood was used in this painting - It is an oil painting on copper panel. Everyt...
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2010s Realist Still-life Paintings

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Copper

Sydney Licht "Still Life with Teabags" - Contemporary Oil Painting on Linen
Located in New York, NY
Sydney Licht Still Life with Teabags, 2022 oil on linen 12 x 12 in. (lich207) Sydney Licht’s still-life subjects are not merely quotidian, household objects, but the packaging, shop...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Linen, Oil

Mid Century Modern Black Eyed Susan Floral Still-Life
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid-century modern still-life oil painting of black-eyed susans on a table set with fruit by San Diego artist Elizabeth Evelyn Sherman Sellon (American, 1896-1986). Unsigned and unframed. Image size: 24"H x 20"W. A member of the San Diego Art Guild, Elizabeth exhibited throughout Southern California in the 1920s and 1930s. She studied and worked in Paris, New York and Santa Fe, New Mexico. One of her still life paintings was exhibited at the California Pacific...
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1940s American Impressionist Still-life Paintings

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Cardboard, Canvas, Oil

'Still Life of Alstroemeria', California Woman Artist, Santa Cruz Art Guild, Oil
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Puccinelli' for Cathy Puccinelli, (American, born 1952), a member of the Santa Cruz Art Guild, and painted in 2022.
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2010s Post-Impressionist Still-life Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

'Petit Déjeuner'. Surrealist Acrylic on Canvas.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Surrealist contemporary tablescape, acrylic on canvas by Scottish artist Frank McLean Docherty R.S.W. Signed and dated bottom left, presented in custom wood frame. This piece is wonderfully colourful, playful and is typical of his witty sense of humour. Docherty likes to tease us visually and asks questions and presents conundrums to the viewer. Frank McLean Docherty was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1942. He became a student at Glasgow School of Art in 1960 and graduated from the Department of Printed Textiles in 1964. He taught in a secondary school in the East End of Glasgow for two years, thereafter departing to work in Dublin in the Republic of Ireland as a textile designer (Marks & Spencer, Heals and Liberty of London). He was also an illustrator for a range of newspapers and an Art Director of magazines. In 1973, he was appointed Principal Teacher of Art in a Scottish High School and in 1978 was honoured by the Queen when he was appointed Member of the Royal Society of Painters in Watercolours (R.S.W.) He left education in 1994. Since that time he has developed a vision which is quite unique in Scottish Art. Bank Managers, toucans, lighthouses, penguins, bowler hats, Frank Docherty...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Butterflies Paradise
Located in Deddington, GB
Butterflies paradise by Mary Chaplin [2022] original acrylic on linen canvas Image size: H:89 cm x W:116 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:89 cm x W:116 cm x D:2cm Sold Unframed...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Large American Modernist Watercolor Painting Irises Bernard Chaet Expressionist
Located in Surfside, FL
Hand signed Irises (purple and yellow flowers) 30 X 37 framed. 20.5 X 26.5 sheet without frame. Bernard Chaet (born 1924, Boston, MA - 2012) was an American artist; Chaet is known for his colorful, dynamic modernist paintings and masterful draftsmanship, his association with the Boston Expressionists, and his 40-year career as a Professor of Painting at Yale University. His works also include watercolors and prints. In 1994, he was named a National Academician by the National Academy of Design. Chaet was instrumental in transforming Yale’s traditional art program into one with a more modernist approach that gained national prominence. Chaet melded landscape and abstraction in a traditional established by Vincent Van Gogh, Georges Seurat, Edvard Munch, Piet Mondrian, and Ferdinand Hodler. His own tenure began in 1951 at Yale, where he worked closely with Josef Albers to revamp Yale’s art program. Between 1959 and 1962 he was the chair of what was then called the Yale Department of Art of the School of Fine Arts — prior to becoming one of the independent professional schools at Yale in 1973. Chaet taught painting and drawing and mentored generations of emerging talents. Chaet was the author of the 1970 textbook “The Art of Drawing” and “An Artist’s Notebook 1979,” both of which have since been reissued several times. In the latter book, alongside examples of work by his favorite artists, are student drawings by Yale graduates such as Robert Birmelin, Michael Mazur and Eugene Baguskas. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1924, Chaet studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and then earned a B.A. at Tufts University. Known for his expressionist landscapes and still lifes, Chaet’s work has continuously been shown in galleries in his native Boston, in New York City, and around the country. In 2010, a retrospective of his seascapes was featured at the Cape Ann Historical Society in Gloucester, Massachusetts, where he had a home and a summer studio in nearby Rockport. His has also exhibited at David Findlay Gallery in New York and at Swarthmore College. Many of Chaet’s students went on to notable art careers, including Janet Fish, Chuck Close, and Richard Serra. His work is represented in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum in Lincoln, Massachusetts, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, CT, and the Addison Gallery of American Art in Andover, MA. Chaet is the recipient of many awards including: the National Foundation of the Arts and Humanities, Sabbatical Grant in 1967-68, the National Academy of Fine Arts, Benjamin Altman Award in Painting in 1997, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Jimmy Ernst Prize in 2001. Chaet was born and raised in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, MA. He completed a dual program at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston—studying painting with Karl Zerbe—and Tufts University, graduating with a B.S. in 1949. Chaet is known for his association as a first generation Boston Expressionist. (along with Hyman Bloom and Jack Levine) Chaet was a contributing editor to Arts Magazine. In 1960 he published the book Artists At Work, which features in depths conversations with artists Pat Adams, Anni Albers, Josef Albers, Al Blaustein, Hyman Bloom, James Brooks, Robert Engman, Esther Geller, Seymour Lipton, Conrad Marca-Relli, Gabor Peterdi, Irwin Rubin, Elbert Weinberg...
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1970s American Modern Still-life Paintings

Materials

Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper

Large American Modernist Watercolor Painting Leeks Bernard Chaet Expressionist
Located in Surfside, FL
Hand signed and dated leeks on a kitchen table 31.5 X 39.5 framed. 21 X 28.5 sheet without frame. Bernard Chaet (born 1924, Boston, MA - 2012) was an American artist; Chaet is known for his colorful, dynamic modernist paintings and masterful draftsmanship, his association with the Boston Expressionists, and his 40-year career as a Professor of Painting at Yale University. His works also include watercolors and prints. In 1994, he was named a National Academician by the National Academy of Design. Chaet was instrumental in transforming Yale’s traditional art program into one with a more modernist approach that gained national prominence. Chaet melded landscape and abstraction in a traditional established by Vincent Van Gogh, Georges Seurat, Edvard Munch, Piet Mondrian, and Ferdinand Hodler. His own tenure began in 1951 at Yale, where he worked closely with Josef Albers to revamp Yale’s art program. Between 1959 and 1962 he was the chair of what was then called the Yale Department of Art of the School of Fine Arts — prior to becoming one of the independent professional schools at Yale in 1973. Chaet taught painting and drawing and mentored generations of emerging talents. Chaet was the author of the 1970 textbook “The Art of Drawing” and “An Artist’s Notebook 1979,” both of which have since been reissued several times. In the latter book, alongside examples of work by his favorite artists, are student drawings by Yale graduates such as Robert Birmelin, Michael Mazur and Eugene Baguskas. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1924, Chaet studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and then earned a B.A. at Tufts University. Known for his expressionist landscapes and still lifes, Chaet’s work has continuously been shown in galleries in his native Boston, in New York City, and around the country. In 2010, a retrospective of his seascapes was featured at the Cape Ann Historical Society in Gloucester, Massachusetts, where he had a home and a summer studio in nearby Rockport. His has also exhibited at David Findlay Gallery in New York and at Swarthmore College. Many of Chaet’s students went on to notable art careers, including Janet Fish, Chuck Close, and Richard Serra. His work is represented in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum in Lincoln, Massachusetts, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, CT, and the Addison Gallery of American Art in Andover, MA. Chaet is the recipient of many awards including: the National Foundation of the Arts and Humanities, Sabbatical Grant in 1967-68, the National Academy of Fine Arts, Benjamin Altman Award in Painting in 1997, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Jimmy Ernst Prize in 2001. Chaet was born and raised in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, MA. He completed a dual program at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston—studying painting with Karl Zerbe—and Tufts University, graduating with a B.S. in 1949. Chaet is known for his association as a first generation Boston Expressionist. (along with Hyman Bloom and Jack Levine) Chaet was a contributing editor to Arts Magazine. In 1960 he published the book Artists At Work, which features in depths conversations with artists Pat Adams, Anni Albers, Josef Albers, Al Blaustein, Hyman Bloom, James Brooks, Robert Engman, Esther Geller, Seymour Lipton, Conrad Marca-Relli, Gabor Peterdi, Irwin Rubin, Elbert Weinberg...
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1970s American Modern Still-life Paintings

Materials

Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper

Hidden Shapes and Primary Colors, Geometric Terrazzo Patterns, Tan Background
Located in Barcelona, ES
This series of hand painted acrylic paintings by Natalia Roman are inspired by the colors and textures of Italian terrazzo tiling. The patterns created combine a variety of vivid col...
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2010s Abstract Geometric Still-life Paintings

Materials

Oil Pastel, Oil, Acrylic, Watercolor, Gouache

Raspberry Mousse Pie, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Artist Pat Doherty depicts a slice of raspberry mousse pie, drizzled in raspberry sauce. The pie is topped with whipped cream, bluebe...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings

Materials

Oil

REDOUTE, Pierre Joseph. Rosa Parvi-Flora.
Located in London, GB
A Gift from King Charles X to the Duchesse de Berry REDOUTE, Pierre Joseph. Rosa parvi-flora. Watercolour over traces of black chalk on vellum, within gold framing lines; signed in...
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1820s Naturalistic Still-life Paintings

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Chalk, Pen, Watercolor, Ink

Sushi Plate, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
An assortment of nigiri and sushi rolls displayed on a white plate with chopsticks, placed on a green oval serving platter. "In creating my paintings, I draw on my experience as a former commercial art director and designer," says artist Pat Doherty. "I take time to balance the elements in my compositions and establish good color relationships between light and shadow."


About the Artist
Pat Doherty follows in the tradition of Bay Area artists who paint what they love. Her culinary series is a reflection of her surroundings; Pat is a third generation San Franciscan now living in Marin. The Bay Area is the perfect place to find the petit fours and decadent pastries featured in her work "Sweet Choices." Similar in subject matter to Wayne Theibaud's desserts, Pat’s unique style starts with a rich color palette and an angled picture plane to achieve depth. The subjects are often simple, but Pat takes the time to understand them and develop a mastery of light and shadow. The art has a certain humor and light-heartedness as well, especially with her series of dogs and bite-sized confections. Pat's style is inspired by her previous work in the graphic design industry, when she was the art director of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, art director of San Francisco magazine, and senior art director at a private design firm. Pat's work has been featured in American Art Collector magazine, several solo shows, including the Caffe Museo in the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, as well as many group shows, including frequent showings at the Marin Museum of Contemporary Art.


Words that describe this painting: cuisine, sushi, dining, still life, nigiri, food, Japanese, Japan, salmon, pop art, Wayne Thiebaud, pop, cuisine, representational, oil painting, green


Sushi Plate...

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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Still-life Paintings

Materials

Oil

Silly Rabbit, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
"Trix is a favorite cereal for the young and old," says artist Karen Barton. The familiar wide smile of the bunny stirs joy and the sweetness of childhood memor...

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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Still-life Paintings

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Oil

Green Armchair - vivid detail, realist, interior, Ukrainian, Israeli, oil/canvas
Located in Bloomfield, ON
A well-worn green leather chair sits against a dilapidated wall--paint-peeling in this nostalgic oil painting by Dmitry Yuzefovich. A small collectio...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Vegetables, Photorealist Painting by Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993) Title: Vegetables Year: 1978 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed and dated verso Size: 30 in. x 40 in. (76....
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1970s Photorealist Still-life Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Mid Century Modern Floral Still Life Bright Painting Framed Rare Female Artist
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original watercolor painting by American female artist Genevieve D. Anderson Morgan (1900 - 1987) This modernist vivid abstract expressionist painting depicts a still life with l...
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1960s Abstract Expressionist Still-life Paintings

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Watercolor, Paper

Untitled - Two Pots
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Two oil paintings of potted tulips. The canvases are attached, but could be hung separately. Both compositions show a terra-cotta pot of tulips, the backgrounds of both have shades o...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil

Orpheus - Jean Cocteau Retro Book Original Artwork on Canvas for Narrow Wall
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Carl Smith is an American artist who has been living in Berlin, Germany, since 2001. He works with a combination of silkscreen printing, collage, and painting to create his urban ins...
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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Still-life Paintings

Materials

Linen, Canvas, Acrylic, Screen

STILL LIFE LOCKDOWN DELIRIUM MAY… - Cubist Interior Painting Inspired by Covid L
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
Coming Soon
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Binyamin Basteker, Abstract composition , 1990 oil on canvas 87 x 115 cm
Located in Jerusalem, IL
Binyamin Basteker Abstract composition , 1990 oil on canvas 87 x 115 cm 34 x 45 in Binyamin Basteker was born in Mumbai in 1953. Growing up in a family of artists, his unique tal...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Still-life Paintings

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Oil

Sinatra & Ava Gardner, colorful circular patterns on neutral ground
Located in Brooklyn, NY
At the intersection of still-life, portrait, and landscape, Sinatra & Gardner is one of the earliest paintings in a series focused on limited palettes and maximum negative space.
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2010s Abstract Still-life Paintings

Materials

Charcoal, Oil

Details about LARGE 1970'S FRENCH MODERNIST SIGNED OIL - BRIGHT & COLORFUL INT
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: French School, signed lower left, circa 1970's Title: The Interior. Medium: oil painting, on canvas, framed. Size: frame: 25 x 41inches painting: 23.5 x...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Impressionist Still-life Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

"Dripping Dots - Coco Days in Paris" Contemporary Perfume Bottle Oil Painting
Located in New York, NY
This piece is part of an exciting new collection depicting iconic "Coco Chanel" with the artists "Dripping Dots" style. Focused on a pointillistic technique, the paint is able to cap...
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2010s Pop Art Still-life Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil

One Long Day - lively, narrative, overlapping botanicals, acrylic, oil on canvas
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Inspired by 17th century botanical illustrations of women naturalists, Fiona Ackerman’s beautiful acrylic series of paintings are delicately detailed compositions of natural images—f...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

"Scholars' Treasures, " Ink on Fabric, c. 1850
Located in Chicago, IL
A scroll and a small lantern depicted in this 19th-century painting suggest the romantic notion of a Chinese scholar painting in the evening hours. Re...
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Mid-19th Century Qing Still-life Paintings

Materials

Silk, Ink, Pigment

'Interior, Ivory and Jade', France, Atherton, California, Hawaii, Large Oil
By Judith Gaulke
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'J. Gaulke' for Judith Gaulke (American, born 1946) and painted circa 1995; additionally titled, verso, 'Biot, France' and signed. Since her first solo show in ...
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1990s American Modern Still-life Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

TV Dinner - Ham
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles -- Artist Statement Nothing But Neon, 2021 I see beauty in old neon signs. I have always been fascinated by the glow inside the h...
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2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Flourishing
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary: Working on a different material, yupo, which is non absorbent, led to new ways to work. Ink and acrylic were poured onto a wet surface and allowed to puddle and dr...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Still-life Paintings

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Ink, Paper, Acrylic

20th Century Original French Expressionist Oil Painting Vibrant Red Flower
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Original oil painting by P. Valetti (French, second half 20th century) oil on canvas, unframed size: 18 x 14.75 inches condition: very good provenance: from the artists estate, Franc...
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20th Century Abstract Expressionist Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Large Colourful Abstract Painting "New Atom Shimmer 1"
Located in Cape Town, ZA
A colourful, unique painting on stretched canvas, ready to hang. The painting consists of shiny pools of enamel paint that was thickly poured onto the canvas to create a three-dimensional effect of stand-out glossy paint...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Enamel

1950s "Sleeping with Fruit" Mid Century Figurative Painting University of Paris
Located in Arp, TX
Donald Stacy "Sleeping with Fruit" c.1950s Gouache paint on paper 24" x 18'" unframed Unsigned Came from artist's estate *Custom framing available for additional charge. Please expec...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Still-life Paintings

Materials

Paper, Gouache

Vintage Irises and Daisies Still Life
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful 1970s still life of Japanese irises and marguerite daisies by Winona Cappell (American, 20th century). Signed lower right corner. Unframed. Image size: 24"H x 18"W. Cappel...
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1970s American Impressionist Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Sea Foam Party Pt I, Original Abstract Painting, 2021
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary: Sea Foam Party Pt I & II are a 2 piece series of Shelbi Nicole's interpretation of a beautiful coral reef, but of course with her sign...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Still-life Paintings

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Acrylic

Marie Robinson, Spring Posy, Original Still Life Painting, Floral Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Spring Posy [2021] Original Still Life Oil paint on board Image Size: H:18 cm x W:18 cm x D:0.5cm Framed Size: H:31.5 cm x W:31.5 cm x D:3.5cm Sold Framed in a white wood frame Please note that insitu images are purely an indication of how a piece may look Marie Robinson's Spring Posy is an original oil painting inspired by the simple but beautiful little flowers popping up in the garden heralding Spring. Marie often uses vintage items in her still lives and here is a little vintage glass ink bottle...
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Still-life Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Camellia no. 1 - original watercolor
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Camellia no.1' original watercolor painted in 2021, a singular camellia flower in pink with hints of yellow with beautiful green foliage from Cleveland-born and educated Gary Bukovn...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Still-life Paintings

Materials

Watercolor, Archival Paper

Vanity 4
Located in Paris, IDF
Bruno DESPLANQUES (Born in 1966, France) Vanity 4 Painting on wood H. 24 cm ; L. 30 cm
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings

Materials

Paint

Antique American Modernist Cubist Fruit Still Life Signed Texas Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist still life oil painting by Norman Baasch. Oil on board, circa 1965. Signed. Displayed in a period frame. Image, 15"L x 12"H.
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1960s Modern Still-life Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Vanity 3
Located in Paris, IDF
Bruno DESPLANQUES (Born in 1966, France) Vanity 3 Painting on wood H. 24 cm ; L. 30 cm
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings

Materials

Paint

Mini alocasia painting
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary: This painting was created from a photo of a leaf I captured in Hawaii. I was inspired to use a warm, flat background to complement the intricate green details of t...
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21st Century and Contemporary Naturalistic Still-life Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Fruit in Glass Bowl - Still Life
Located in Soquel, CA
Vibrant still life by Henri Georges Cheval (French, 1897-1987). Several pieces of fruit are arranged in a glass bowl, placed atop a white cloth on a table. Two pears are outside the bowl to the left, and there is a glass to the right. The glass pieces have a greenish tint, and there are teal shadows in the cloth. Signed in the lower right corner in pencil. Presented in a new cream mat with foamcore backing. "#0267" is written on verso Paper size: 12.25"H x 19.5"W Included with the sale is the backing cardboard from Atelier 68 Inc., stating artist's info with the reference to his listing in the Benezit, French Dictionary...
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Early 20th Century Impressionist Still-life Paintings

Materials

Paper, Gouache

American Modernist Jack Hooper "Fruit Still Life" Original Painting
Located in Arp, TX
Jack Hooper "Fruit Still Life" 10-1996 Conte crayon and gouache on paper 19.75"x14.25" cherry wood frame with white sides 24.25"x18.25" Signed and dated in...
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1990s American Modern Still-life Paintings

Materials

Conté, Paper, Gouache

Plums, 2020. Oil on canvas, 30 x 40 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Works of Liene Liepina are full of life and joy because of photography-like, realistic details on the one hand, and intense and slightly artificial color...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Intro, Mixed media Abstract painting on Canvas
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Intro, by Alec Franco Acrylic paint on canvas Image size: 150 cm H X 100 cm W One of a Kind Unframed Hand-signed by artist _______ The artist's work...
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2010s Abstract Still-life Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Janet Crawford, "Saddle", 20x16 Equestrian Horse Tack Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
This equestrian piece, "Saddle", is a 20x16 outdoor still life oil painting on canvas featuring a brown horse's saddle resting on a white fence. About the artist: The artwork of Janet Crawford depicts the equestrian lifestyle. Working from her studio in the Berkshires, Janet focuses on classic portraiture of horses, dogs and people. Her original artwork captures the candid moments of the horse world. A trademark of the artist's work is the portrayal of the true nature of the horse. Education: Bachelor of Fine Arts, Cum Laude Concentration: Painting Rhode Island College, 1991 Press: 2000 - Featured artist in Equine Image article, Aug/Sept issue, 2000. Selected Awards: 2012 - National Distinguished Service Award, American Hackney Horse Society 1995 - Horse World Magazine Morgan Artist of the Year 1993 - Harness Tracks of America Art Competition, 2nd Place 1991 - AMHA Art Contest 1st Prize, Morgan Art 1990 - Special Talent Award, Rhode Island College Special Projects: Present - Designer and Painter, Berkshire Carousel Project Present - Program Cover and Horse Show Poster Artist for the Fleet Jumper Classic, Sept. 2000. Present - Poster Artist for the Hampton Classic, Aug. 27-Sept. 3rd. Present - Program Cover Artist since 1996 for UPHA Spring Premiere Present - Illustrator, Horse World Magazine 2012 - Artist for the American Hackney Horse Society Logo 2011 - Cover Artist for the Pfizer Million Dollar Grand Prix Horse Show Program 1999 - Cover Artist, The Chronicle of the Horse 1999 - Cover Artist, Horse America (Horsemen's Yankee Pedlar) 1999 - Exhibition "The Horse in Art" Hartford Fine Art & Frame 1997 - Opening of the Equestrian Collection Gallery 1996 - New England Morgan Horse...
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2010s Realist Still-life Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Bowl of Grapes, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Artist John Jaster portrays a fresh display of red and green grapes with a ripe pomegranate placed in a glass bowl. Set above a patterned table cloth, the glass reflects light and vibrant hues of pink that surrounds it. Bunches of grapes nest in the cloth's loose crease reminiscent of tiny bird eggs. The dark background highlights the scene completing the composition.


About the Artist
Artist John Jaster paints in a style he describes as realistic impressions, capturing colorful views of his adventures across the Americas. "People always ask me how I get such deep brilliant colors," says John. "The answer is layers. Since acrylic paint dries mostly transparent, it requires multiple layers of paint to build up to a specific color. With the right lighting that depth of layering is like sunshine glistening through clear water." In college, John felt a pull towards computer science and pursued a career in software architecture. Although the two paths may seem unrelated, John says his work in software strongly influences his artwork in terms of distilling complex systems without losing the magic and wonder. Today, John works from a large home studio with a fireplace, lots of natural light, and jazz playing in the background. Since 2010, John’s paintings have been displayed in over 90 juried exhibitions and published in leading art magazines and books.


Words that describe this painting: grapes, glass, bowl, pomegranate, tablecloth, still life, fruits, cloth, pop, acrylicpaint, pop, still life, acrylic painting, pink


Bowl of Grapes...

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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Still-life Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

"AKEE" Oil Painting, Marylyn Dintenfass Modernist Abstract Expressionist Pop Art
Located in Surfside, FL
Provenance: Babcock Galleries (bears their label verso.) signed verso with artists monogram signature. Marylyn Dintenfass (born 1943) is an American painter, printmaker, and sculptor. She is primarily known for her oil paintings, which use a dynamic color palette and lexicon of gestural imagery to explore dualities in the human experience and everyday sensual pleasures. Marylyn Dintenfass was born in 1943 in Brooklyn, New York and spent most of her early years in Brooklyn and then Long Island. She attended Queens College, and graduated in 1965 with a bachelor's degree in Fine Arts. During this time, the artist worked with Abstract Expressionist painter John Ferren and muralist Barse Miller. Marilyn Dintenfass explored new media and developed her own reaction to abstract expressionism with color, line, and gesture. Dintenfass acquired an appreciation for a broad range of materials that led to major sculpture installations composed of ceramic materials, steel, lead, wood, wax and a variety of pigments and epoxies. Following a tour of museums in Amsterdam, Paris and Rome, the artist made her way to Jerusalem in 1966. During this journey, the artist worked with painter Ruth Bamberger, studied etching and mingled with the artists and intellectuals of the city. The result was Dintenfass's first architectural commission, to design the “Pop Op Disco,” Jerusalem's first disco. This commission allowed her to work with an array of materials to employ shapes, surfaces, textures, colors, and lights, all of which coalesced in her consciousness that would become important components of her mature personal visual vocabulary. Dintenfass also married and started her family during these years. Art critic Meredith Mendelsohn writes, “Dintenfass uses luscious colors, repetitive forms, and a gestural intensity that combines Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art.” Dintenfass often works with oil paint on wooden panels fragmented into parts of a grid. "After completing a painting," writes curator and critic Lilly Wei in a study of Dintenfass' work, "Dintenfass literally takes it apart, treating each panel as a discrete entity, exchanging panels between works in an aesthetic mix and match as she searches for interactions and relationships of color and form that satisfy her sense of visual excitement, sparked by the frisson of the dissonant." In an interview with critic Irving Sandler, Dintenfass speaks of the grid as a necessary, formal restraint for the passion of the gestural marks it contains. Joyce Robinson illuminates; “Dintenfass is at heart, though, a painter, and the grid, with its reference to and notion of modular parts, has remained central to her artistic enterprise, functioning as a kind of Apollonian matrix holding in check the exuberant, vividly colored abstractions of this essentially Dionysian artist.” Lilly Wei adds, "Ultimately, however, Dintenfass is more sensualist than theorist, and her paintings owe much of their allure to their materiality and the dazzle of color. Her array of ripe, radiant, saturated hues—a palette of gorgeous diversity—can be silkily smooth and nuanced; boldly exuberant; or edgily, feverishly discordant." The artist's abstract imagery usually appears in her work as various forms of stripes or circles arranged across translucent layers of alternating matte and high gloss textures. In a conversation with gallery owner, John Driscoll, Dintenfass likens these symbols to language that predates the written word, saying her "work relates to communication through the visceral channel." Rooted in autobiography, the artist's paintings also examine the contrast between what she calls the “micro” and the “macro.” At times the shapes simultaneously resemble cells under a microscope and visions of the cosmos. Dintenfass' themes explore the dualities of everyday pleasures; depending on the focus of a series, her symbols might conjure characters, candies, car wheels, or paint itself. Although known for her paintings, Dintenfass was first recognized for her sculptural installations. Her innovative use of mixed media (ceramics, epoxies, wax, pigments, steel, lead, wood, etc.) transformed understanding of what a “ceramic” work of art could be and firmly fixed her position and influence among a generation of mixed media artists expanding the traditional definitions and boundaries of object and materials to create modern art. The results came as architectural reliefs and installation sculpture unique to her organic but structural personal style. Similar to her paintings, Dintenfass developed a modular language of symbols, amalgams of line and curve, which she would combine to create detailed pictographic languages all her own, what she has called “organic alphabets.” As Ted Castle relates, “Ideas are furtive elements, stolen from the matrix, so as to be reformed by human genius into something unforeseen—a poem, a painting, a game of dominoes, a television set, a brick, a tile, a cup. Marylyn Dintenfass is a master of the transformation of ideas into palpable form.” Dintenfass has also been commissioned to create many large-scale installations, including works for the State of Connecticut Superior Courthouse; the Port Authority of NY 42nd Street Bus Terminal; IBM in Atlanta, Charlotte, and San Jose; The Baltimore Federal...
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Early 2000s Abstract Still-life Paintings

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Oil, Panel

Mid Century Jewish Expressionist Oil Painting Floral Vibrant Colorful Flowers
Located in Surfside, FL
Gestural impasto painting of flowers in a vase. 23.5" x 17.5" sight size , 22" x 28" framed hand signed lower right. Born in 1899, Belle Golinko is a listed Jewish mid...
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1950s Expressionist Still-life Paintings

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Oil, Board

"Four Open Pomegranates" watercolor painting of four pomegranates
Located in Edgartown, MA
Wendy Artin is an American contemporary artist who works primarily in watercolor and charcoal. Her work is figurative and classical and explores the timele...
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2010s Still-life Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Sunflower Medley for Blues, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

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A happy and bright still life featuring a handful of sunflowers arranged in a white ceramic vase by artist John Jaster. The vibrant colors of green and yellow i...

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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings

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Acrylic

The End is Near
Located in Salt Lake City, UT
"The End is Near" by Emily Fox King, oil on canvas, 48 x 60 inches (Framed size 50 x 62 inches) "Eckhart Tolle explains that the reason we have a human...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Mixed Flowers and Blue Bird
Located in Milford, NH
An exceptional pastel on paper still life of a vase of flowers, a bowl, and a bird titled "Mixed Flowers and Blue Bird' by Dorothy P. Neaves (American, early 20th c.). Signed lower l...
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Early 20th Century American Impressionist Still-life Paintings

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Paper, Pastel

Little Jar of Sunshine, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

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Vibrant yellow-orange sunflowers on verdant stems, rustically arranged in a small glass jar. Soft light accentuates the curling, pointed ends of the blossoms. Painted on Arches heavyweight oil primed paper, which can be framed with our without glass.


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Words that describe this painting: sunflowers, floral, bouquet, flowers, still life, still life, flora, representational, oil painting, green


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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Oil

"Carrigan", Modern Harvest Still-Life with Autumn Squash
Located in Soquel, CA
Modern expressionist autumn still-life of winter squash harvest by Bay Area artist Michael Pauker (American, b. 1957), c.1970s. Despite the more traditional subject matter, the artis...
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1970s Modern Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

A Woman To Love, Sophie Berger, Original Painting, Floral Landscape Artwork
Located in Deddington, GB
A Woman To Love [2021] original Oil Paint on Canvas Image size: H:100 cm x W:100 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:100 cm x W:100 cm x D:2.5cm Sold Unframed Please note that ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

RENE LEROY - FRENCH MODERNIST STILL LIFE OIL PAINTING - BLAZE OF COLOR
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Rene Leroy (French b. 1932) Title: Abstract/ Modernist study of a still life Medium: oil painting on canvas Size: painting: 7 x 4.75 inches Provenance: all the ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Still-life Paintings

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Oil

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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.

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