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Still-life Paintings For Sale
Style: Contemporary
Style: Post-Impressionist
Moon Full Bright Pocket Painting 5c*, original painting, contemporary
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Bright Full Moon 5c* is an original oil painting by Dani Humberstone as part of her small scale realistic oil paintings, with a nod to baroque still life painting. The paintin...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Wisteria
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Wisteria' watercolor on paper. Gary Bukovnik, who fuses sensual vitality with fluid yet powerful colorations to create floral images of great depth, intensity, and size.
Internatio...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Crocus Purple Pink Pocket Painting, original painting, contemporary
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Purple Pink Crocus is an original oil painting by Dani Humberstone as part of her small scale realistic oil paintings, with a nod to baroque still life painting. The paintings...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
''Bowl with Gold'', Contemporary Still Life Painting with Porcelain Bowl
Located in Utrecht, NL
When you look at this painting "Bowl with Gold" by Dutch artist Sasja Wagenaar (1959) from a distance you see a perfectly painted image, but up close a generous paint streak is visib...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Botanical Illustration of Ripe Pomegranates Triptych, Fruit Tree, Watercolor
Located in Barcelona, ES
"Ripe Pomegranates III" is an illustration style painting by Romina Milano where a dance of gestures unfolds across colorful landscapes.
Romina Milano is an Italian artist renowned...
Category
2010s Fauvist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Watercolor, Paper
Spring Compositions
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Spring Compositions' watercolor on paper. Gary Bukovnik, who fuses sensual vitality with fluid yet powerful colorations to create floral images of great depth, intensity, and size.
...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
20th Century French Modernist Still Life of Oranges & Lemons Fruit Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Still Life of Fruit
Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021)
signed oil on board, framed
framed: 28 x 22 inches
board: 26 x 20 inches
provenance: artists estate, France
condition: very good an...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Arrangement - Contemporary Botanical Still Life Pink Tulips Flowers Vase, 2022
Located in Kent, CT
In this contemporary still life painting in oil on canvas, a dark brown vase on a table holds a bouquet of coral pink anemone flowers with pink tulips and light green stems and leave...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ladybird Pocket Painting 7, original painting, contemporary
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Ladybird 7 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 lif...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Song Sparrow Pocket Painting 2, original painting, contemporary
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Song Sparrow 2 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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Still life of women's shoes and flowers oil on paper painting
By Carmen Espel
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Frame size 75x55 cm.
Contemporary Barcelona painter. She began to present her work on the occasion of the Women's Salons held in her city in 1949 and 1950 (Casa del Libro). He also ...
Category
1980s Post-Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
"Pretty Pickins" Post-Impressionist Colorful Floral Oil Painting on Board Framed
Located in New York, NY
A joyous colorful floral still life painting depicting a bunch of freshly picked flowers placed effortlessly. The piece is done in a highly impressionistic manner and is a wonderful display of Reilly's more impromptu style, with bold colors of joyful yellow, deep rouge, and softer colors of light blue, hints of brown, and pops of pink. White ostrich daisies along with blue bluebells, orange, yellow and mamey flowers on a background of bright green grass and dark bushes in the background. This still life in nature, in the garden from nature. This bouquet reminds us of sunny summer days filled with the scent of flowers and nature. This piece is titled and has artist's estate stamp on the back, it comes housed in a contemporary gold leaf plain air wood frame with hanging wire on verso ready to be displayed.
Art measures 30 x 24 inches
Frame measures 37 x 31 inches
John Reilly is a critically acclaimed and award-winning New Jersey artist, born in Brooklyn, NY in 1942. He received his early art training at the School of Art and Design, formally known as ‘The School of Industrial Art’ in Manhattan, where he studied advertising art. By the age of twenty-three, he operated a mid-town-based sales promotion agency, eventually expanding the business to service large companies such as Bacardi Rum, Johnson and Johnson, Nabisco, and KLM...
Category
Late 20th Century Post-Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Song Sparrow Pocket Painting 2, original painting, contemporary
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Song Sparrow 2 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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Large 1950's French Signed Oil Apple Orchard Rural Field Very Thick Oil
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Marie Louise Eber (French mid 20th century), signed lower front, dated 1958 verso.
Title: "La Serenite", a beautiful Post-Impressionist m...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
EgPear Blush Pocket Painting 6c, original painting, contemporary
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Blush Pear 6c 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 ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Macaw Jungle Collection Pocket Painting, Nature, Animal, Bird Original
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Macaw Jungle Collection 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 baro...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Philosophy of Tea - Still Life Landscape Pink Flowers Table Forest, 2020
Located in Kent, CT
In this landscape oil painting on canvas, a cheerful outdoor scene is set with a still life arrangement of bright pink gladiolus flowers in a clear glass vase beside a smaller orange...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Lime Pocket Painting 2, original painting, contemporary
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Lime 2 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 pa...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
August Still Life - contemporary, floral, still life, acrylic and oil on canvas
By Pat Service
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This delightful, colorful painting of a floral still life illustrates Pat Service’s superb use of color, pattern, texture and form.
Inspired by the classic still life paintings of ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Emerald Rain - Contemporary Still Life Flowers Fruit Landscape Green, 2024
Located in Kent, CT
In this contemporary oil painting on canvas, a bright and inviting interior scene is set with a still life with arrangements of flowers in a vase and a glass pitcher, a pear and lemo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Pear Blush Pocket Painting 7c
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Blush Pear 7c 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 ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Beach with Three Figures
Located in Burlingame, CA
Beach with Three Figures - The painting was created in 2020 by celebrated American realist artist Willard Dixon, who has captured the undeniable beauty of the west for the past 35 ye...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Apple Red Very Very Pocket Painting
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Very Very Red Apple 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 ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Still Life with Calla Lily - Oil on canvas by Ugo Celada da Virgilio - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Still life with Calla Lily is an oil painting on masonite realized by Ugo Celada da Virgilio.
Hand-signed on the lower left.
Provenance: Galerie Sigfrid O...
Category
1940s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
Blush Pear Yellow Pocket Painting, original painting, still-life, contemporary
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Yellow Blush Pear 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 st...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Art et lecture, Abstract Library, Books, French, Expressionism, Contemporary
Located in LANGRUNE-SUR-MER, FR
Sophie Dumont, a contemporary artist of undeniable talent, presents "Art and Reading," an oil painting on canvas measuring 80 x 80 cm (approximately 31.5 x 31.5 inches). This captiva...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Lily Pond at Pana'ewa / oil on canvas painting - 36 x 24 inches
By Peter Loftus
Located in Burlingame, CA
Tranquil tropical lily pond by American Realist nature scene oil painter Peter Loftus who is known for captivating color rich scenes through shadow and light through his oil on canvas paintings that breathe life while reflecting natural western and Hawaiian environments. Lotus's subject matter includes oceans, mountains, babbling brooks, mountain ridges and vistas, as well as people and figures. This beautiful oil painting glows with cool tranquil waters reflecting the tropical palm trees on a pool of floating lotus pads.
Peter Loftus was born in 1948, in Washington DC. He received a BFA in painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art, in 1971. In 1974, Loftus earned an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania. Drawn by the glorious California light, Loftus moved to Santa Cruz in 1975. He has lived and painted there ever since. Loftus taught at both University of California at Santa Cruz and Cabrillo Community College between 1975, through the present (at UCSC). He taught Beginning, Intermediate and Advanced Drawing, and Painting, in both oil and aqueous media.
During that time, he also sustained a rigorous exhibition schedule, showing regularly on the East and West coasts; in New York at Fischbach Gallery, and San Francisco at William Sawyer Gallery and later Hackett-Freedman Gallery. In addition, Loftus has participated in a number of group exhibitions. These include: American Realism: 20th Century Drawings and Watercolors (and accompanying book), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, New Horizons in American Realism: Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI. Loftus is also included in several publications, including: "The Artist as Native: Reinventing Regionalism" by Alan Gussow...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid Century Scottish post impressionist oil painting STILL LIFE OF FLOWERS
Located in Cirencester, GB
ARTIST: Margery Noel Slaney RSW SSA GI (1915-2000) Scottish
TITLE: "Flowers And A Red Scarf"
MEDIUM: oil on board
SIZE: 69cm x 46cm inc frame
NOTES: Artist mainly in oil, full name...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Spring Blossoms, Oil Painting
By Pat Doherty
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A variety of glass vases hold vibrant spring flower arrangements. The mix of colors creates a lively scene and contrasts against the soft, neutral background....
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Anthuriums and Poppies, Fauvist Landscape, Flowers Bouquet, Illustration Style
Located in Barcelona, ES
"Anthuriums and Poppies" is an illustration style painting of exotic flowers bouquet. Red flowers, expressionist gestures, and intricate textures come together in this artwork to cr...
Category
2010s Fauvist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Watercolor
Blue Spruce by Shirley Lewis Large Square Contemporary Blue Painting on Canvas
Located in Atlanta, GA
Blue Spruce by Shirley Lewis is a serene and sophisticated mixed media painting that captures the quiet beauty of nature through a contemporary lens. Measuring 40 x 40 inches, this original work features soft layers of blues, greens, and neutral tones that subtly reference botanical and woodland forms with a modern, abstract twist.
Perfectly scaled for intimate spaces or layered gallery walls, Blue Spruce brings calm, texture, and visual interest to any interior. Ideal for collectors of abstract landscapes or designers seeking a nature-inspired piece with a minimalist feel, this painting adds a refined organic element to bedrooms, offices, or transitional spaces.
Blue Spruce is an elegant, one-of-a-kind original that balances tranquility with sophisticated artistry.
Shirley’s love of creating came at an early age. She learned many of her techniques from the time she spent with her depression-era grandmother, making artistic statements from items found. Working with various mediums over the past 25 years, she has developed a unique way to manipulate ink and color movement, using traditional and non-traditional artistic tools.
Interpreting nature in its various spectrums, Shirley’s paintings and the techniques used allow the colors to organically blend and take their shape. With spontaneous composition, each painting creates magnificent imagery, allowing for multiple interpretations. The looseness in the process demands a layering of complex colors, yet the results are intended.
botanical abstract painting
blue spruce inspired artwork
nature-themed abstract
40 x 40 canvas painting
organic neutral art...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
Stacked Meringues, Oil Painting
By Pat Doherty
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Meringue cookies stack together, each one delectable and delightful. Their crisp exterior and rich tones come to life against the soft, yellow background. Thi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Original Oil Abstract Still Life with Cheese Slices and Knife
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Original Oil Abstract Still Life with Cheese Slices and Knife
Artist: Roland Pichard
Medium: Oil on oil paper, mounted on card
Size: 9.5 (height) x 13.25 (width), (Includin...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
fruit still life original oil on canvas painting
By Lluis Mercader
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Lluís Mercader (Barcelona, 1898 - 1959) was a Spanish painter. Trained in Paris and Munich, he exhibited individually at the Dalmau Galleries in Barcelona (1925) and collectively ...
Category
1950s Fauvist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Doh-nut (with sprinkles) Pocket Series, original painting, still-life
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Doh-nut (with sprinkles) 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 bar...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Roses- 21st Century Contemporary Acrylic Painting by Dutch Mitzy Renooy
By Mitzy Renooy
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
This strong painting 'Roses' is made by Dutch artist Mitzy Renooy.
Her well-performed yet loose touch allows light on the places that matter. With this she shows the essence of the ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Bull Pocket Painting, original painting, contemporary
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Bull 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 pain...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique shop. Original painting
Located in Zofingen, AG
This surreal collage gives me a sense of play and admiration. The outline of the human figure adds intimacy to the composition. The value of things, their lines and shapes, seem to p...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Peaches and Stems - Contemporary Still Life Tulips Fruit Flowers Dining, 2022
Located in Kent, CT
In this contemporary painting in oil on canvas, a bright and inviting interior scene is set with a still life arrangement of red tulips beside a light green pitcher, peaches and pears on a yellow checkered table...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Champs de fleurs - Post Impressionist Landscape Oil by Jacques Martin-Ferrieres
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
A simply beautiful oil on canvas circa 1950 by French post-impressionist painter Jacques Martin-Ferrieres. The work is of a field filled with bright flowers in all shades of red, lil...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Natures First Green is Golden - Abstract Expressionist Neutral Beige Floral
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Georgia-based artist Kellie Newsome specializes in abstract paintings with a sense of fluidity. Her expressive style emphasizes large flowers, organic shapes and loose brushstrokes i...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Nocturnal Nature: Painted Cyanotype Still Life of Hibiscus and Rose on Indigo
Located in Hudson, NY
Hand-painted cyanotype still life of pink flowers on indigo with custom frame
Nocturnal Nature (Double Hibiscus, Rose) — painted cyanotype by Julia Whitney Barnes
2024
watercolor, go...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
India Ink, Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper
Flying Aster - Contemporary Still Life Fruit Botanical Bright Red Blue Table
Located in Kent, CT
In this contemporary oil painting on canvas, a dining room interior scene is vibrant and colorful with an arrangement of flowers in a painted vase next to blue and white China teapot...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Garden Wall (30 x 30 inch oil painting on birch wood panel)
Located in Oakland, CA
This is the silhouette of a Japanese aralia (paperplant, false castor oil plant, fatsia japonica). The big leaves have nine lobes and spread out wide.
The sky is painted a pale peac...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Birch, Oil, Wood Panel
Arezzo Garden Square - Yellow Red Chrysanthemum Flowers Fruit Still Life, 2019
Located in Kent, CT
In this contemporary still life painting in oil on canvas, a clear glass vase holds bright lush chrysanthemum blossoms in coral red and pink beside orange and yellow fruits in a frui...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Illustration Style Still Life Painting of Pink Dragon Fruit Tree, Botanical Art
Located in Barcelona, ES
"Dragon Fruit Bush" is an abstract expressionist painting by Romina Milano where a dance of black gestures unfolds across colorful brushstrokes infused with raw emotion.
Romina Mil...
Category
2010s Fauvist Still-life Paintings
Materials
India Ink, Acrylic, Rag Paper
Crocus Purple Pink Pocket Painting, original painting, contemporary
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Purple Pink Crocus is an original oil painting by Dani Humberstone as part of her small scale realistic oil paintings, with a nod to baroque still life painting. The paintings...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Red Fiesta, Bright Orange, Red Still Life, Grapes, Lemons, Blue and White Vase
Located in Kent, CT
A bright and inviting interior scene with a still life arrangement of lemons in a blue and white painted fruit bowl beside a green, leafy plant in a blue and white vase on a striped,...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The well read girl, reading- 21st Century Contemporary Figure Painting
By Martin Koole
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Martin Koole
The Well Read Girl, reading
120 x 120 cm ( framed 124 x 124 cm)
Acryl on canvas
Martin Koole's paintings are distinguished from the work of other painters by his very h...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Cotton Canvas
French, 20th Century still life of grapes, apples and tea cup by Boris Buchet
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Boris Buchet (French, 1917 – 1999)
Grapes, apples, tea cup and a tea pot
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated ‘B. Buchet.60’ (lower right)
13 x 16.1/4 in. (33 x 41 cm.)
Category
20th Century Post-Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Primavera II- 21st Century Contemporary Dutch Still-life of Flowers
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Primavera II
49 x 50 cm
Framed in a black wooden frame: 52 x 62 cm
Oil paint on wood panel
Dutch artist, painter, Adriana van Zoest, lives and works in Warmenhuizen, in the North of...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
"Lanternes du Japon" Olio cm. 46 x 38 1910 ca
Located in Torino, IT
Luminoso quadro con mazzo di fiori arancioni su fondo verde
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Plywood
Monkey Dream
Located in Columbia, MO
Marie Gardeski grew up in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She received her BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art and her MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art, and currently lives i...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Graphite, Archival Paper
Vase with Tulips - 21st Century Contemporary Still-Life by Ronald Soeliman
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
The studio of this extravert painter is outside. Everywhere the light is, there you can find Ronald Soeliman. The work of Ronald Soeliman caught us immediately because of the colors....
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Roses in Vase 1960’s French Post Impressionist Oil Painting Interior Scene
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Roses in Vase
by Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
signed oil painting on canvas, framed
framed: 29 x 20 inches
canvas: 22 x 13 inches
very good conditio...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Multi-Divided Lemon, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A cut-up lemon rests on a muted surface, its interior revealing various color changes. The light and shadow emphasize the fruit's vibrant yellow skin and fles...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Red Cactus Flower
Located in Stockholm, SE
A fauvist still life painting of a red cactus flower by Agda Holst (1886-1976). Oil on panel, signed Agda Holst. Probably painted somewhere around 1912-1920 when she had returned to Sweden after her studies abroad. It is painted on a Swedish panel...
Category
Early 20th Century Fauvist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Picturesque Botany (Still Life Painting of Pink Roses on Dark Blue, Gold Frame)
Located in Hudson, NY
Realistic still life painting of bright flowers on dark blue
Hand-painted cyanotype by Julia Whitney Barnes
"Picturesque Botany (Rose, Morning Glory, Hellebore, Crocus, Pollinators, ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
India Ink, Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper
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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.
On 1stDibs, find a collection of still-life paintings in a wide range of styles and subject matter.