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Still-life Paintings For Sale
Yellow Rose. Original oil painting
Located in Zofingen, AG
Technique (canvas handmade)
The picture was painted with a palette knife and a brush on canvas . (handmade)
I've poured my heart into this canvas, creating a vibrant dance of color...
Category
2010s Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Zen Garden - bright, floral, impasto, abstract expressionist, acrylic on canvas
By Adam Cohen
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Rendered in pink, lemon, green, and blue this abstract painting with a floral motif is by Adam Cohen.
Thickly applied expressive brushstrokes in a bright palette bring a palpable energy to this lively, joyful painting that resembles a floral tapestry.
Cohen likes to cut into wet paint with a palette knife to create visible texture.
Pink, lemon, green, and blue flower petals overlap one another in a luscious visual display.
“… I like abstract painting. I can create accidents. And then I can edit in or out what I like. Use them as a springboard. A place to build the rest of the painting around. I create paintings that feel deeply personal to me. Somehow I always know when they are done.” Adam Cohen
“A painting by Adam Cohen is like a sudden burst of light. Vision is dazzled by a surface alive with color, swarming with incident. As you approach the canvas, it feels as if it were coming forward to meet you, to immerse you in a field of visual energy.” Carter Ratcliff, Art Critic
Adam Cohen studied at Philadelphia’s Tyler School of Art and lived and painted in Rome for a year. After many successful years as an illustrator in NYC, he returned to his first love...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
1950's French Modernist Signed Oil - Colorful Fruit against dark background
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: French School, circa 1951, signed with initials and stamped reverse.
Title: Modernist still life coffee pot and fruit
Medium: oil...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Slow Rise, " Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Eric G. Thompson's "Slow Rise" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a red clay teacup steaming with warmth with a cast shadow on the silver background.
About the Artist:
Eric G. Thompson captures stillness. He captures moments. Whether he is painting in oil, egg tempera or watercolor, he is seeking to evoke a haunting memory, a lost feeling. In a fast-paced world of deadlines, obligations and busyness, Eric invites you into the peace that he has enveloped within this momentary glimpse in time. Believing that we all seek silence, without even realizing it, he implores you to dwell on something you otherwise would have overlooked, or have long-forgotten. Literally and figuratively, he sheds light into the attics of our lives, even if it is just to awaken a feeling buried deep within the viewer.
A major influence on Eric’s work is the Japanese aesthetic of wabi-sabi, an appreciation of imperfection, age and patina, often referred to as “flawed beauty.” Balance and light are also key elements found in every painting he creates. Like the characters of the objects, figures and houses Eric paints, his technique has been refined through life experience. He is completely self-taught, and believes this process has led him to find a unique voice and vision, through perseverance, trial and error. A painter since 1989, Eric now resides in Salt Lake City, Utah and has been selling his work professionally since 2002. He paints from his travels and the treasures discovered along the way, and he chooses his medium based on the mood he wishes to convey.
Eric will continue to paint, evoking our memories, shedding light on the beauty and solitude of ordinary moments once forgotten, now glorified before us in fluid brushstrokes. Eric seeks to find greatness in the most humble of subject matter, illustrated by Elbert...
Category
2010s Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Silver
Peonies 1965, oil on cardboard, 70x58 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Ingrida Kalns (1910-1984)
Peonies
1965, oil on cardboard, 70x58 cm
Category
1960s Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Sticker Painting
Located in Jersey City, NJ
Mixed-Media / Stickers / Illustration / Pop and Contemporary Pop / Human Figure / Chess / Comic Books / Video Games / Resin / Drawing / Representations of Everyday Objects / Figurative Art / Pop Art
From Macauley Norman's solo exhibition, CRYPTIC CLUTTER, "Sticker Painting" is an incredible and unique resin coated pop surrealist painting featuring well over 70 gel pen drawings on sticker paper affixed to a wood panel painted in oil and acrylic paint. Among the illustration images are a panoply of pop culture references from the Eastern, Western, Northern and Southern hemispheres -- birds and other animals, landscapes, UFOs, food items, nineties-era pornography, vehicles, yin yang symbols, skulls, daggers, a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Epoxy Resin, Plastic, Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel, Archival Ink
Edifices of Knowledge, Abstract Library, Geometric, Contemporary, Oil, Books
Located in LANGRUNE-SUR-MER, FR
Sophie Dumont is a world-renowned artist whose work has captivated audiences globally. Her unique and evocative paintings have earned her a prominent place in the art world, with exh...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Superb Antique American Framed Fruit Table Still Life Nuts & Wine Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Incredible early American realist still life by John F. Francis (1808 - 1886). Oil on canvas. Incredible detail and masterfully painted. Museum provenance. Unsigned. Measuring 2...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Elegant Still Life of Two Gold Metal Cups on Patterned Fabric" Realism Oil
Located in Wellesley, MA
"Elegant Still Life of Two Gold Metal Cups on Patterned Fabric," 24 x 24 Inches.
Look carefully and you will see the artist at work in the studio reflected in the sparkling surfaces...
Category
2010s Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Strawberry and Cream - Vibrant Southwest Inspired Pop Art Painting
By Will Beger
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Will Beger and his contemporary-minimalist paintings, take on an entirely unique approach to southwest art. Influenced by his youth and inspired by nature, he effortlessly captures a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Mid-Century Australian Still life of flowers in an Asian bowl
Located in Woodbury, CT
Allan Hansen, Still life of of Japonica.
Hansen was a painter of many different subjects during the middle to end period of the 20th century. He painted many still lives and this...
Category
1960s Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Still Life with Flowers, Fruit and Pumpkins, XVIIth - XVIIIth century
Located in Milan, IT
Oil painting on canvas. Lombard school of the late 17th-early 18th century. The rich composition offers a large bouquet of colorful flowers in an embossed vase, next to two large pumpkins and mixed fruit (grapes and peaches...
Category
Late 17th Century Other Art Style Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Lamp Revisited, Still Life with Lamp on Dark Brown Mahogany Wooden Desk
Located in Kent, CT
In this quiet still life painting, a single lamp with a yellowed lamp shade stands atop a dark brown mahogany wooden desk with gray metal handles on the drawer. The object and furnit...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
French Modernist Gouache Painting Of Red Tulips In A Yellow Watering Can
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
by Paul-Louis Bolot (French 1918-2003)
signed
original gouache painting on thick paper/ card
unframed
condition: very good and sound; the edges have a few curls and scuffs/ edge tear...
Category
20th Century Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Landscape no. 1, 2021
By John Goodman
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Landscape No. 1, 2021' by John Goodman. Oil on panel is 9 x 12 inches and is professionally framed in maple wood with an outside dimension of 10 x 13 inches. Condition is new. Artis...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Rose-Red Anemones - 21st Century Contemporary Still-life by Ingrid Smuling
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Ingrid Smuling is a new face for Galerie Bonnard, from November 2017 we have her work in our gallery. This new artist at Galerie Bonnard has long since ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Rulin Xian Still Life Original Oil On Canvas "Full Buket Series VI"
Located in New York, NY
Title: Full Buket Series VI
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 12 x 11.5 inches
Frame: Framing options available!
Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition.
Note: T...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sunflower 50X40
Located in Zofingen, AG
In this piece, I've explored the juxtaposition of life's ephemerality and enduring warmth. The sunflower, despite its wilting state, is a vibrant focal point that offers a moment of ...
Category
2010s Expressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Eucalyptus
Located in Burlingame, CA
A lone eucalyptus tree stands tall in this vertical atmospheric landscape painting that features sunlit green grass, rolling purple hills and a hazy sky. A stunning work of original ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Still Life with Fruits", Large, Early 20th Century Oil on Canvas by Celso Lagar
By Celso Lagar
Located in Madrid, ES
CELSO LAGAR
Spanish, 1891 - 1966
STILL LIFE OF FRUITS
signed "Lagar" lower left
oil on canvas
29-3/4 x 38 inches (75 x 96 cm.)
framed: 33-1/2 x 41-3/4 inches (84.5 x 105.5 cm.)
PROVENANCE
Private French Collector
Celso Lagar Arroyo (Ciudad Rodrigo, 1891 - Seville, 1966) was an expressionist Spanish painter of the first generation of the School of Paris, where he lived most of his life. He was influenced by avant-gardes of all kinds, such as cubism and fovism. He painted mainly landscapes and still lifes...
Category
Early 20th Century Expressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Cosmos Rising" contemporary oil painting of pink flowers in tall grass, framed
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Cosmos Rising" is an impressionist oil on canvas painting by Sag Harbor-based painter Maryann Lucas. It depicts a patch of pink flowers growing tall in a swath of green grass under ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen, Panel
'Still Life of Flowers in a Jug', School of Paris, French Post-Impressionist oil
By Frank Gebhart
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A substantial, mid-century oil showing sunflowers informally arranged in a glass vase. An accomplished tonalist work with delicate color and animated, calligraphic brush-work showing...
Category
1960s Post-Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Summer meadows
Located in Riga, LV
Valery Baida was born in 1958 in Russia. From 1983 to 1989 he studied at the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography at the Faculty of Arts. Taken part in exhibitions since 1983....
Category
2010s Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Blue Flowers on Purple Table 20th Century British Modernist Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Blue Flowers, Purple Table
by Helen Greenfield (British 20th century)
oil painting on board, unframed
board: 20 x 14 inches
condition: overall very go...
Category
20th Century Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Montbretia Above New Quay, Rupert Aker, Original Coastal Landscape Painting
By Rupert Aker
Located in Deddington, GB
Montbretia above New Quay [2020]
original
Oil on canvas
Image size: H:20 cm x W:20 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:20 cm x W:20 cm x D:2cm
Framed Size: H:23 cm x W:23 cm x D...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Modernist Southwest Cactus Still Life Framed Signed Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Wonderful early American modernist cactus still life oil painting. Framed. Oil on canvas. Signed. Image size, 20H by 24L.
Category
1960s Abstract Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Still-life Flower Paint Oil on canvas Old master 17th Century Lombard school
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Francesca Volò Smiller, called Vincenzina (Milan, 1657 - 1700) - circle of
Floral composition
Oil on canvas (97 x 72 cm. - in octagonal frame 100 x 84 cm.)
A rich floral compositio...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Rulin Xian Still Life Original Oil On Canvas "Fallen Buket Series III"
Located in New York, NY
Title: Fallen Buket Series III
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 12 x 11.5 inches
Frame: Framing options available!
Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition.
Note...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French, 20th Century still life of wine, pots, apples, orange by Boris Buchet
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Boris Buchet (French, 1917 – 1999)
A bottle of wine, kitchen pots, apples and oranges
Oil on board
Signed and dated ‘B.Buchet 72’ (lower left)
21.1/8 x 28.5/8 in. (53.6 x 73 cm.)
Category
20th Century Post-Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
British Abstraction oil on paperboard Alec Cumming, Vase, Blue Orange Black
Located in Norfolk, GB
Artist: Alec Cumming
Title: Forms Inside the Moment
Medium: oil on paper
Size: 69cm x 99cm (27” x 38”)
Year: 2016
Alec Cumming
Exhibited at Alec Cumming...
Category
2010s Abstract Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Rag Paper
19th Century still life oil painting of fruit
Located in Nr Broadway, Worcestershire
Alfred Arthur Brunel de Neuville
French, (1852-1941)
Still Life of Fruit in a Basket
Oil on canvas, signed
Image size: 14.5 inches x 17.5 inches
Size including frame: 23.25 inches x ...
Category
19th Century Victorian Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage French Impressionist Signed Oil Pink & Yellow Roses in Vase
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: French Impressionist School, circa 1930's, indistinctly signed lower right corner
Title: Still life of roses in a vase (yellow, pink, reds)
Medium: oil on canvas, u...
Category
1930s Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
1950’s French Expressionist Signed Oil Still Life Lemons Oranges on Table
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French expressionist artist, 1955
signed oil painting on canvas, framed
dated 55'
framed: 22 x 29 inches
canvas: 15 x 22 inches
provenance: private collection, France
condition: ove...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Bouquet with sunflower
Located in Oslo, NO
This artwork exudes a strikingly vibrant elegance, showcasing a mesmerizing still life arrangement. Dominating the composition is a large, radiant sunflower, its warm yellow petals u...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Still-life Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
"Cherry Jubilee" (2024) By Tammi Otis, Original Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
"Cherry Jubilee" (2024) by Tammi Otis is an original handmade oil painting that depicts a bright red cherry on an abstract green background.
Artist Statement:
b. 1964 - Huntington...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
20th Century French Modernist Oil Painting Still Life Objects
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French School, 20th century
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas: 24 x 18 inches
provenance: private collection
condition: very good and sound condition
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Christmas souvenir 80X80 oil painting
Located in Zofingen, AG
In this oil painting, I've poured my soul into capturing the warmth and vitality of the holiday spirit. Each stroke embodies the lush richness of the red petals, contrasting with th...
Category
2010s Expressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The sea bay. Impressionism.Landscape" Volskaya Lily
Located in Zofingen, AG
The sea bay. Impressionism.Landscape" Volskaya Lilya.Size: 50x60cm, oil on canvas, lacquer.
The landscape is painted in bright colors. Blue, blue, turquoise are the colors of summer...
Category
2010s Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Lacquer, Oil
Paradise Pond. An oil landscape in the style of the Nayiv Volsky Lilya
Located in Zofingen, AG
Paradise Pond. An oil landscape in the style of the Nayiv Volsky Lily. In our fantasies, there are corners or places where we want to come again and again. I decided to share my plac...
Category
2010s Pop Art Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Lacquer, Oil
FLOWERS - Lorenzo Renzi - Oil on Canvas Italian Still Life Painting
Located in Napoli, IT
Flowers - Oil on canvas cm.100x80, Lorenzo Renzi, Italy, 2003
The painting recalls the works of the Neapolitan painter Gasparo Lopez dei Fiori in its pic...
Category
Early 2000s Italian School Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled (Abstract Still Life with Flowers and Fruit)
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002)
Title: Untitled (Abstract Still Life with Flowers and Fruit)
Year: 1963
Medium: Watercolor on heavy archival paper
Size: 11.5 x 15 inches
Condition: Go...
Category
1960s Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Foxglove, 24x12" oil on board
By Lu Haskew
Located in Loveland, CO
Foxglove by Lu Haskew
Oil Still Life of blue, pink and white flowers
24x12" image size
30x18" framed
Shipping price includes the custom packing necessary for safe transport of fine ...
Category
Early 2000s American Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Large 1950's French Post-Impressionist Signed Oil - Bright Flowers Green & Blue
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
''Fleurs"
by Édouard Righetti (1924-2001)
Signed lower front and back, 1959.
oil painting on canvas, beautifully painted with rick thick impasto oil and bold colors of deep greens...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Dahlia and Daisies by Millie Gosch, Framed Flowers Oil Still-Life Painting
By Millie Gosch
Located in Atlanta, GA
Unframed this piece is 8 x 8
Millie Gosch is an avid plein air painter who paints studies from real life and from these studies she creates her beautiful landscape pieces. An exper...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Mid-Century Modern Swedish Expressive Still Life Oil Painting - Basket of Fruit
Located in Bristol, GB
BASKET OF FRUIT
Size: 61 x 69.5 cm (including frame)
Oil on board
An expressive and charming mid century still life composition, executed in oil onto board.
The painting captures a...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
A rustic chapel, natural earth tones, devotional objects and saint figures
Located in Norwich, GB
Here is your chance to have your own private chapel with devotional objets and saint figures - in the form of this lovely painting by Joseph Bergès (1878-1956).
Berges was born in the South East of France in the Pyrenees, not far from the Spanish border.
After studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Toulouse, he was accepted at the Paris Academy. However, although his career took him to Paris, a remained very much attached to his homeland, a pious, rustic area with many chapel such as the one he portrayed here.
Having studied with the Masters Eugène Cormon and Léon Bonnat , Bergès exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français from 1907.
He was obtained a second Grand Prix de Rome in 1908 for the painting The Death...
Category
1930s Pointillist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Framed 20th Century Oil - Flowers in a Terracotta Pot
Located in Corsham, GB
This captivating still life depicts a vibrant floral arrangement in a rustic terracotta pot. The loose, impressionistic brushstrokes bring life to the delicate purple and white flowe...
Category
20th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Untitled (Abstract Still Life with Flowers and Fruit)
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002)
Title: Untitled (Abstract Still Life with Flowers and Fruit)
Year: 1963
Medium: Watercolor on heavy archival paper
Size: 29.5 x 21 inches
Condition: Go...
Category
1960s Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Georg Hoffmann - Framed Mid 20th Century Oil, Still Life with Red Flowers
Located in Corsham, GB
An impressionist still life by the German artist Georg Hoffmann. The scene depicts a vibrant arrangement of red flowers in a blue and white ceramic vase. The artist has signed to the...
Category
20th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Erwin Steinhauser (1939-2023) - Acrylic, Water Lilies Under The Willow
Located in Corsham, GB
Unsigned. Presented in a white frame. On canvas.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Collection of Dolls, Birds, Shells, Marbles, Toys
Located in Grand Rapids, MI
Deborah Jones (British, 1921 - 2012)
Signed: Deborah Jones (Lower, Center)
Collection of Dolls, 1961
Oil on Canvas
30" x 20"
Housed in a 2" Frame
Overa...
Category
Mid-20th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Erwin Steinhauser (1939-2023) - 20th Century Oil, Water Lilies with Orange
Located in Corsham, GB
In the style of Monet. Signed with a monogram. On canvas.
Category
20th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Erwin Steinhauser (1939-2023) - 1997 Acrylic, Water Lilies In Morning Light
Located in Corsham, GB
Inspired by Monet. Signed and dated. Presented in a silver-gilt frame. On board.
Category
20th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Daisies by the Back Door - Farm Landscape with Flowers in Oil on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
Calm farm scene of a bucket filled with daisies by an unknown artist (20th Century). In the background a brick barn has a door open, with weeds and plants growing in front of it. A p...
Category
Late 20th Century Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fine Antique British Botanical Painting Orange Blossom
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
1950’s French Impressionist Signed Oil Pink Roses Paris still life gilt frame
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Mary Ribelli ( French, mid 20th century)
signed oil painting on board, framed
inscribed verso
framed: 23.5 x 20 inches
board: 17 x 15 inches
provenance: private collection, France
c...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Qiqi Jia Contemporary Original Acrylic On Canvas "Flowers and Leaves"
Located in New York, NY
Title: Flowers and Leaves
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 23 x 16 inches
Frame: Framing options available!
Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition.
Note: This ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Mid Century Roses and Apple Blossoms Floral Still Life
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous mid century floral still life in soft spring palette with roses and apple blossoms by J. Herron (American, 20th Century), circa 1960. Signed lower right. Unframed. Image siz...
Category
1960s American Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
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.