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Still-life Paintings For Sale
Style: Contemporary
Style: Street Art
London Warming III, Original painting, London, Cityscape
By Sarah Adams
Located in Deddington, GB
Depiction from the Thames Path of Tower Bridge painted in shocking neons to capture the hot, hot, summer
Acrylic paint on Canvas
10 H x 15 W x 2 D cm (3.94 x 5.91 x 0.79 in)
Sold unf...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Untitled - Orquid, nature, figurative oil painting, film negatives, blue & black
Located in Ciudad de México, MX
Using pure oil paint, which gives the artwork its unique texture, the artist manages to use two particularly difficult colors to work with: black and blue. In his composition, he cre...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Carrot Cupcake, Oil Painting
By Pat Doherty
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A carrot cupcake with cream cheese frosting, topped with marzipan, serves as a delightful treat in this still-life painting. Artist Pat Doherty draws inspiratio...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Abstract Flowers III" Oil Painting 24" x 21" inch by Ashraf Zamzami
Located in Culver City, CA
"Abstract Flowers III" Oil Painting 24" x 21" inch by Ashraf Zamzami
ABOUT
A characteristically bold and optimistic palette does not belie the inescapably pensive nature and at time...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Afternoon View - Original Surrealist Still Life Animal Painting
By Amy Tai
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Capturing fragments of dreams, memories, and emotions in her surrealist paintings, Taiwanese-American artist Amy Tai blends cultures within her soft and sensua...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Delph II, unframed oil pastel study
By Roy Wilce
Located in Loveland, CO
Delph II by Roy Wilce
Oil Pastel Monoprint on Archival Paper, signed lower right
image 3x4", paper size is 15"x12",
unframed, ships flat
Colorful little section of three delphinium...
Category
1990s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Oil Pastel
The Cowboy
Located in Denver, CO
My paintings operate in a fictitious world that utilizes the mythologies and realities of the modern American West. Because of its unique history, the Western United States is more t...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Super Bowl 4 - (16.5"x14.5" - Framed, Still Life Painting, Brown, Black, White)
Located in Mississauga, Ontario
This still life painting captures the simplicity of the bowl, an everyday object with the ability of representing a story. Emphasis is placed on composition with the use of positive ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Pencil, Color Pencil
Red Sky at Night, Scottish Painting, Tree Art, Douglas Fir Tree Painting
Located in Deddington, GB
Red sky at night by Rebecca Tucker [2021]
Additional information
Acrylic on wooden panel
Image size: H:61 cm x W:61 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:61 cm x W:61 cm x D:2cm
Sold...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Wood Panel
Zegen Blessing Oil Painting on Canvas Flowers Still Life Bouquet
By Juane Xue
Located in Utrecht, NL
Zegen Blessing Oil Painting on Canvas Flowers Still Life Bouquet In Stock
Juane Xue (Hui Xue, Kaiffeng, China, 1962) has been drawing since her childhood.
This helped her to go to t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Super Bowl 1 - (16.5"x14.5" - Framed, Still Life Painting, Brown, Black, White)
Located in Mississauga, Ontario
This still life painting captures the simplicity of the bowl, an everyday object with the ability of representing a story. Emphasis is placed on composition with the use of positive ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Pencil, Color Pencil
Talavera Composition 2
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Talavera Composition 2' by master watercolorist Gary Bukovnik, who fuses sensual vitality with fluid yet powerful colorations to create floral images of great depth, intensity, and ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Deborah Bigeleisen - Illuminata 12, Painting 2015
Located in Greenwich, CT
Having started my career by painting Rembrandt-like portraits of luminous white roses, I credit my discovery of fractals for transforming my artistic vision, and changing the directi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Oil
Talavera Composition 1
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Talavera Composition 1' by master watercolorist Gary Bukovnik, who fuses sensual vitality with fluid yet powerful colorations to create floral images of great depth, intensity, and ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Floral Portrait
By Minas Halaj
Located in La Canada Flintridge, CA
Artist signed lower left., and artist certificate is included.
The painting size is 13.75" H by 10.75"W, oil on board.
Floral Portrait" by Minas Halaj is a captivating masterpiece ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Pink Peonies by Anne Harney, Contemporary Floral Painting with Black and Blue
By Anne Harney
Located in Atlanta, GA
Anne Harney is a representational painter beginning her work from observation and concluding with a mix of imagination. “I prefer to begin my work from life. My landscape paintings u...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
Yellow Still Life by Viola Frey (NP#5016)
By Viola Frey
Located in Morton Grove, IL
VIOLA FREY (1933-2004)
Rare Yellow Still Life
1966
oil on canvas, signed 'V. Frey' lower right
34 x 44in (86.3 x 111.8cm)
Provenance- The Nevica Project, Ch...
Category
1960s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Three Protector Shield Original Kevin Red Star Native American Crow Indian Art
Located in Whitefish, MT
"Three Protector Shield" by Kevin Red Star. It was thought that the Crows' shields had powerful spirits that protected them and allowed them to win so many battles. This warriors' medicine was the horse. Acrylic, Mixed Media on Canvas, 16" x 20", 19" x 23" (framed in a deep floater frame).
Kevin Red Star’s art is honored throughout Native America for its authenticity. It presents a shining vision of centuries-old Crow...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Deborah Bigeleisen - Untitled No. 26, diptych, Painting 2011
Located in Greenwich, CT
My work with Fractals takes the literal definition - ‘the self-repeating properties found within a single object of nature’ – and broadens the principles to how nature repeats itself...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Oil
Bouquet, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Fully bloomed white roses flourish in the bright sunlight. Resting on a bed of lush green leaves, the soft edges of their petals display their delicate nature. ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Delacroix's Window
Located in Westport, CT
"My life as a painter began in the late 1950s when abstraction was “The only game in town”. I followed and progressed through gesture, organic and finally, geometric non-objective painting. The radical move for me was to discover that the real world of landscape lurked behind all that past work. My childhood in the mountains of Pennsylvania pervaded my “way of seeing” and I wanted to investigate and celebrate the infinite variety of tone, color and composition that I found around me. Sky, the structure of trees, mist and water appeared to fill a hunger to look again and again. There was mystery and danger lurking behind the beauty, and my aim was to try to avoid the cliché and explore the infinite structure of the visual landscape. Now I use my camera as a sketchbook and search for images that seem to offer odd structure and “mystery”. I shoot multiple points of view, cull, crop, and mostly discard. The surviving photographs become the catalyst for the paintings and the process is always a mediation between memory and the small image pinned to my easel...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Used Monuments
Located in Denver, CO
My paintings operate in a fictitious world that utilizes the mythologies and realities of the modern American West. Because of its unique history, the Western United States is more t...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Abstract Flowers II" Oil Painting 35" x 24" inch by Ashraf Zamzami
Located in Culver City, CA
"Abstract Flowers II" Oil Painting 35" x 24" inch by Ashraf Zamzami
ABOUT
A characteristically bold and optimistic palette does not belie the inescapably pensive nature and at times...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Green River
By Peter Loftus
Located in Burlingame, CA
‘Green River’ oil painting by American Realist artist Peter Loftus, who is known for captivating breathtaking color-rich nature scenes through shadow and light in his oil on canvas p...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Untitled #2
Located in Dallas, TX
David Pryor Adickes born January 1927, Huntsville, Texas) is a modernist sculptor and painter. His most famous work is the 67-foot tall A Tribute to Courage statue of Sam Houston in...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
A River Runs Through It
By Peter Loftus
Located in Burlingame, CA
‘A River Runs Through It’ oil painting by American Realist artist Peter Loftus, who is known for captivating breathtaking color-rich nature scenes through shadow and light in his oil...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Big Momma's Still Life #2
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Big Momma's Still Life #2
Oil pastel on rag paper, 2007
Signed by the artist lower left: "Sedrick Huckaby III" (see photo)
Sheet size: 16 x 12 1/8 inches
Frame: 28 x 24 inches
Exhibi...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel
Autumn Reflections no. 2
By Peter Loftus
Located in Burlingame, CA
‘Autumn Reflections no. 2’ oil painting by American Realist artist Peter Loftus, who is known for captivating breathtaking color-rich nature scenes through shadow and light in his oi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Caples Lake with Sun and Clouds
By Peter Loftus
Located in Burlingame, CA
‘Caples Lake with Sun and Clouds’ oil painting by American Realist artist Peter Loftus, who is known for captivating breathtaking color-rich nature scenes through shadow and light in...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Delight or Disgust" Jell-o motif, images of food, glassware
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Delight or Disgust" is an original artwork by Angela Rio and is made of acrylic on masonite, framed in artist-made oak wood. This piece measures 18”h x 24”w framed...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Acrylic, Oak
Kiawe at Hilo Bay
By Peter Loftus
Located in Burlingame, CA
‘Kiawe at Hilo Bay’ oil painting by American Realist artist Peter Loftus, who is known for captivating breathtaking color-rich nature scenes through shadow and light in his oil on ca...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Snow Above Emerald Bay
By Peter Loftus
Located in Burlingame, CA
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 w...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Snowy Field with Aspens
By Peter Loftus
Located in Burlingame, CA
‘Snowy Field with Aspens’ oil painting by American Realist artist Peter Loftus, who is known for captivating breathtaking color-rich nature scenes through shadow and light in his oil...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Pink Peonies in Glass Vase by Anne Harney, Contemporary Floral Painting and blue
By Anne Harney
Located in Atlanta, GA
Anne Harney is a representational painter beginning her work from observation and concluding with a mix of imagination. “I prefer to begin my work from life. My landscape paintings u...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
Elly's Drawing, Art on Studio Wall, Plumb Bob Pendulum, Wooden Table
Located in Kent, CT
In this quiet still life painting, a drawing on paper of a sketched plant in a simple pot is taped with blue tape to a white wall with gray marks, while a plumb bob, an artist's tool...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Lili'Uokalani Gardens no. 2
By Peter Loftus
Located in Burlingame, CA
‘Lili'Uokalani Gardens no. 2’ oil painting by American Realist artist Peter Loftus, who is known for captivating breathtaking color-rich nature scenes through shadow and light in his...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
White Bouquet by Anne Harney, Contemporary Floral Painting with White and Black
By Anne Harney
Located in Atlanta, GA
Anne Harney is a representational painter beginning her work from observation and concluding with a mix of imagination. “I prefer to begin my work from life. My landscape paintings u...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
Bergamo Still Life
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Tony Scherman (1950-2023) is one of the most collected and cherished Canadian artists. He is renowned internationally for his work in encaustic (a mix of wax and oil, one of the most...
Category
1990s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Encaustic
Roses in Brass Vase, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
This still-life painting depicts white roses arranged in a brass vase, with a pink one at the bottom. The earth-toned palette and thick bravura brushstrokes imp...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Landscape with Repeater" Oil Painting 39" x 39" inch by Egor Plotnikov
Located in Culver City, CA
"Landscape with Repeater" Oil Painting 39" x 39" inch by Egor Plotnikov
Egor Plotnikov was born in Kirov (Russia) in 1980.
2000 – graduated from the Rylov Art School of Vyatka.
2006...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Mixed Florals by Anne Harney, Contemporary Floral Still Life Painting, Pink
By Anne Harney
Located in Atlanta, GA
Anne Harney is a representational painter beginning her work from observation and concluding with a mix of imagination. “I prefer to begin my work from life. My landscape paintings u...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
Milan Still Life
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Tony Scherman (1950-2023) is one of the most collected and cherished Canadian artists. He is renowned internationally for his work in encaustic (a mix of wax and oil, one of the most...
Category
1990s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Encaustic
Oyster Watch by Anne Harney, Contemporary Interior Still Life Painting
By Anne Harney
Located in Atlanta, GA
Anne Harney is a representational painter beginning her work from observation and concluding with a mix of imagination. “I prefer to begin my work from life. My landscape paintings usually follow me into the studio the following day to capture the light and color on to a more abstract larger painting.” The subjects do not always seem to have a connection, but the still life and landscape paintings all hold something personal to the artist. Personal objects such as, Grandmother’s iron, plaster models, dolls, material, mirrors and soda crates from a cousin’s barn, all make for an interesting story. Her landscapes of New England...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Dry Leaves, Large Painting by George Chemeche
Located in Long Island City, NY
Dry Leaves by George Chemeche, Israeli/American (1934)
Date: 1975
Acrylic on Canvas, signed
Size: 60 x 72 in. (152.4 x 182.88 cm)
Category
1970s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Three Blooming Roses and Thorns, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Light peach roses bloom from a bed of thriving leaves, with the soft edges of their petals displaying their delicate nature. The sun casts a gentle glow on the ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Tea for Two" Still life, oil painting of tea satchel, lemon halves, + matchbook
Located in Morgan Hill, CA
"Tea for Two" is a still life oil painting on canvas by Petaluma, CA based artist Samantha Buller. The work features a freshly unpacked tea bag accompanied by two orange slices on ei...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Green Drawers, Still Life Painting, Light Green Drawers Curvilinear
Located in Kent, CT
A painting with curvilinear perspective of a light green set of drawers in a wooden dresser, lovingly painted. Signed, dated and titled on verso.
...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
White Roses by Anne Harney, Contemporary Floral Painting with Pink, Blue, Green
By Anne Harney
Located in Atlanta, GA
Anne Harney is a representational painter beginning her work from observation and concluding with a mix of imagination. “I prefer to begin my work from life. My landscape paintings u...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Panel, 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
Untitled II, unframed oil pastel landscape study
By Roy Wilce
Located in Loveland, CO
Untitled II by Roy Wilce
Oil Pastel Monoprint on Archival Paper, signed lower right
image 6x9", paper size is 12"x15",
unframed, ships flat
Minimal contemporary landscape in cool t...
Category
1990s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Oil Pastel
White Bouquet in Gray Vase by Anne Harney, Contemporary Floral Painting
By Anne Harney
Located in Atlanta, GA
Anne Harney is a representational painter beginning her work from observation and concluding with a mix of imagination. “I prefer to begin my work from life. My landscape paintings u...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
Fragment, Still Life, Botanical Patterned Green, Yellow Fabric, Wooden Table
Located in Kent, CT
A floral patterned fabric with yellow flowers on light green lays atop a nondescript light wood table. The botanical patterned object is unexpectedly dramatic against a stark white w...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Forget Conformism, 2014
By René Lalonde
Located in Greenwich, CT
Forget Conformism is an acrylic on canvas painting, 48 x 24 inches canvas size, signed 'RENÉ LALONDE' lower left and framed in a contemporary black wood frame.
It is difficult to ca...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Soprano - contemporary, abstract, botanicals, still-life, acrylic canvas
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This expressive abstract painting is by Fiona Ackerman, a Vancouver-based artist known for her beautiful contemporary work. With ‘Soprano,’ Ackerman has created a melange of images i...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Sunshafts II / realist nature 52x80 in. oil on canvas painting
By Peter Loftus
Located in Burlingame, CA
‘Sunshafts II’ oil painting by American Realist artist Peter Loftus, who is known for captivating breathtaking color-rich nature scenes through shadow and light in his oil on canvas ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Silverado
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt
Title: Silverado
Date: 2023
Medium: Oil on Panel
Unframed Dimensions: 10" x 8"
Framed Dimensions: 14.5" x 12.5"
Signature: Signed Verso
Edition: Unique
Pr...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Seven Red Roses, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Seven red roses delicately cling to their slender stems and sparse bush. The bright sunlight illuminates their vivid presence, imbuing the garden scene with a c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Delph I, unframed oil pastel study
By Roy Wilce
Located in Loveland, CO
Delph I by Roy Wilce
Oil Pastel Monoprint on Archival Paper, signed lower right
image 3x4", paper size is 15"x12",
unframed, ships flat
Colorful little section of three delphinium ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Oil Pastel
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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.