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Still-life Paintings For Sale
Price: $1 to $900
Pocket Mauve Anemone, Original Painting, Flower, Black
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Anemone 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 p...
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2010s Realist Still-life Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Pocke Yellowy Orange Clementine, Original painting, Still life, Clementine
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Yellowy Orange Clementine 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 ba...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Pocket Ripe Red Pomegranate, Baroque Still Life, fruit
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Ripe Red Pomegranate 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...
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2010s Realist Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Vintage 1930's French Impressionist Still Life Pink and Red Roses Bunch In Vase
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Roses by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below provenance stamp to the back oil painting on artist paper, unframed measures: 14.5 high by 12 inches wide condition: overal...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Still-life Paintings

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Oil

Pocket Autumn Collection Autumn leaf #2 [2024], Baroque Still Life, Small art
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Autumn Leaf Collection #2 (Naples Yellow) is an original oil painting by Dani Humberstone as part of her Pocket Painting series featuring small scale realistic oil paintings, ...
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2010s Realist Still-life Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Pocket Autumn Collection Autumn leaf #3 [2024], Baroque Still Life, Small art
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Autumn Leaf Collection (Pinky Ochre) is an original oil painting by Dani Humberstone as part of her Pocket Painting series featuring small scale realistic oil paintings, with ...
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2010s Realist Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Vintage 1930's French Impressionist Still Life Roses in Glass in Garden
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Roses by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below provenance stamp to the back gouache painting on artist paper, unframed measures: 13 high by 16.5 inches wide condition: ov...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Still-life Paintings

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Gouache

pocket dark blue sloes, Baroque Still Life Painting, Small Art, Fruit Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Dark Blue Sloes is an original still-life painting by artist Dani Humberstone. This painting is a small scale renaissance inspired still life in a photorealistic style and sol...
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2010s Realist Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

French Impressionist Tablescape Still Life Watercolour
Located in Cotignac, FR
French Impressionist watercolour on paper view of a colourful tablescape still life by Henri Clamen. The painting is not signed but was acquired form the atelier of the artist with o...
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Early 20th Century Impressionist Still-life Paintings

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Paper, Ink, Watercolor

Lantern & Cardinal in Snow Holiday Watercolor
Located in New York, NY
Gouache painted on cardstock, intended for a greeting card design, painted circa 1970. Unsigned. Displayed in a red archival mat. Cellophane tape on board.
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1970s Still-life Paintings

Materials

Cardboard, Gouache

Simka Simkhovitch WPA W/C Painting Gouache American Modernist Bouquet of Flowers
Located in Surfside, FL
Simka Simkhovitch (Russian/American 1893 - 1949) This came with a small grouping from the artist's family, some were hand signed some were not. These were studies for larger paintings. This is a miniature watercolor and gouache vibrant, colorful bouquet of flowers in a vase. Simka Simkhovitch (Симха Файбусович Симхович) (aka Simka Faibusovich Simkhovich) (Novozybkov, Russia May 21, 1885 O.S./June 2, 1885 N.S.—Greenwich, Connecticut February 25, 1949) was a Ukrainian-Russian Jewish artist and immigrant to the United States. He painted theater scenery in his early career and then had several showings in galleries in New York City. Winning Works Progress Administration (WPA) commissions in the 1930s, he completed murals for the post offices in Jackson, Mississippi and Beaufort, North Carolina. His works are in the permanent collections of the Dallas Museum of Art, the National Museum of American Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Born outside Kyiv (Petrograd Ukraine) into a Jewish family who owned a small department store. During a severe case of measles when he was seven, Simcha Simchovitch sketched the views outside his window and decided to become an artist, over his father's objections. Beginning in 1905, he studied at the Grekov Odessa Art School and upon completion of his studies in 1911 received a recommendation to be admitted to the Imperial Academy of Arts. Though he enrolled to begin classes in architecture, painting, and sculpture at the Imperial Academy, he was dropped from the school roster in December because of the quota on the number of Jewish students and drafted into the army. Simchovitch served as a private in the 175th Infantry Regiment Baturyn [ru] until his demobilization in 1912. Re-enrolling in the Imperial Academy, he audited classes. Simka Simkhovitch exhibited paintings and sculptures in 1918 as part of an exhibition of Jewish artists and in 1919 placed 1st in the competition "The Great Russian Revolution" with a painting called "Russian Revolution" which was hung in the State Museum of Revolution. In 1922, Simkha Simkhovitch exhibited at the International Book Fair in Florence (Italian: Fiera Internazionale del Libro di Firenze). In 1924, Simkhovitch came to the United States to make illustrations for Soviet textbooks and decided to immigrate instead. Initially he supported himself by doing commercial art and a few portrait commissions. In 1927, he was hired to paint a screen for a scene in the play "The Command to Love" by Fritz Gottwald and Rudolph Lothar which was playing at the Longacre Theatre on Broadway. Art dealers began clamoring for the screen and Simkhovitch began a career as a screen painter for the theater. Catching the attention of the screenwriter, Ernest Pascal, he worked as an illustrator for Pascal, who then introduced him to gallery owner, Marie Sterner. Simkhovitch's works appeared at the Marie Sterner Gallery beginning with a 1927 exhibit and were repeated the following year. Simkhovitch had an exhibit in 1929 at Sterner's on circus paintings. In 1931, he held a showing of works at the Helen Hackett Gallery, in New York City and later that same year he was one of the featured artists of a special exhibit in San Francisco at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor in Lincoln Park. The exhibit was coordinated by Marie Sterner and included four watercolors, including one titled "Nudes". He is of the generation of Russian Soviet artists such as Isaac Pailes, Serge Charchoune, Marc Chagall, Chana Orloff, Isaac Ilyich Levitan, and Ossip Zadkine. In 1936, Simkhovitch was selected to complete the mural for the WPA Post office project in Jackson, Mississippi. The mural was hung in the post office and courthouse in 1938 depicted a plantation theme. Painted on the wall behind the judge’s bench, “Pursuits of Life in Mississippi”, a depiction of black workers engaged in manual labor amid scenes of white professionals and socialites, was eventually covered over in later years during renovations due to its stereotypical African American imagery. Simka painted what he thought was typical of Jackson. His impression of pre-civil rights Mississippi was evidently Greek Revival column houses, weeping willow trees, working class families, and the oppression of African Americans. He painted African American men picking cotton, while a white man took account of the harvest and a white judge advised a white family, calling it Pursuits of Life in Mississippi. Though clearly endorsed by the government and initially generally well-received, the mural soon raised concerns with locals as the climate toward racial segregation began to change. The main concern was whether depictions that show African Americans in subjugated societal roles should be featured in a courtroom. The following year, his painting "Holiday" won praise at an exhibition in Lincoln, Nebraska. In 1940, Simkhovitch's second WPA post office project was completed when four murals, "The Cape Lookout Lighthouse and the Orville W. Mail Boat", "The Wreck of the Crissie Wright", "Sand Ponies" and "Canada Geese" were installed in Beaufort, North Carolina. The works were commissioned in 1938 and did not generate the controversy that the Jackson mural had. The main mural is "The Wreck of the Crissie Wright" and depicts a shipwreck which had occurred in Beaufort in 1866. "The Cape Lookout Lighthouse and the Orville W. Mail Boat" depicted the lighthouse built in 1859 and the mail boat that was running mail during the time which Simkhovitch was there. The boat ran mail for the area until 1957. "Sand Ponies" shows the wild horses common to the North Carolina barrier islands and "Canada Geese" showed the importance of hunting and fishing in the area. All four murals were restored in the 1990s by Elisabeth Speight, daughter of two other WPA muralists, Francis Speight...
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1930s American Modern Still-life Paintings

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Gouache, Board, Watercolor

Few Strokes of Yellow
Located in Toronto, ON
6" x 9.5" Unframed Oil on Canvas (Original) Hand Signed by Miljan Vasiljevic 2002
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Early 2000s Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Destination, Original painting, Landscape, Nature, Birds view, Lake, Hills
Located in Deddington, GB
"Look at your feet. You are standing in the sky. When we think of the sky, we tend to look up, but the sky actually begins at the earth" Diane Ackerman “I think it’s the role of an ...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Oil, Board

Island Garden Border IX, Original Paintings, Landscape, Nature, Plants
Located in Deddington, GB
Dylan Lloyd Island Garden Border IX Island Garden Border IX is an original oil painting by Dylan Lloyd. The hints of plummy autumn tones contrasted with the vibrant green tones give...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Hilding Högberg (1897-1995) - Mid 20th Century Oil, Watermelon and Flowers
Located in Corsham, GB
Signed to the lower right. Presented in a gilt frame. On board.
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20th Century Still-life Paintings

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Oil

Golden tropical flowers Original wall art supported by frame
Located in Valencia, ES
Every artwork is hand-made and supported with a certificate of authenticity. Made in Spain, 2024. The frame is included. Package: protected cardboard box. Dispatching terms: 2-3 work...
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2010s Abstract Still-life Paintings

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Sandstone

Steeple Scene, Mixed Media on Paper Colorful Paris City Scene
Located in Atlanta, GA
Welcome to Heritage, our carefully curated collection of French vintage and antique paintings. We scour the flea markets and fairs for these gems: poignant portraits of long-gone Me...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Still-life Paintings

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Paper, Mixed Media, Watercolor

French Rooftops, Mixed Media on Paper Colorful CItyscape of Paris
Located in Atlanta, GA
Welcome to Heritage, our carefully curated collection of French vintage and antique paintings. We scour the flea markets and fairs for these gems: poignant portraits of long-gone Me...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Still-life Paintings

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Paper, Mixed Media, Watercolor

Parisian City Square, Mixed Media on Paper Colorful Paris City Scene
Located in Atlanta, GA
Welcome to Heritage, our carefully curated collection of French vintage and antique paintings. We scour the flea markets and fairs for these gems: poignant portraits of long-gone Me...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Still-life Paintings

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Paper, Mixed Media, Watercolor

French school - Oil Painting - Still life - Agrumes Starwars Post Impressionist
Located in Zofingen, AG
Serie: Agrumes Starwars - 21th Century French Oil Painting Of Still life - Still life study of citrus. The background is black, blue and grey and white, full of orange and yellow d...
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Still-life Paintings

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Ink, Oil, Acrylic

Crystal Hot Sauce, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
"Hot sauce is a condiment some people cannot live without," says artist Karen Barton. The clear glass delicately captures the surrounding light while showcasing...

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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Still-life Paintings

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Oil

French School - Poppy Starwars oil Painting - Iconic
Located in Zofingen, AG
Poppy Starwars Structural analysis: _ Feeling of the wind in the flowers_ Abstract drippings bring movement to the still life painting. There are 2 systems of contrasts. First one...
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Still-life Paintings

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Ink, Oil, Acrylic

Stacked Fabric, Mandarin - Vibrant Patterns, Reflective Glass & an Orange
Located in Chicago, IL
I am interested in the abstract elements of the art work as much as the subject matter. My still life paintings are not still. I feel that my paintings are lasting over time and invite repeated exploration. –Carol Stewart...
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2010s Impressionist Still-life Paintings

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Panel, Oil, Archival Paper

Still Life of Wine, Onion and Carrots
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful still life painting of a table consisting of wine, onions and carrots by California plein air artist Jack Lynn. Unsigned. Unfram...
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1980s American Impressionist Still-life Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

"Tea time"
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
Dear art lover, I have worked on a new series of small oil paintings. This is the one of them. This series is dedicated to the scenes of everyday life. This painting is called " Te...
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2010s Impressionist Still-life Paintings

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Oil

Fine Classical Still Life Summer Flowers, British Oil Painting Exhibition label
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
'Summer Flowers' by Margaret Ryder (British b. 1908) signed oil on canvas, framed frame: 33 x 26 inches canvas: 27 x 20 inches provenance: private collection, UK Exhibited at the Roy...
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Mid-20th Century Old Masters Still-life Paintings

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Oil

20th Century French Modernist Gouache Painting Pink Roses In White Jug
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...
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20th Century Modern Still-life Paintings

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Gouache

Large Colorful Still Life of Flowers Profusion of Petals & Flowers Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Profusion of Flowers European artist, late 20th century oil on canvas, unframed canvas : 24 x 20 inches provenance: private collection, UK condition: very good and sound condition
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Mid-20th Century Modern Still-life Paintings

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Oil

Pocket Deep Blush Pear 1 and Pocket Ripe Banana by Dani Humberstone
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Deep Blush Pear 1 [2023] Pocket Ripe Banana by Dani Humberstone [2022} original Oil paint on canvas Image size: H:7 cm x W:5 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:7 cm x W:5 cm...
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2010s English School Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

French School - Still life Garlic and Chili peppers Starwars Post Impressionist
Located in Zofingen, AG
Still life _ Garlic and Chili Peppers Technique: oil, acrylic, ink on wood frame 40x40cm / 15,7x15,7inch 》》R E A D Y -- T O -- H A N G《《 ❶ → Original signed work. Certificate of...
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Still-life Paintings

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Ink, Oil, Acrylic

Bouquet, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Artist Carey Parks presents an impressionist still life of dainty flowers on a glass cylinder. Taking a small bunch from a large bouq...

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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Still-life Paintings

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Acrylic

"Chrysanthemums painted in Claude Monet" Original Oil Painting by Lilya Volskaya
Located in Zofingen, AG
The paintings are drawn with oil on the canvas. Shipping rolled in a TUBE. Chrysanthemums painted in Claude Monet's manner. Water-based sustainable mineral paints were used to creat...
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2010s Impressionist Still-life Paintings

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Lacquer, Pigment, Canvas, Oil

1970s Belgian Gouache Still Life Provençal Tablescape of Fruit and Tableware.
Located in Cotignac, FR
1970s expressionist still life gouache on paper by Belgian artist André Pierard painted in Provence in the south of France. Colourful representation of table laden with tableware and...
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1970s Expressionist Still-life Paintings

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Paper, Gouache

Embossed textured orange flowers on a blue backgraund.Still life abstraction
Located in Zofingen, AG
Still life of scarlet, orange flowers on a blue background. An interesting composition. The canvas space is completely filled with flowers. But!There is air in the gaps. This makes t...
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2010s Expressionist Still-life Paintings

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Acrylic, Epoxy Resin, Canvas

Not Art, Word Art Calligraphy Painting, Acrylic Vivid Background, Red and Green
Located in Barcelona, ES
"Not Art" is a hand-painted acrylic painting on high-quality 300g paper by artist Ryan Rivadeneyra. The hand-drawn render is reminiscent and inspired by the word art...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Ink, Acrylic, Archival Ink, Sumi Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper

Enjoying the Marrakech Original Oil Painting Lemon Tree by Ksenia Tsyganyuk
Located in Zofingen, AG
Cats are the true inhabitants of warm countries such as Morocco and Turkey. They embody the essence of city life, where warm sandy walls, vibrant decorative patterns, and fragrant ci...
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2010s Post-Impressionist Still-life Paintings

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Panel, Oil

After Duncan Grant - 20th Century Oil, Tulips and Hyacinths
Located in Corsham, GB
Unsigned. Presented in a gilt frame. Unfinished coastal scene to the reverse of the board. On board.
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20th Century Still-life Paintings

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Oil

Lemon tenderness Original Oil Painting Fruits Tree by Ksenia Tsyganyuk
Located in Zofingen, AG
In the seclusion of a Moroccan garden on a scorching summer day, one is welcomed by the refreshing shade cast by the leaves of palm and citrus trees. The gentle murmur of a fountain...
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2010s Post-Impressionist Still-life Paintings

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Panel, Oil

Pocket Green Hellebore (c), Original Painting, Flower, Nature, Spring art
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Green Hellebore (c) 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 ...
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2010s Realist Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Georges Pacouil (1903-1996) - Mid 20th Century Oil, Gladioli
Located in Corsham, GB
Signed to the lower left. Beautifully presented in a gilt frame with laurel and berry mouldings and a cotton slip. On canvas.
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20th Century Still-life Paintings

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Oil

Fine Antique British Botanical Painting White Flower Plant
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...
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Early 20th Century Victorian Still-life Paintings

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Watercolor

1950's Modernist Painting Gladioli Flowers In China White Jug
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Gladioli Flowers by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century) original watercolour on artist paper size: 18 x 15 inches condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed provenance: the ar...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Still-life Paintings

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Watercolor

Sweet and Sour Original Oil Painting Lemon Tree by Ksenia Tsyganyuk
Located in Zofingen, AG
Across numerous African nations, where vast stretches of sand dominate the landscape, pockets of human-made oases nurture the growth of lemon and orange trees. This serves as a test...
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2010s Post-Impressionist Still-life Paintings

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Panel, Oil

Abstract Painting With Rolled painter's Canvases. 1970. Signed F. Raimondo
Located in Firenze, IT
Abstract Painting With rolled painter's canvases. Circa 1970. Dimensions: 64 x 53 cm Abstract painting with Cubist influence. Technique: oil on canvas. Signed on the back A. Ra...
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1970s Cubist Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Still life with Apples and Bottle - Oil Paint - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Still life with apples and bottle is a modern artwork realized by an Artist of the mid-20th Century. Mixed colored oil painting. Includes frame.
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Mid-20th Century Modern Still-life Paintings

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Oil

Roses, Flowers Still Life Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Ashot Muradyan Work: Original Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind Medium: Oil on Linen Year: 2024 Style: Impressionism, Subject: Roses, Size: 24" x 15" x 0.8'' inch, ...
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2010s Impressionist Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Vintage Mid-Century Modern Still Life Expressive Oil Painting - The Gourds
Located in Bristol, GB
THE GOURDS Size: 42 x 44 cm (including frame) Oil on Board A lively mid-century still life composition filled with a variety of gourds, executed in oil onto board. The gourds, in v...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Still-life Paintings

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Board, Oil

Picky-Tuck-Tuck
Located in Wenham, MA
This piece is an original oil painting on panel. It is framed in a simple gold frame. The overall dimensions of the piece as framed are approximately 11x11 inches. The title referenc...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings

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Panel, Oil

1983 Oil - Lilies and Tulips
Located in Corsham, GB
Signed with a monogram 'M. B. W.' and dated to the lower left. Presented in a wooden frame with a cotton slip. On board.
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20th Century Still-life Paintings

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Oil

Mid 20th Century Oil - Fruit and a Chalice
Located in Corsham, GB
Unsigned. Presented in a rustic gilt frame. On canvas.
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20th Century Still-life Paintings

Materials

Oil

Moving Cloud, Original painting, Landscape, Nature, Birds view, Lake, Hills
Located in Deddington, GB
"Look at your feet. You are standing in the sky. When we think of the sky, we tend to look up, but the sky actually begins at the earth" Diane Ackerman In his Landscape paintings, J...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Oil, Board

Giordani Grimani - Italian School 20th Century Oil, Still Life of Yellow Flowers
Located in Corsham, GB
Signed lower right. On canvas on stretchers.
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20th Century Still-life Paintings

Materials

Oil

Pocket Quail Egg (c), Original Painting, Egg, Nature
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Quail Egg (c) 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 ...
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2010s Realist Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Hills In Mist, Original painting, Landscape, Nature, Birds view, Lake, Hills
Located in Deddington, GB
"Look at your feet. You are standing in the sky. When we think of the sky, we tend to look up, but the sky actually begins at the earth" Diane Ackerman In his Landscape painting’s J...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Board, Oil

Avon Crisp - 1948 Oil, Study of Summer Flowers
Located in Corsham, GB
Signed to the lower right. Presented in a white painted wooden frame. On board.
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Mid-20th Century Still-life Paintings

Materials

Oil

2000 Oil - Onions and Wine
Located in Corsham, GB
Signed illegibly and dated to the lower right. Presented in a substantial wooden frame. On board.
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21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Paintings

Materials

Oil

Under Cloud, Original painting, Landscape, Nature, Birds view, Lake, Hills
Located in Deddington, GB
In his Landscape paintings, James Naughton finds a constantly engaging conversation, a dialogue between light, air, and the earth. The subject has been a fascination which has establ...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Oil, Board

1974 Mid-Century Modern Still Life Oil Painting by Ture Fabiansson - Four Apples
Located in Bristol, GB
FOUR APPLES Size: 31.5 x 43.5 cm (including frame) Oil on Canvas A very pleasant modernist still life oil composition dated 1974, and painted by the established Swedish artist Ture...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, 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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