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Still-life Paintings For Sale
Style: Modern
Style: Contemporary
French school modern art Still life oranges lemons 1914 Montparnasse frame 20th
Located in PARIS, FR
French school from the beginning of the 20th century Oil on canvas 34 x 46 cm (53 x 63 cm with the frame) Signed and dated lower left "EB / 1914" Trace of signature lower right Very ...
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1910s Modern Still-life Paintings

Materials

Oil

TEACUPS - Contemporary Still Life / Russian American Artist
Located in New York, NY
Original oil painting by Olga Antonova
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Still Life
Located in Miami, FL
Miguel Padura "Still Life" Oil on canvas 21 1/2 x 38 in
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1990s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

A HOLE IN ONE II - Hyperrealism / Contemporary / Doughnut / Golf Lover
Located in New York, NY
Original Oil Painting by Elizabeth McGhee
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Oil, Panel

Blue Poppies
Located in Singapore, SG
I love to paint the blue poppies as they are truly blue with delicate and fragile petals. The journey of the blue poppy is that of triumph and optimism, tha...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Home and Food"
Located in Singapore, SG
Mass migration and expression of human struggle during his times.
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Untitled
Located in Barcelona, ES
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
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1990s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

PLAY, BOY BUNNY - Contemporary Realism / Humorous Still Life
Located in New York, NY
Original Painting by Elizabeth McGhee
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Girl from Ipanema - Watercolor Figurative Painting, Limited Edition Print, 2021
Located in Bal Harbour, FL
Experience the epitome of sun-kissed serenity with "Girl From Ipanema," a captivating fine art figurative watercolor painting that transports you to the sandy shores of Brazil's icon...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Cotton, Watercolor, Archival Paper

June 2001, J.T.
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Xiaoze Xie. "June 2001, J.T." is a contemporary painting, oil on canvas by Chinese photorealist Xiaoze Xie. The artwork is signed on the verso, "June 2001 Xie Xiaoze...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Oil

Figurative Still life painting - Seven pots
Located in Beijing, CN
Feng Shi, born in Shanghai in 1990, professional painter. In 2009, he studied in the painting department of the school of fine arts of Shanghai Normal Univer...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Watercolor

Abandoned Books
Located in San Luis Obispo, CA
effrey Long, the elder son of a commercial graphic artist at Time & Life, was born in New York City in 1948. In 1970 Long received a BFA in Illustration and Art Education from Rhode Island School of Design and had decided to be a painter. His paintings from this period were photo realistic portraits and figures set in landscapes. On graduation, he married and began teaching art in a Rhode Island public school system. From 1971 through 1973 he was a resident artist at the Rockefeller-funded Pulpit Rock Community in Woodstock, Connecticut. Works from this intensive period were representational, highly dynamic, and borrowed from the vocabulary of cartoons. In early 1974 Long moved to the San Francisco Bay Area, where he obtained a full scholarship at California College of Arts & Crafts (now California College of Arts). There he received an MFA in painting in 1976. He established various studios in Oakland and Emeryville, while also working as a Curatorial Assistant at The Oakland Museum. The museum brought him in touch with such California artists as Richard Diebenkorn, Elmer Bischoff, Manuel Neri, Joan Brown, Jay de Feo...
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2010s American Modern Still-life Paintings

Materials

Oil

YELLOW, GREEN, BLACK, WHITE - Contemporary Realism / Still Life Color Apples
Located in New York, NY
Original still life painting by Edward A. Butler.
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Linen, Oil

"Untitled" - Agave, pink and green, organic, nature, Mexican, figurative paint
Located in Ciudad de México, MX
Daniel Berman's production is not only torrential and overflowing but also mutating as if it were a chameleon, it changes to support and scale to explore the possibilities of each te...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Still Life with Old Sunflowers
Located in Gloucester, MA
Timothy Harney's emotionally powerful paintings, drawings, and collages possess an exceptional formal excellence which propels them beyond the particula...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Panel, Acrylic

JAM ON BREAD - Food Still Life / Pop Art / Photorealism / Kitchen
Located in New York, NY
A British-born, American based painter, Richard Combes focuses his subjects on the forgotten or the forlorn, perhaps indications or remnants of a time before.
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

"Divine Garden Series #268", Mark Whitmarsh, Contemporary White Flowers, 48x36
Located in Dallas, TX
“As I build layers of color, a personal iconography evolves on the painted surface. I’m interested in a surface that has a rich patina with a modern ancestry. By adding and subtracti...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

"Une Belle de Jour", Jean-Claude Gaugy, Oil on Board, French, Contemporary
Located in Dallas, TX
"Une Belle de Jour" is an original oil on board painting that measures 30x40 inches and comes unframed. Gaugy's still life of red and blue flowers is a beautiful representation of "M...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Board, Oil

Pears in a Row
Located in New York, NY
Signed and dated (at lower right): J. STONE ROBERTS./ 2004.
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Early 2000s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Oil

Full Palette
Located in New York, NY
Oil painting on wood panel. Building blocks. A glimpse into a child's world, one we all have experienced. Tone is engaging, fun with universal appeal. About the artist: Mollo...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Oil, Wood Panel

Reckless
Located in New York, NY
Oil painting of car on a curve. Sunglasses hang from the steering wheel. Tone is engaging, fun with universal appeal. About the artist: Molloy...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

BEACH HOUSE - Hyperrealism / Portrait of crab with conch shell on the beach
Located in New York, NY
Will Wilson is an American artist known for portrait paintings, illustrations and Trompe L'Oeil works. His works have been acquired by museums, well-known corporate collections, and ...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Oil, Panel

Ponies and Puppies Trotty And Trix Coloring Book, Cover Art
Located in Miami, FL
Children's illustration of Ponies and Puppies Signed lower left Children’s Books Published by The Merrill Company
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1950s Modern Still-life Paintings

Materials

Gouache

"Still life with Vegetables"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by: Gershon Benjamin (1899 - 1985) An American Modernist of portraits, landscapes, still lives, and the urban scene, Gershon ...
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1970s Modern Still-life Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

"Red Tulips, Paris"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by: Bror Julius Olsson “B.J.O.” Nordfeldt (1878 – 1955) Bror Julius Olsson was born in Tullstrop, Sweden in 1878. He immigrated to the United States in 1891, later adopting his mother’s maiden name of Nordfeldt. Beginning his art studies at the Art Institute of Chicago where he was chosen to assist fellow artist, Albert Herter, with a large mural project for the McCormick Harvester Company. In 1900, he was sent to Paris by McCormick to help set up the completed mural at the Paris Exposition. While there, he studied briefly at the Academie Julian before traveling to England to study woodblock printmaking under F. Morley Fletcher. Returning to Chicago in 1903, Nordfeldt would spend the next ten years painting mainly figurative works in an academic style similar to that of the Old Masters. By the mid-teens he had developed a bold dramatic modernist style and divided his time between New York and Provincetown, Massachusetts. There, he invented the “Provincetown Print...
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1930s American Modern Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Still Life aux Legumes et Poisson
Located in Sheffield, MA
Georges Georoy Belgium, 1906–1983 Still Life aux Legumes et Poisson Oil on canvas 23 ¾ in. by 28 ¾ in. W/frame 31 ¾ in. by 36 ¾ in. Signed lower right In a period Heydenryk frame ...
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1960s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Oil

Fruit Bowl #1
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Alatza paints dynamic and energetic portraits of people, tongue-in-cheek scenes and vibrant still lifes. With forms contorted in a full-tilt, floor-to-ceiling, wall-to-wall assault,...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Plywood, Oil

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

"Parasol" Abstract Oil Painting 24" x 20" inch by Ashraf Zamzami
Located in Culver City, CA
"Parasol" Abstract Oil Painting 24" x 20" inch by Ashraf Zamzami ABOUT A characteristically bold and optimistic palette does not belie the inescapably pensive nature and at times, ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Still Life with Glass and Porcelain - Oil Painting by Paul Walter Erhardt - 1920
Located in Roma, IT
Still Life with Glass and Porcelain is an artwork realized by Paul Walter Erhardt (1872-1959). Oil on canvas, signed upper right. 60 x 75 cm, f...
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1920s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Oil

Tupperware Containers I - 21st Century Dutch Still-life painting of Tupperware
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Heidi von Faber Tupperware Containers I Acrylic on linen 80 x 80 cm ( framed/ included in price 85 x 85 cm) Dutch artist Heidi Von Faber lives and works in The Hague. The Stilllli...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Linen, Acrylic

WPA Landscape American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern Farm Rural
Located in New York, NY
WPA Landscape American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern Farm Rural James McCracken (1875 – 1967) WPA Landscape 28 x 36 inches Oil on canvas, c. 1930s Signed lower right ...
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1930s American Modern Still-life Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Stack of dishes II - 21st Century Dutch Still-life painting of dishes
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Heidi von Faber Stack of Dishes II Acrylic on linen 100 x 80 cm ( framed/ included in price 105 x 85 cm) Dutch artist Heidi Von Faber lives and works in The Hague. The Stillllifes...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Linen, Acrylic

Stack of dishes I - 21st Century Dutch Still-life painting of dishes
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Heidi von Faber Stack of Dishes I Acrylic on linen 100 x 80 cm ( framed/ included in price 105 x 85 cm) Dutch artist Heidi Von Faber lives and works in The Hague. The Stillllifes ...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Linen, Acrylic

The Age of Reason I by Joachim Van der Vlugt - Semi-abstract painting, scull
Located in Paris, FR
The Age of Reason I is a unique oil on canvas painting by contemporary artist Joachim van der Vlugt, dimensions are 135 × 145 cm (53.1 × 57.1 in). The artwork is signed, sold unframe...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Honey spoon in Jar- 21st Century Hyper Realistic Still-life Painting
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Heidi von Faber Honey spoon in jar Acrylic on linen 100 x 100 cm ( framed/ included in price 105 x 105 cm) Dutch artist Heidi Von Faber lives and works in The Hague. The Stillllif...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Linen, Acrylic

Incredible Edible Flower Cake, Bright Still Life Food Art, Contemporary Pop Art
Located in Deddington, GB
A joyful depiction of a towering celebration cake decorated in edible wild flowers. This painting has a great deal of texture, vibrancy and character. Kerry Louise Bennett, artist and painter, has original artworks available with Wychwood Art in our gallery and online. Working from her home studio in Sheffield, Kerry Louise Bennett (b.1972) makes colourful paintings loaded with texture and pattern. Her previous lives working in set design, upholstery and photography, and her passion for music and literature, all feed into the semi-abstract interior and still life compositions she paints. In one sense the objects painted and the relationships between them can be seen as arbitrary, necessary only to serve a sense of spatial orchestration, and the abstract sensibility of a process-led artist, however, an element of romance and storytelling always seems to emerge in her charming characterful paintings. Colour and composition, strong mark-making and the pure materiality of paint drive my creative practice, but of course everything I make reveals something of me - the introvert, the observer, the dreamer. I work over multiple layers before finding the story the painting wants to tell. In some ways I feel like the conductor of an unruly orchestra - there is a musicality to my work, and my visual vocabulary draws on the everyday to capture a kind of unconscious narrative that transforms chaos into calm, worry into joy, the mundane to the magical. Kerry says of herself: I am obsessed with colour first and foremost – it’s impact is so visceral, but mark making is also important – usually expressed through pattern and the shapes of things often scratched into the surface of the paint, with textures then built up over many layers. My visual vocabulary draws on the ordinary stuff of life - chairs, plants...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Allure, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Bright pink roses rest on a bed of vibrant green leaves. The sun shines, casting a warm glow and a gentle shadow across the garden. For artist Hilary Gomes, a c...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Oil

"Ladrillo" (FRAMED) Painting 20.5" x 21" inch by Antonio Pelayo
Located in Culver City, CA
"Ladrillo" (FRAMED) Painting 20.5" x 21" inch by Antonio Pelayo Medium: Pencil on Paper. Acrylic Ink & Paint on Animation Acetate Image size: 15" x 1...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Ink, Acrylic

"In the Summer" Oil Painting 67" x 98" inch by Egor Plotnikov
Located in Culver City, CA
"In the Summer" Oil Painting 67" x 98" inch by Egor Plotnikov ATTENTION: painting ships rolled in a tube Egor Plotnikov was born in Kirov (Russia) in 1980. 2000 – graduated from th...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Balconies of the sky III by Joachim van der Vlugt - Semi-abstract painting
Located in Paris, FR
Balconies of the sky III is a unique oil on canvas painting by contemporary artist Joachim van der Vlugt, dimensions are 100 × 130 cm (39.4 × 51.2 in). The artwork is signed, sold un...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Daisy
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt Title: Daisy Date: 2024 Medium: Oil on Panel Unframed Dimensions: 10" x 8" Framed Dimensions: 14.5" x 12.5" Signature: Signed Verso Edition: Unique Proven...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Oil

1930's French Impressionist Painting Red Peonies In Glass Vase Green Interior
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Red Peonies signed by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below provenance stamp to the back oil painting on board, unframed measures: 22 high by 18 inches wide condition: ov...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Still-life Paintings

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Oil

"The Field" Oil Painting 47" x 59" inch by Egor Plotnikov
Located in Culver City, CA
"The Field" Oil Painting 47" x 59" inch by Egor Plotnikov Egor Plotnikov was born in Kirov (Russia) in 1980. 2000 – graduated from the Rylov Art School of Vyatka. 2006 – graduated f...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Still Life of Tomatoes" Oil Painting 10" x 14" inch by Mohammed Ismail
Located in Culver City, CA
"Still Life of Tomatoes" Oil Painting 10" x 14" inch by Mohammed Ismail 1967 ABOUT THE ARTIST Mohammed Ismail (1936-1993) Dr. Mohamed Ismail was born in 1936 in Zagazig in Egyp...
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20th Century Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Oil, Wood

"Windy Day" Oil Painting 59" x 79" inch by Egor Plotnikov
Located in Culver City, CA
"Windy Day" Oil Painting 59" x 79" inch by Egor Plotnikov Egor Plotnikov was born in Kirov (Russia) in 1980. 2000 – graduated from the Rylov Art School of Vyatka. 2006 – graduated f...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, 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

Balconies of the sky II by Joachim van der Vlugt - Semi-abstract flower painting
Located in Paris, FR
Balconies of the sky II is a unique oil on canvas painting by contemporary artist Joachim van der Vlugt, dimensions are 100 × 130 cm (39.4 × 51.2 in). The artwork is signed, sold unf...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Abstract Visage VII" Oil Painting 24" x 20" inch by Ashraf Zamzami
Located in Culver City, CA
"Abstract Visage VII" Oil Painting 24" x 20" inch by Ashraf Zamzami ABOUT A characteristically bold and optimistic palette does not belie the inescapably pensive nature and at time...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Large Still Life Flowers Oil on Canvas Painting, Signed and Framed
Located in Plainview, NY
A beautiful large oil on canvas still life painting depicting two vases filled with lovely flowers in vibrant colors with a green background. The painting is finely presented in a cu...
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20th Century Modern Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Abstract Visage II" Oil Painting 24" x 20" inch by Ashraf Zamzami
Located in Culver City, CA
"Abstract Visage II" Oil Painting 24" x 20" inch by Ashraf Zamzami ABOUT A characteristically bold and optimistic palette does not belie the inescapably pensive nature and at times,...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Tulips Talking, White Flowers, Yellow Window, Blue Sky, Winter Trees, White Snow
Located in Kent, CT
White tulips with a light pink hue sit on a wooden windowsill while a winter landscape with a snow-covered field and barren trees against a blue sky can be seen outdoors through the ...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Oil, Panel

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

Mid Century Modern Wheat & Fruit Still-Life
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful mid-century modern oil painting of wheat and fruit by Wanda Faust (American, 20th century), c.1950. Signed lower left corner "Faust." Displayed in rustic wood frame. Image,...
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1950s Modern Still-life Paintings

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Oil, Canvas, Cardboard

Pancakes with butter and Honey- 21st Century Hyper Realistic Still-life Painting
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Heidi von Faber Pancakes, Butter & Syrup Acrylic on linen 100 x 100 cm ( framed/ included in price 105 x 105 cm) Dutch artist Heidi Von Faber lives and works in The Hague. The Sti...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Linen, Acrylic

Pocket Full Moon
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Full Moon 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...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Untitled (Horns and Bow)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This painting is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1940s. Untitled (Horns and Bow), 1941, oil on board, signed and dated lower right, 15 x 20 1/x inches...
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1940s American Modern Still-life Paintings

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Oil, Board

CRESCENT OBELISK - Contemporary Realism / Still Life
Located in New York, NY
Original Oil Painting by Kevin Palme
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2010s Contemporary 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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