Contemporary Still-life Paintings
CONTEMPORARY STYLE
Used to refer to a time rather than an aesthetic, Contemporary art generally describes pieces created after 1970 or being made by living artists anywhere in the world. This immediacy means it encompasses art responding to the present moment through diverse subjects, media and themes. Contemporary painting, sculpture, photography, performance, digital art, video and more frequently includes work that is attempting to reshape current ideas about what art can be, from Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s use of candy to memorialize a lover he lost to AIDS-related complications to Jenny Holzer’s ongoing “Truisms,” a Conceptual series that sees provocative messages printed on billboards, T-shirts, benches and other public places that exist outside of formal exhibitions and the conventional “white cube” of galleries.
Contemporary art has been pushing the boundaries of creative expression for years. Its disruption of the traditional concepts of art are often aiming to engage viewers in complex questions about identity, society and culture. In the latter part of the 20th century, contemporary movements included Land art, in which artists like Robert Smithson and Michael Heizer create large-scale, site-specific sculptures, installations and other works in soil and bodies of water; Sound art, with artists such as Christian Marclay and Susan Philipsz centering art on sonic experiences; and New Media art, in which mass media and digital culture inform the work of artists such as Nam June Paik and Rafaël Rozendaal.
The first decades of the 21st century have seen the growth of Contemporary African art, the revival of figurative painting, the emergence of street art and the rise of NFTs, unique digital artworks that are powered by blockchain technology.
Major Contemporary artists practicing now include Ai Weiwei, Cecily Brown, David Hockney, Yayoi Kusama, Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami and Kara Walker.
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Gele Appel Yellow Apple Still Life Fruit Oil Painting on Panel In Stock
Located in Utrecht, NL
Gele Appel Yellow Apple Still Life Fruit Oil Painting on Panel In Stock
Gerrit Wijngaarden (1936, Dedgum) is a self-taught artist.
At first he onl...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
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
Sunset Crane Shield Original Kevin Red Star Crow Indian Native American Painting
Located in Whitefish, MT
"Sunset Crane Shield" by Kevin Red Star, Acrylic and Mixed Media on Canvas, 36" x 36" unframed, 38" x 38" framed in a thin modern floater with hanging wire included. Signed upper right and handwritten caption on the back.
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
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
Wes Anderson's Dog - Canary Wharf, London art, Underground, Animal art
Located in Deddington, GB
Limited edition screen print of a man and his dog in the Canary Wharf underground, London.
Additional information:
Mychael Barratt
Wes Anderson's Dog - Canary Wharf [2023]
Screen ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Screen, Paper
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
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
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
Wes Anderson's Dog - Mornington Crescent, London art, Underground, Animal art
Located in Deddington, GB
Limited edition print of a brown and white dog sitting outside of Mornington Crescent. Inspired by the game I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue.
Additional information:
Mychael Barratt
Wes ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Screen, Paper
"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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
"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
'Orange Tulips' - still life - floral, botanical, naturalism, bright colors
Located in Atlanta, GA
This painting features hues of purple, orange and green.
Chattanooga-based artist Christina Renfer Vogel’s “Turning Towards the Sun” features paintings that reflect an intentional turn towards beauty in the face of the tension & uncertainty of recent years. Through nourishing periods of focused observation, she has allowed herself to delight in jubilant color, playful pattern & sensual gesture. Her works delight in the delicate unfurling of a tender leaf & the gentle turn towards an open window, as flowers seek warmth & stretch towards sunlight in the space of a painting session.
“Bringing plants...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
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
"In Your Shadow" Still life oil painting of glass bowl, yolk, blue egg, + sphere
Located in Morgan Hill, CA
"In Your Shadow" is a still life oil painting on canvas by Petaluma, CA based artist Samantha Buller. This piece features a light blue egg next to a clear glass mixing bowl containin...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, 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
"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
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
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
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
Lilium in Blue Vase - Oil Painting by Raffaele Romano - 1998
Located in Roma, IT
Lilium in blue vase is a contemporary artwork realized by Raffaele Romano in 1998.
Mixed colored oil on canvas.
Hand signed and dated on the back of the artwork
Includes frame: 59...
Category
1990s 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Red Tea, Interior, Botanical Still Life, Red Dining Room, Yellow, Red Flowers
Located in Kent, CT
A bright and inviting interior scene with a still life arrangement of a vase with red chrysanthemum flowers, and yellow and pink orchids in another glass, a pair of yellow teacups be...
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
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
Mixed Media, Canvas, Acrylic
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
2 Red
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt
Title: 2 Red
Date: 2023
Medium: Oil on Panel
Unframed Dimensions: 10" x 8"
Unframed Dimensions: 14.5" x 12.5"
Signature: Signed Verso
Edition: Unique
Prov...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
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
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
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
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
French Contemporary Art by Anne du Planty - La Havane Grise et Verte
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Anne du Planty is a French artist born in 1953 who lives & works in Paris, France.Originally from North of France, she discovered lights of the South, the brightness o...
Category
2010s 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
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
"Table des Temps" Contemporary Pastel-Toned Still Life Painting of Vase & Orchid
Located in Houston, TX
Colorful whimsical abstract contemporary painting by Houston, TX artist Moisés Villafuerte. The work features a staged still life of a pastel vase, ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
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
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
Two Trees in the Cotswolds, Original painting, Rural Landscape Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Two Trees in the Cotswolds [2020]
Original
Landscape
Oil paint on canvas
Image size: H:36 cm x W:58.5 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:36 cm x W:58.5 cm x D:2cm
Sold Unframed
Ple...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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
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
Love, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Red roses bloom in the bright sunlight. Against the hazy garden background, the soft edges of their petals reveal their delicate nature, giving a classical feel...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
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
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
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
''Turquoise Vase'', Dutch Contemporary Still Life Painting of Porcelain Vase
Located in Utrecht, NL
When you look at this painting "Turquoise Vase" by Dutch artist Sasja Wagenaar (1959) from a distance you see a perfectly painted image, but up close a generous paint streak is visib...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
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
Contemporary still-life paintings for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Contemporary still-life paintings available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add still-life paintings created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, purple, orange, green and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Jennifer Hornyak, Andrea Stajan-Ferkul, Zhang Wei Guang, and Marc Zimmerman. Frequently made by artists working with Paint, and Oil Paint and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Contemporary still-life paintings, so small editions measuring 1.25 inches across are also available. Prices for still-life paintings made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $102 and tops out at $1,023,500, while the average work sells for $3,010.