Modern Still-life Paintings
MODERN STYLE
The first decades of the 20th century were a period of artistic upheaval, with modern art movements including Cubism, Surrealism, Futurism and Dadaism questioning centuries of traditional views of what art should be. Using abstraction, experimental forms and interdisciplinary techniques, painters, sculptors, photographers, printmakers and performance artists all pushed the boundaries of creative expression.
Major exhibitions, like the 1913 Armory Show in New York City — also known as the “International Exhibition of Modern Art,” in which works like the radically angular Nude Descending a Staircase by Marcel Duchamp caused a sensation — challenged the perspective of viewers and critics and heralded the arrival of modern art in the United States. But the movement’s revolutionary spirit took shape in the 19th century.
The Industrial Revolution, which ushered in new technology and cultural conditions across the world, transformed art from something mostly commissioned by the wealthy or the church to work that responded to personal experiences. The Impressionist style emerged in 1860s France with artists like Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne and Edgar Degas quickly painting works that captured moments of light and urban life. Around the same time in England, the Pre-Raphaelites, like Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, borrowed from late medieval and early Renaissance art to imbue their art with symbolism and modern ideas of beauty.
Emerging from this disruption of the artistic status quo, modern art went further in rejecting conventions and embracing innovation. The bold legacy of leading modern artists Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Salvador Dalí, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Marc Chagall, Piet Mondrian and many others continues to inform visual culture today.
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Style: Modern
1950s "Sleeping with Fruit" Mid Century Figurative Painting University of Paris
By Donald Stacy
Located in Arp, TX
Donald Stacy
"Sleeping with Fruit"
c.1950s
Gouache paint on paper
24" x 18'" unframed
Unsigned
Came from artist's estate
*Custom framing available for additional charge. Please expec...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Large Modernist Oil Painting Wild Flowers in Vase WPA Artist Nicolai Cikovsky
Located in Surfside, FL
Nicolai S. Cikovsky, (American, 1894-1984)
Floral Still Life
Oil on canvas. Hand signed (lower right).
Dimensions: canvas 27 x 22 in. frame 35.5 X 30.75
Nicolai S. (Nicola) Cikovs...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Flowers in a blue vase. Cardboard, author's technique, 29x21.5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Flowers in a blue vase
Cardboard, author's technique, 29x21.5 cm
Category
2010s Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Crayon, Oil, Cardboard
$279 Sale Price
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Vintage Mid-Century Modern Original Still Life Oil Painting - Jugs and Funnel
Located in Bristol, GB
JUGS AND FUNNEL
Oil on Canvas
Size: 64.5 x 45 cm (including frame)
An inviting and soothing mid-century modernist style still life composition, executed in oil onto canvas.
Simple ...
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1960s Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1950s "Traffic" Oil and Sand Abstract Painting NYC Brooklyn Museum
Located in Arp, TX
Sylvia Rutkoff (1919-2011)
"Traffic"
c.1950s
Oil, sand, grout, gesso on masonite
48"x36" wood period frame
Signed on reverse in pencil
Collection acquired from family estate
Sylvia ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Masonite, Oil
Oil Painting Still Life Fruit Bowl Polly Thayer Boston Modernist Woman Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
Polly Thayer Starr (1904-2006)
Oil Painting
Still Life Fruit Bowl
Dimensions: Frame: 12.5" X 15.5", Image: 8.5" X 11.5"
Polly Thayer (Starr) (1...
Category
20th Century Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Vintage Mid-Century Modern Still Life Oil Painting - Interior with Painting
Located in Bristol, GB
INTERIOR WITH PAINTING
Size: 57 x 45 cm (including frame)
Oil on board
An expressive and uplifting mid-century modernist painting that showcases a richly decorated interior scene, e...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Still Life with Fruits" by Marie Lefèvre - Oil on Canvas - 45x53.5 cm
By Marie Lefevre
Located in Geneva, CH
Artwork sold with frame (62.5x53.5 cm)
Marie Lefevre (born in 1840) was a French painter renowned for her poetic genre scenes and tranquil landscapes, particularly those capturing t...
Category
Late 19th Century Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Still Life with Wine', California Modernist, Santa Cruz, University of Maine
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Taylor' for Jonathan Taylor (American, born 1968) and painted circa 2000.
This listed California artist first studied art at the College of the Atlantic in Bal ...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Paper
Vintage Mid-Century Modern Swedish Still Life Oil Painting - Fruit & Red Mug
Located in Bristol, GB
FRUIT & RED MUG
Oil on Board
Size: 39.5 x 39.5 cm (including frame)
An expressive and beautifully textured mid-century still life oil composition, executed i...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Exquisite ca. 1935 American Precisionist Painting of a Yellow Rose by Harry Lane
By Harry Lane
Located in Chicago, IL
An exquisite ca. 1935 American Precisionist Painting of a Yellow Rose by Harry Lane. Image size: 13" x 9 1/2". Framed Size: 20 1/2" x 17 1/2"...
Category
1930s Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
'Still Life with Guitar', Art Deco Woman Artist, National Academy of Design, ASL
By Tosca Olinsky
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed Upper Left "Tosca" for Tosca Olinski (American, 1909-1984) and painted in 1941.
Provenance: Mongerson Wunderlich Galleries, Chicago.
Exhibited: New Directions in American Pai...
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1940s Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Still Life With Cherries, Oil on canvas signed lower right
Located in PARIS, FR
Pierre PALUÉ (1920-2005), Still life with cherries, oil on canvas signed lower right, 44.5 x 59 cm, 65 x 80 cm with the frame.
Pierre Palué was born in Bordeaux on May 13, 1920. In ...
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1980s Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
High Line Yellow Flowers
Located in Fairfield, CT
About the artist:
Susan Cohen’s paintings are exhibited with New York City galleries: George Billis, Garvey Simon, First Street,The Painting Center; and the Cynthia Winings Gallery...
Category
2010s Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Egg Tempera
Mesdames et Messieurs (circus, 1920s, 1930s, performance, ~32% OFF)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Philip Verhoeven
Mesdames et Messieurs (circus, 1920s, 1930s, performance)
Acrylic and Marker on Canvas
Year: 2024
Size: 15.75 x 15.75 inches
Signed and titled by hand
COA provided
...
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2010s Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Permanent Marker
MODEST CUIXART mixed media cardboard painting
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
mixed media cardboard painting
CUIXART I TÀPIES, Modest (Barcelona, 1925 - Palafrugell, Girona, 2007).
He cuixart initially studied medicine, but soon abandoned his studies to devot...
Category
1980s Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Cardboard, Mixed Media
Sunflowers. 1999. Oil on canvas. 100x81 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Sunflowers. 1999. Oil on canvas. 100x81 cm
This depiction of sunflowers shows artist Laimdots Murnieks as a master of nature representation. Colors and decoratively captured flower...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$8,473 Sale Price
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French Painting Of A Gloomy Profile Portrait Of Bearded Male With Glasses
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
by Paul-Louis Bolot (French 1918-2003)
signed
double sided
original gouache painting on thick paper/ card
unframed
condition: very good and sound; the edges have a few curls and scu...
Category
20th Century Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Gouache
'Attic Series, Yellow', California Woman Post-Impressionist Artist, Sonoma State
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Davenport' for Jill Davenport (American, 1930-2019) and painted circa 1985; titled, verso, 'Attic Series- Yellow'.
Framed dimensions: 28 x 1.5 x 25 inches.
Born in Kansas, Jill Davenport moved to California in 1963. A lifelong artist and art enthusiast, she raised a family before focusing, in her early forties, on her vocation as an artist. In 1976, she graduated from Sonoma State University with a Bachelors in Art, subsequently continuing her studies with the California Post-Impressionist, Maury Lapp. During this period, her work was primarily representational and her favored medium was oil. In the late 1980's, however, she became an early exponent of computer-aided design and worked with some of the earliest Mac computers...
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1980s Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
20th Century French Modernist Purple and Black Portrait Of A Lady In Armchair
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
by Paul-Louis Bolot (French 1918-2003)
signed
original gouache painting on thick paper/ card
unframed
condition: very good and sound; the edges have a few curls and scuffs/ edge tear...
Category
20th Century Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Gouache
20th Century French Modernist Gouache Painting Side Portrait Of Bejewelled Lady
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
by Paul-Louis Bolot (French 1918-2003)
original gouache painting on thick paper/ card
unframed
condition: very good and sound; the edges have a few curls and scuffs/ edge tears whic...
Category
20th Century Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Gouache
French Modernist Gouache Painting Artist Self Portrait In Black And White
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
by Paul-Louis Bolot (French 1918-2003)
signed
original gouache painting on thick paper/ card
unframed
condition: very good and sound; the edges have a few curls and scuffs/ edge tear...
Category
20th Century Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Wild Flowers Vibrant Colorful Modernist Oil Painting
By John Wenger
Located in Surfside, FL
John Wenger (1887-1976) celebrated easel painter and stage set designer whose
career included 25 solo shows in the USA, Canada, and Europe. He created set designs for such plays as "Ile", "Petrushka", "Funny Face", and Rhapsody In Blue". John Wenger's art is included in many museums in and out of the USA.
John Wenger was born on June 16, 1887 in Elizabethgrad, Russia. Wenger was born an artist, and at the age of three was painting (playing) with brushes and paint while his father, a local artist who painted scenery for the traveling theater, worked on drop scenes. His mother disapproved of this and tried to keep her son from playing with these "toys."
When John Wenger was several years older, he attended Gihnazia, which is equivalent to high school but on a college level. Throughout his education Wenger excelled in visual arts. The staff at the Gihnazia school encouraged him to apply to the Imperial Art Academy of Odessa for a scholarship. At the age of thirteen, John Wenger became a student at the academy. For Wenger, this was his first time away from home and he found it to be difficult for several months.
When he came to America in 1903, John earned his living by designing ladies costumes and jewelry at his uncles store in Newark, New Jersey. He then resumed his art studies at Cooper Union and The National Academy of Design.
While in New York, Wenger found an interest in how music and theater connected to art. He rebelled against the heavy sets and hard lines of stage scenery...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Peonies 1975. Oil on canvas, 100x92 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Peonies
1975. Oil on canvas, 100x92 cm
The combination of the pink flowers and the blue vase creates a harmonious color scheme, evoking a sense of tranquility and elegance.
The pa...
Category
1970s Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$9,147 Sale Price
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Still life on black table. Oil on canvas, 135x140 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Still life on black table. Oil on canvas, 135x140 cm
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Large Bouquet" Modern Abstract Red, Blue, & Gray Floral Still Life Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Modern Cubist inspired still life painting by the iconic Houston based artist David Adickes. The work features an abstracted red, blue, and gray toned floral still life in a vase on ...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Coffee
Antique American School Abstract Cubist Flower Still Life Modernist Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very well painted period cubist still life. Oil on canvasboard. Framed. No signature found.
Category
1940s Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,020 Sale Price
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Vintage Mid-Century Modern Swedish Still Life Oil Painting - Pot & Onions
Located in Bristol, GB
POT & ONIONS
Size: 67 x 72 cm (including frame)
Oil on canvas
A large and very well executed mid century modernist still life composition, painted in oil onto canvas.
In this comp...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
White Silver Floral Painting Mixed Media Canvas 48x36" Dreamy Flowers.
By Irena Orlov
Located in Sherman Oaks, CA
Dreamy Flowers. White Silver Floral Painting
One of a kind Mixed Medium on Canvas
Artwork: Original abstract mixed media work on canvas, which combines new media - digital origina...
Category
2010s Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Varnish, Archival Ink, Acrylic, Mixed Media
Antique American Sparse Modern Expressionist Flower Still Life Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage modernist still life painting. Oil on canvas. Image size, 18L x 24H.
Category
1940s Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$636 Sale Price
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Antique American Mid Century Modern Kitchen Still Life Original OilPainting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage modernist still life painting. Oil on canvas. Housed in a period frame. Image size, 14L x 8H. Signed.
Category
1940s Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$556 Sale Price
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Floral Still Life, Oil on Board Painting by American Artist John F. Leonard
Located in Long Island City, NY
Floral Still Life (44)
John F. Leonard
American (1921–1987)
Date: circa 1965
Oil on Board
Size: 16 in. x 12 in. (40.64 cm x 30.48 cm)
Category
1960s Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Bouquet de fleurs by Moïse Kisling
Located in New Orleans, LA
Moïse Kisling
1891-1953 Polish-French
Bouquet de fleurs
(Bouquet of Flowers)
Signed “Kisling” (lower right)
Oil on canvas
Moïse Kisling’s Bouquet de fleurs is a striking testamen...
Category
20th Century Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Still Life
Located in Sheffield, MA
Alvin Hollingsworth
American, 1928-2000
A Still Life
Oil on canvas
36 by 24 in. W/frame 42 by 30 in.
Alvin was a member of the prominent Spiral group. Spiral was formed in 1963 in the New York studio of Romare Bearden. Spiral members aimed to address civil and human rights concerns and show support for the Civil Rights Movement. They did not, however, want to adhere to strict aesthetic criteria or compromise their artistic individuality. Spiral also included Norman Lewis, Hale Woodruff, Charles Alston, Emma Amos...
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1960s Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Sunflowers 2003. Oil on cardboard, 100x81 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Sunflowers
2003. Oil on cardboard, 100x81 cm
Still life painting with stylized sunflowers on light-colored background. The focal point of the artwork is the depiction of sunflowers...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
$7,703 Sale Price
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Orchid and Bananas
Located in Edinburgh, GB
Artem Andreichuk represents a young generation of Ukranian artists. He currently lives and works in Kiev, Ukraine. He constantly develops traditional painting methods and sees no bou...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Flowers on a blue background 1999, cardboard, oil, 17x13 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Flowers on a blue background
1999, cardboard, oil, 17x13 cm
The main focus of the painting is a still life arrangement of flowers set against a blue background. The artist's intent...
Category
1990s Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
$462 Sale Price
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Vintage Mid-Century Modern Floral Still Life Oil Painting - Floral & Figurine
Located in Bristol, GB
FLORAL & FIGURINE
Size: 50 x 71 cm (including frame)
Oil on Canvas
An elegant and serene mid-century still life interior scene, executed in oil on board.
The composition presents a...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Vintage Mid-Century Modern Swedish Framed Still Life Oil Painting-Lemons & Pots
Located in Bristol, GB
LEMONS & POTS
Oil on Board
Size: 48.5 x 55.5 cm (including frame)
A visually striking and expressive modernist still life composition, executed in oil onto board and dated 1949.
Th...
Category
1940s Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Vintage Mid-Century Modernist Swedish Still Life Oil Painting - The Ceramic Vase
Located in Bristol, GB
THE CERAMIC VASE
Size: 46 x 54 cm (including frame)
Oil on canvas
A soothing mid-century modernist style still life composition, executed in oil onto canvas.
Simple yet effective i...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid-Century Modern Swedish Still Life Oil Painting - Pitcher & Candlestick
Located in Bristol, GB
PITCHER & CANDLESTICK
Size: 69 x 58 cm (including frame)
Oil on board
A very well executed mid century modernist still life composition, painted in oil onto board.
This painting is...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Mid-Century Modern Still Life Oil Painting by Gunnar Hållander - Stacked Objects
Located in Bristol, GB
STACKED OBJECTS
Size: 61 x 77 cm (including frame)
Oil on Board
A striking original mid century modernist composition, painted onto board and dated 1968 by the established Swedish a...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Original Modernist Style Still Life Oil Painting - Flowers & Checkers
Located in Bristol, GB
Flowers & Checkers
Oil on Board
Size: 71 x 88 cm (including frame)
A well executed and vividly coloured modernist still composition, painted in oil onto board.
Reminiscent of the M...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Still Life, Flower Vase, Drawing, Ink on paper by Modern Indian Artist"In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Badri Narayan - Still Life - 5 x 5 inches ( unframed size)
Ink on paper
Inclusive of shipment in ready to hang form.
Style : The artist’s paintings are narrative, and titles like ‘Q...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Original Modernist Still Life Oil Painting - Summer Fruits, Summer Flowers
Located in Bristol, GB
SUMMER FRUITS, SUMMER FLOWERS
Size: 31 x 42 cm
Oil on canvas
A bright and cheerful modernist style still life, painted onto canvas.
In this composition we have two patterned jugs ...
Category
2010s Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Still life 1974. Oil on canvas, 92x100 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Still life
1974. Oil on canvas, 92x100 cm
Painting features stylized composition of flowers in a vase with oranges on a white tablecloth. The artwork showcases the artist's unique ...
Category
1970s Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$9,147 Sale Price
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"Studio Interior"
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 ...
Category
1930s Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1972 Original Expressive Impasto Still Life Oil Painting - Sunflowers in Bloom
Located in Bristol, GB
SUNFLOWERS IN BLOOM
Size: 75.5 x 58.5 cm (including frame)
Oil on canvas
A lively and beautifully textured floral still life painting that celebrates the beauty of everyday objects,...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Red Vase, Oil Painting by Donald Roy Purdy
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Donald Roy Purdy, American (1924 - )
Title: Red Vase
Year: circa 1962
Medium: Oil on Masonite, signed l.r.
Size: 47 x 20 inches
Frame Size: 53 x 24 inches
Category
1960s Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Daisies 1992, oil on cardboard, 90x83 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Daisies
1992, oil on cardboard, 90x83 cm
"Daisies" is a serene and visually pleasing artwork that celebrates the elegance of nature. The composition depicts a bouquet of white dai...
Category
1990s Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
$8,184 Sale Price
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Wild Flowers, 20th Century British Oil Still Life, Signed and Dated 1975
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas, signed and dated '1975' bottom right
Image size: 10 1/4 x 12 inches (26 x 30cm)
Contemporary style frame
This still life is a meticulous study by the artist of a selection of plants and flowers that could be found in any English hedgerow or roadside verge. Here Newcombe has depicted wild grasses, flowering nettles and dandelions in various states in their life cycle; pre-bud, full flower and having lost all of the fluffy seeds. The detail in this work is fine and reminiscent of the accuracy that was executed in 17th century Dutch artworks...
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1970s Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Still Life with Robert Laurent Sculpture
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Born in New York City, modernist painter Adelaide Lawson Gaylor studied at the Art Students League and with Kenneth Hayes Miller. She was a member of the Society of Independent Artists, the Salons of America, and the New York Society of Women Artists. She was married to artist Wood Gaylor...
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1920s Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Three Pears Modern Welsh Still Life Impasto Palette Knife Framed Oil Painting
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Gwilym Prichard.
Welsh ( b.1931 - d.2015 ).
Three Pears, 2011.
Oil On Canvas Board.
Signed With A Monogram Lower Left.
Image size 9 inches x 6.1 inches ( 23cm x 15.5cm ).
Frame size ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
"THE PITCHER" Mid Century Modern Texas Painting Oil
Located in San Antonio, TX
Michael Frary "THE PITCHER" Mid Century Modern
(1918 - 2005)
Austin Artist
Image Size: 20 x 16
Frame Size: 27 x 23
Medium: Oil
Circa 1940s
"The Pitcher"
Biography
Michael Frary (1...
Category
1940s Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Fruit" Georgina Klitgaard, Apples and Pears Still Life, Woodstock Female Artist
Located in New York, NY
Georgina Klitgaard
Apples and Pears Still Life
Signed lower right
Oil on canvas
8 x 10 inches
Georgina Klitgaard’s art has sometimes gotten lost in the critical propensity to assign artists to membership in one school or another. Unfortunately for her posthumous reputation, Klitgaard defied easy characterization. She was a U.S. modernist, working in both oil and watercolors, but never abandoned figurative painting. She made her reputation in landscape but also excelled in portraits, flower studies, and even cityscapes. Yet despite Klitgaard’s ambiguous status in art history, her paintings continue to fascinate viewers attracted to the unsteady ground between twentieth-century realism and expressionism.
Georgina Klitgaard (née Berrian) was born in Spuyten Duyvil, New York (now part of the Bronx); the Berrians had lived in the area since at least the U.S. Revolution. After graduating from Barnard College, she studied art at the National Academy of Design. In 1919 she married Kay Klitgaard, a Danish artist and writer. The next year, her life took a decisive turn when the couple visited friends in Woodstock, NY—about 120 miles north of New York City--and fell in love with the area.
In 1906, L. Birge Harrison helped found the Art Students League Summer School in Woodstock and the area became a magnet for landscape painters. The Klitgaards bought a house in 1922 on a steep ledge at the end of Cricket Ridge, high above Bearsville, which provided panoramic vistas overlooking the Catskill Mountains and the Hudson Valley. Klitgaard joined the artists’ colony in the area, which at the time included artists Ernest Fiene and Katherine Schmidt.
Klitgaard exhibited widely and her career slowly developed momentum. She was a regular contributor at Whitney Museum shows from 1927 to 1944. In 1929, she exhibited a painting entitled “Carousel” in the Whitney Studio Club’s famous exhibition “Circus in Paint.” Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney acquired five paintings by Klitgaard in the early 1930s and served as a significant patron for the artist. Klitgaard s New York dealer, Frank Rehn...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Modernist Abstract Still Life Painting with Red-Orange Zinnias, American Art
Located in Denver, CO
This captivating oil on board painting by Paul Kauvar Smith (1893–1977) showcases a vibrant American Modernist still life featuring zinnia flowers in hues of red and orange. Set with...
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20th Century Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
$2,250 Sale Price
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"Flowering Cactus"
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 ...
Category
1950s Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage American Modernist Abstract Nature Study Original Realist Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist abstract oil painting by Mark DiVincenzo. Oil on canvas, circa 2005. Signed verso. Unframed.
Category
Early 2000s Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Portrait of a mysterious rose" Original floral painting. vertical. Oil /canvas
Located in Oslo, NO
In this painting, I've infused my passion for the delicate interplay of light and shadow with acrylics, sprays, and inks. The painstaking realism brings forth the rose's enigmatic bl...
Category
2010s Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Ink, Acrylic
Mid Century Modern Expressive Still Life Oil Painting - Objects by the Window
Located in Bristol, GB
OBJECTS BY THE WINDOW
Size: 67 x 59 cm (including frame)
Oil on canvas
A striking and energetic mid-century expressionist style interior still life painting, executed in oil onto ca...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Modern still-life paintings for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Modern 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 orange, red and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Moshe Rosenthalis, Jack Hooper, Betsy Podlach, and Valton Tyler. 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 Modern still-life paintings, so small editions measuring 5.12 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 $532 and tops out at $14,000, while the average work sells for $1,900.