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Dark Flora: Fly Argaric - mounted print and framed in oak
Located in London, GB
Inspired by Victorian era taxidermy dioramas, 'Dark Flora' is a series of photographs using wild plants and flowers in a curated yet naturalistic arrangement. The plants are foraged ...
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2010s Victorian Still-life Prints

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Color, Oak, Glass, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment

sisterhood , 70x70cm, print on canvas
Located in Yerevan, AM
sisterhood , 70x70cm, print on canvas
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2010s Pop Art Still-life Prints

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Canvas, Color

"Dragones musicales I" contemporary surrealist dragons piano black and white
Located in Ciudad de México, MX
The repetition of patterns and rhythm is present in almost every piece of Pedro´s work. The hybrid topographies that Pedro Friedeberg´s unclassifiable practice recreates we must rec...
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2010s Surrealist Still-life Prints

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Inkjet, Digital

ATO>MIC #8, unique warmed toned, Silver Gelatin Abstract Luminogram Print
Located in London, GB
ATO>MIC #8, 2020 Unique Gelatin Silver Print/ Luminogram and Photogram technique, Printed on tea infused fibre based paper, Framed: Custom made frame with antireflective UV protective art glass 23 x 18 cm approx. image size 38 x 35.5 cm (Framed) Unique Series: ATO>MIC Signed on verso Provided with the Certificate of Authenticity “The ATO>MIC work started as an attempt to replicate the idea behind still life painting - where you are trying to reproduce the image of solid looking things, things that could be on a shelf. So, I wanted to try doing that with just using light instead of paints - however I soon started to see the similarities with Harold Edgerton’s famous atomic explosion photos and how the scale of my work could be switched between small items on a shelf to enormous atomic explosions. That is the reason behind the strange title ATO>MIC - where the “>” is a kind of link between larger and smaller scales, between the two influencing ideas.” – Mike Jackson The images may be reminiscent of the first milliseconds of atomic bomb explosions captured by Harold Edgerton's Rapatronic camera in the early 1950s but also visualise the thought of Maholy-Nagy’s bold visions in the Bauhaus’s movement toward the idea of the Gesamtkunstwerk, or “total work of art.” The 3D concepts that were first expanded in the same art movement by El Lissitzky a hundred years ago, are also explored here by Jackson’s drowned thin line within the third of the image. In his vision, the line reflects a shelf with the object on top, by adding the weight to it, the gravity pushing them down. Or maybe the thin line is just the horizon, where the enormous atomic blast took place…? Beyond these flat forms of two dimensional ‘lumino-graphic’ works on paper, the purest form of photography (‘light drawing’) lays a visible path to three-dimensional imaginary world, realised in precise composition, rhythm and warm earthy tones of these works. It’s up to the viewer to decide what they prefer to see and take with them. As Wassily Kandinsky once said; “Imagination is what allows your mind to discover.” About the Artist: Michael G Jackson...
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2010s Abstract Still-life Prints

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Glass, Wood, Archival Paper, Black and White, Bromoil, Silver Gelatin, T...

Calla Lilies, Sill Life Flowers, Pigment Print, from medium format transparency
Located in London, GB
"In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends." - Okakura Kakuzo Calla Lilies - flower study, originally taken on medium format Fujichrome transp...
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1990s Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Archival Pigment, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Color

Ikebana 1
Located in Dallas, TX
For this work, the artist made a printing plate by tracing Ikebana images from Kōyō Ikebana Hyakuheizu, a book of illustrations dating to the late 1700s...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Ink, Archival Paper, Drypoint

Dark Flora #8, Skeletons of the Summer,
Located in London, GB
Even in deep mid winter there still stands, in sheltered places, the bleached skeletal remains of the summer past - delicate and intricate memories of the verdant life that just months before stood lush and green. * Inspired by Victorian era taxidermy dioramas...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment

Rustic Chromogenic Color Print
Located in Fort Worth, TX
Jack, Trent, Texas, Jill Johnson, Chromogenic Color print, Edition of 7, 50 x 50", 2022 Celebrated for her sense of fun, discriminating eye for detail and her insight into vanishing...
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2010s Still-life Prints

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Color

Persephone VI - large format photograph of a timeless environmental still
Located in San Francisco, CA
large scale original photograph from the body of works 'Persephone', a series of environmental still-life photographs of timeless palimpsest impressions Persephone VI by Erik Pawassar 40 x 31 inches (102 x 79cm) signed edition of 25 62 x 48 inches (157 x 122cm) signed edition of 7 archival fine art pigment print signed & numbered by artist on label custom/larger sizes are available on request ____________________________ Erik Pawassar's work focuses on the beauty of the disregarded or mundane object. The subjects for his striking and captivating visuals are typically set in the most ordinary environments, drawing the viewer into a charged but serene experience based on composition, palette and formal lines. Saturated in color, the nominal subjects gather a haunting and mesmerizing quality, creating a poignant pretext for the making of a formal color photograph. Decisively capturing the traces left by humanity, Pawassar's images are filled with a sense of universal nostalgia and pay homage to the passage of time and the extinguished moment, referencing documentary and street photographers like Henri Cartier-Bresson, Sebastian...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Archival Paper, Giclée, Archival Ink, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment

HOPE - 4 conceptual still life photographs spelling motivational word
Located in San Francisco, CA
large scale conceptual environmental still life photographs playing with viewer's perspective creating individual letters from found objects spelling the word HOPE H-O-P-E by Christian Stoll Focusing in on this epic photograph work, you will find yourself lost in the artwork's details. Reminiscent of the appropriation artwork of Vik Muniz, Christian Stoll arranges everyday objects to spell letters of the alphabet. Only at close inspection does the viewer realize he/she is looking at an actual photograph, created in camera rather than with digital manipulation. _________________________ Artwork can be installed vertically or horizontally and across multiple walls 4 individual photographs individual artwork size 24 x 24 inches (61 x 61cm) horizontal artwork...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper

Long Live the Heroine
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Edition 2 of 3. Medium: Cut vinyl on paper
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21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Vinyl

50 + 10
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Edition 2 of 3. Medium: Cut vinyl on paper
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21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Vinyl

Retro, Red, Chromogenic Color Print
Located in Fort Worth, TX
Corvair 95, Ackerly, Texas, Jill Johnson, Chromogenic Color Print, Edition of 7, 50 x 50", 2022 Celebrated for her sense of fun, discriminating eye for detail and her insight into v...
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2010s Still-life Prints

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Color

Boombox
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Nick Veasey Boombox 47 x 47 inches Edition 9 Digital C print Diasec Framed Signed and numbered Also available in the following size 23 x 23 inches / Edition 25 Nick Veasey X ray Art...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Digital

Persephone III - large format photograph of a timeless environmental still
Located in San Francisco, CA
large scale original photograph from the body of works 'Persephone', a series of environmental still-life photographs of timeless palimpsest impressions Persephone III by Erik Pawassar 40 x 31 inches (102 x 79cm) signed edition of 25 62 x 48 inches (157 x 122cm) signed edition of 7 archival fine art pigment print signed & numbered by artist on label custom/larger sizes are available on request ____________________________ Erik Pawassar's work focuses on the beauty of the disregarded or mundane object. The subjects for his striking and captivating visuals are typically set in the most ordinary environments, drawing the viewer into a charged but serene experience based on composition, palette and formal lines. Saturated in color, the nominal subjects gather a haunting and mesmerizing quality, creating a poignant pretext for the making of a formal color photograph. Decisively capturing the traces left by humanity, Pawassar's images are filled with a sense of universal nostalgia and pay homage to the passage of time and the extinguished moment, referencing documentary and street photographers like Henri Cartier-Bresson, Sebastian Salgado...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Archival Pigment, Photographic Paper

I'll Be Dining Alone Tonight
Located in New York, NY
Matthew Brannon is best known for his letterpress and screen prints of incongruous combinations of images and text. These prints are rendered in a subtle, stripped-down aesthetic, ev...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Lithograph, Screen

Paper
Located in London, GB
Woodcut, 2005, on wove paper, signed, dated and numbered from the edition of 20 in pencil, published by Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, sheet: 59.7 x 39.7 cm. (23.5 x 15.6 in.)
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Early 2000s Pop Art Still-life Prints

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Woodcut

Colour print of Anthurium flower in red green and yellow
Located in London, GB
“Nature creates nothing without the purpose” - Aristotele Anthurium - flower study, originally taken on medium format Fujichrome transparency colour film in the studio setting, in 1...
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1990s Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Archival Pigment

Night Light Reality
Located in Slovak Republic, SK
Fine art print, photo, available in different sizes.
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21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Archival Paper

Nine Objects / Neun Objekte
Located in London, GB
GERHARD RICHTER b. 1932 Born in Dresden 1932 (German) Title: Nine Objects / Neun Objekte, 1969 Technique: Original Hand Signed, Dated and Numbered Portfolio with 9 Offset Lithograp...
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1960s Still-life Prints

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Lithograph, Offset

“Still Life with Robot” Contemporary Still-life Photo with Vintage Typewriter
Located in Brooklyn, NY
“Still Life with Robot” continues my exploration of vintage tech begun in my "Tech Vanitas" series. Surrounded by rich silks and patterned wallpapers, playful still lifes of familiar...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Archival Pigment

Flora ll - large format photograph of abstract floral and liquid cloud explosion
Located in San Francisco, CA
large format photograph from a series of colorful floral explosions, flower power and liquid clouds captured in water FLORA lI by Christian Stoll 27 x 40 inches (68.5 x 102cm) sign...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Archival Paper, Giclée, Archival Ink, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment

Honey Yellow Lily
Located in New York, NY
In many of his prints, Ed Baynard presents familiar still-life scenes, such as flowers in vases. He reduces the compositions, divorcing the forms from a context, thus accentuating th...
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Late 20th Century Modern Still-life Prints

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Screen

Flora Italiana ( Waratah Red ) - large format botanical still life photograph
Located in San Francisco, CA
Original large format still life photograph from Linda Rosewall's series "Flora Italiana", an intensely beautiful body of works exploring the botanical splendor of Italian flowers with highly detailed captures Flora Italiana ( Waratah Red ) 64 x 48 inches (162 x 122cm) signed edition of 7 40 x 30 inches (102 x 76cm) signed edition of 25 archival fine art pigment print signed & numbered by artist on label custom/larger sizes are available on request ___________________ About the artist Linda Rosewall’s artistic path was cemented during her childhood. She was inspired by her farther, an accomplished musician and composer who raised his six children as a performing family act. The experience of traveling the United States and Canada in a small airplane piloted by her father provided the opportunity for Linda to capture these moments on her small Kodak Instamatic Camera. At the age of 18, she enrolled at Columbia College of Fine Arts Chicago. During her studies, Linda apprenticed under photographer Norman Bilisko and later worked with Dennis Manarchy...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Giclée, Archival Pigment

STILL LIFE (BLUE), BY NICOLAS PARTY (2023)
Located in London, GB
NICOLAS PARTY STILL LIFE (BLUE), 2023 4 Colour offset print on thick matte paper. 30 × 30 cm Edition of 100 Produced by MUSEUM FRIEDER BURDA.
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

STILL LIFE (ROCKS), BY NICOLAS PARTY (2023)
Located in London, GB
NICOLAS PARTY STILL LIFE (ROCKS), 2023 4 Colour offset print on thick matte paper. 30 × 30 cm Edition of 100 Produced by MUSEUM FRIEDER BURDA.
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

STILL LIFE (RED), BY NICOLAS PARTY (2023)
Located in London, GB
NICOLAS PARTY STILL LIFE (RED), 2023 4 Colour offset print on thick matte paper. 30 × 30 cm Edition of 100 Produced by MUSEUM FRIEDER BURDA.
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Dining Room with Horse Painting
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Dining Room with Horse Painting Aquatint on Hahnemuhle Copperplate paper, 2008 Signed in pencil and numbered lower left Published by the Print Club of Cleveland, Publication No.88, 2...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Aquatint

Floral Bouquet, Silkscreen by Nadine Prado
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Nadine Prado Title: Flower Bouquet Year: 1979 Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 300, 25 AP Paper Size: 30 in. x 30 in. (76.2 cm x 76.2 cm)
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1970s Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Screen

Louise Bourgeois, Sheaves (Version 1) - Original Hand-signed Print
Located in Hamburg, DE
Louise Bourgeois (French-American, 1911-2010) Sheaves (Version 1), 1984 Medium: Lithograph on wove paper Dimensions: 45 x 28.4 cm (17 15/16 x 11 3/16 in) Edition of 90: Hand-signed a...
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20th Century Conceptual Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Flowers 1964, Pop Art Screenprint by Andy Warhol
Located in Long Island City, NY
This screenprint poster by Andy Warhol features the iconic four flowers motif that he regularly used for a variety of prints and paintings. These four flowers appear on a green backg...
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1970s Pop Art Still-life Prints

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Screen

New Still-life Photograph with Vintage Typewriter, “Still Life with Robot”
Located in Brooklyn, NY
My newest photograph, “Still Life with Robot,” continues the exploration of vintage tech begun in my earlier “Tech Vanitas” series. Surrounded by rich silks and patterned wallpapers, playful still lifes of familiar devices suggest 17th Century Dutch paintings. My photographs display a fascination with vintage gadgets...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Archival Pigment

Salvador Dali - Fight Before la Dame - Original Handsigned Etching
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Original Handsigned Etching From La Quête du Graal Dimensions: 45 x 33 cm Handsigned Edition: 38/100 (from the rare deluxe suite aside from the standard edition) Cat...
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1970s Surrealist Still-life Prints

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Etching

On the balcony , 70x70cm, print on canvas
Located in Yerevan, AM
On the balcony , 70x70cm, print on canvas
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2010s Pop Art Still-life Prints

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Canvas, Color

Flora Italiana ( Papavero Giallo Fiorito ) - large format botanical still life
Located in San Francisco, CA
Original large format still life photograph from Linda Rosewall's series "Flora Italiana", an intensively beautiful body of works exploring the botanica...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Giclée

Flora Italiana ( Papavero Giallo Fiorito ) - large botanical still life photo
Located in San Francisco, CA
Original large format still life photograph from Linda Rosewall's series "Flora Italiana", an intensively beautiful body of works exploring the botanica...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Archival Ink, Giclée, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper

Pool Boy - Fluro, Figurative art print, Pop art, David Hockney style art
Located in Deddington, GB
Pool boy – Fluro by Gavin Dobson [2021] Limited Edition CMYK screen-print Signed by artist Edition number 40 Image size: H:50 cm x W:35 cm Complete Size of Un...
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2010s Pop Art Still-life Prints

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Paper, Mixed Media, Screen

Flora Italiana ( Papavero Bianco ) - large scale botanical still life photograph
Located in San Francisco, CA
Original large format still life photograph from Linda Rosewall's series "Flora Italiana", an intensely beautiful body of works exploring the botanical splendor of Italian flowers with highly detailed captures Flora Italiana ( Papavero Bianco ) delicate white poppy flower petals 64 x 48 inches (162 x 122cm) signed edition of 7 40 x 30 inches (102 x 76cm) signed edition of 25 archival fine art pigment print signed & numbered by artist on label custom/larger sizes are available on request ___________________ About the artist Linda Rosewall’s artistic path was cemented during her childhood. She was inspired by her farther, an accomplished musician and composer who raised his six children as a performing family act. The experience of traveling the United States and Canada in a small airplane piloted by her father provided the opportunity for Linda to capture these moments on her small Kodak Instamatic Camera. At the age of 18, she enrolled at Columbia College of Fine Arts Chicago. During her studies, Linda apprenticed under photographer Norman Bilisko and later worked with Dennis Manarchy...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Giclée

Wilderness, Orange Contemporary Surrealist Graphic Style Handmade Print
Located in Deddington, GB
Wilderness by Chris Keegan [2022] Please note that insitu images are purely an indication of how a piece may look This is a hand-pulled limited edition screen print in three colours including Gold metallic ink. The inspiration for this print comes from wandering through a forest, looking up and seeing the changing patterns and shapes as the different types of trees overlap and intersect with each other. Limited edition of 50. Its 40 x 40 cm. Artwork printed on Southbank smooth 250 gsm. £. Chris Keegan artist online and in Wychwood Art Gallery...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Paper, Screen

“Parasol in Pastel” Poster. Copyright Donald Art Co, 1985.
Located in Clinton Township, MI
Poster. Measures 22 x 28 in. Unframed. Copyright Donald Art Co, 1985. Good Condition (i.e. creasing and indentation).
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1980s Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Flora Italiana ( Papavero Arancio Piene ) - large botanical still life photo
Located in San Francisco, CA
Original large format still life photograph from Linda Rosewall's series "Flora Italiana", an intensely beautiful body of works exploring the botanical ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Giclée, Archival Pigment

Three Sisters
Located in New York, NY
Will Mentor received his BFA at the Rhode Island School of Design and arrived on the New York art scene in the early 1980’s, gaining instant success for what critics referred to as h...
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1990s Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Ferns - Nephrolepis Ensifolia, antique fern botanical colour woodblock print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Antique 19th century fern colour woodblock by Benjamin Fawcett after AF Lydon. From Edward J. Lowe’s 'Ferns: British and Exotic', 1867. Accompanied by a sheet of descriptive text. ...
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Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Camellia Japonica Incarnata
Located in London, GB
Archival digital print on wove paper. Edition 31/250. Printed by Coriander Press. Published by Chiswick House and Gardens. Signed and numbered by the artist.
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2010s Pop Art Still-life Prints

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Digital Pigment

Calder, Les Fleurs
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Alexander Calder (1898-1976) Title: Les Fleurs Year: Circa 1970-1976 Medium: Lithograph on Arches paper Size: 22.50 x 19.50 inches Condition: Excellent Notes: Published by XX...
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1970s Modern Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Honesty in a Pink Vase and Marguerites in a Green Jug diptych
Located in Deddington, GB
Honesty in a Pink Vase and Marguerites in a Green Jug diptych Overall size cm : H120 x W120 Honesty in a Pink Vase by Amy Christie is a limited edition pri...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Paper, Giclée

Dark Flora Autumn Weald in Floral arrangement of wild flowers and plants, Framed
Located in London, GB
Dark Flora #4 - Autumn Weald: An arrangement of cloth of gold, pine, beech, and bracken surrounding a nest of exquisite blue eggs. Archival Pigment Print, Mounted on Aluminium, in bespoke Oak Framed, Edition 3/8 Print size: 75 x 54 cm Framed: 80 x 60 cm approx. Inspired by Victorian era taxidermy dioramas...
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2010s Victorian Still-life Prints

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Archival Pigment, Glass, Wood, Oak, Photographic Paper, Color

Still life , 70x70cm, print on canvas
Located in Yerevan, AM
Still life , 70x70cm, print on canvas
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2010s Pop Art Still-life Prints

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Canvas, Color

By the sea , 70x70cm, print on canvas
Located in Yerevan, AM
By the sea, 70x70cm, print on canvas
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2010s Pop Art Still-life Prints

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Canvas, Color

Butterflies
Located in New York, NY
In many of his prints, Ed Baynard presents familiar still-life scenes, such as flowers in vases. He reduces the compositions, divorcing the forms from a context, thus accentuating th...
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Late 20th Century Modern Still-life Prints

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Screen

Matisse, Flowers I, Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin du Marais paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire, Vol. IV, N° 13, Novem...
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1940s Modern Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Still life , 70x70cm, print on canvas
Located in Yerevan, AM
Still life , 70x70cm, print on canvas
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2010s Pop Art Still-life Prints

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Canvas, Color

Morocco , 70x70cm, print on canvas
Located in Yerevan, AM
Still life , 70x70cm, print on canvas
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2010s Pop Art Still-life Prints

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Canvas, Color

Matisse, Fleurs de neige (Duthuit 139), Verve: Revue Artistique (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin du Marais paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire, Vol. IX, N° 35-36...
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1950s Modern Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

sisterhood , 70x70cm, print on canvas
Located in Yerevan, AM
sisterhood , 70x70cm, print on canvas
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2010s Pop Art Still-life Prints

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Canvas, Color

sisterhood , 70x70cm, print on canvas
Located in Yerevan, AM
sisterhood , 70x70cm, print on canvas
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2010s Pop Art Still-life Prints

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Canvas, Color

36x48 "Goodfellas" VHS Photo Photography Pop Art Photograph Fine Art Print
Located in Los Angeles, CA
"The VHS" by pop Artist Destro. We all remember those iconic nights at the video store. Pop artist DESTRO once again encapsulates one of our favorite past times in a fine art con...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Still-life Prints

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Archival Pigment

Rolex Daytona 60x45 6263 Paul Newman Photomosaic Photography Fine Art Unsigned
Located in Los Angeles, CA
"Newman" is an acrylic photomosaic artwork by Destro. The first release in a series mosaic works called "Icons". Destro has created large prints which are made up of many hundreds o...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Still-life Prints

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Archival Pigment

Still-Life Prints and Other Still-Life Wall Art for Sale on 1stDibs

As part of the wall decor in your living room, dining room or elsewhere, original still-life prints and other still-life wall art can look sophisticated alongside your well-curated decorative objects and can help set the mood in a 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, popular still-life prints often 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 still-life 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 that were the subject of their work.

While early examples were primarily figurative, you can find still lifes that belong to different schools and styles of painting and printmaking, such as Cubism, Impressionism and contemporary art.

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.

Still-life art enthusiasts and collectors of Warhol prints have lots of reasons to love the cultural icon — when Warhol brought the image of a Campbell’s soup can out of the supermarket and into the studio, in 1961, he secured his legacy as a radical contemporary artist. After Warhol painted the soup cans, he realized that he could more readily achieve the mass-produced aesthetic he was seeking with silkscreens, also called screen-prints, and he began experimenting with silkscreening on canvas. He used the technique to print paintings of Coke bottles and dollar bills (both in 1962), as well as his treasured Brillo box sculptures (1964).  

When shopping for a still-life print, think about how it makes you feel and how the artist chose to represent its subject. When buying any art for your home, choose pieces that you connect with. If you’re shopping online, read the description of the work to learn about the artist and check the price and shipping information. Make sure that the works you choose complement or relate to your overall theme and furniture style. Artwork can either fit into your room’s color scheme or serve as an accent piece. Introduce new textures to a space by choosing an oil still-life painting.

On 1stDibs, the collection of still-life prints and other still-life wall art includes works by Jonas Wood, Alex Katz, Nina Tsoriti and many more.

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