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"Because the Night VE 1/5" Intaglio, hand colored, floral, orange flames
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Because the Night VE 1/5" is a variable edition piece by Kate VanVliet and is made from two-plate etching with aquatint, soft ground and relief chine colle on Rive...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Archival Paper, Color, Etching, Intaglio, Aquatint

Unique Modernist Israeli Still Life Monoprint Painting Calman Shemi Vase Flowers
Located in Surfside, FL
Fruit and Flowers monoprint by Calman Shemi Calman Shemi, sculptor and painter, was born in Argentina in 1939. A graduate of the School of Sculpture and Ceramics in Mendoza, he studied under the Italian-Argentinean sculptor Libero Badii whom he credits with putting him on the right path. “He taught me principals, not only related to sculpture, but human and philosophic principals. Shemi also carefully studied the work of such masters as Pablo Picasso, Caravaggio, Frank Stella and Henri Matisse. “From each one of these great artists I learned something from observing them,” he says. In 1961, at the age of 20, Shemi immigrated to Israel and joined Kibbutz Carmia of which he was a member for twenty years. There he worked in agriculture and also as a sculptor working with wood and clay. Several of his large-scale fiberglass and polyester sculpture projects are situated in public buildings. He was a student of German-Israeli sculptor Rudi Lehmann, a pioneer of the artistic movement known as “Canaanism.” Canaanite art was an effort to create a direct relationship with the land, bypassing historic Jewish connotations—hence the land’s primordial name is used. Canaanite works, with an emphasis on the inter-action of simple shapes, bear a deliberate resemblance to the sculpture and ritual art of early civilizations of the Middle East prior to Judaism, always with an eye to the fusion of man and the land itself. Though sculpture dominated his early years as an artist, in the mid ’70s Shemi developed the idea of the “soft painting” medium. Beginning with a color drawing done to scale, Shemi layers onto the drawing irregularly shaped pieces of variously textured and colored fabrics. Using a threadless 9,000-needle sewing machine, the fabrics are meshed to one another and to the background, resulting in vibrant wool tapestry carpet compositions infused with exuberant color and explosive movement. Over the years, Shemi has continued to challenge himself with new artistic mediums, developing two more techniques of painting: “Lacquer paintings” and “window paintings.” He also works in monotype, lithograph and silkscreen techniques. He creates his Lacquer Painting by applying vibrant colors to wood or metal panel that has been gilded with gold or silver leaf, and sometimes both. After the oil paint has thoroughly dried, many layers of lacquer are applied to the surface giving it a glowing effect. Between each layer of lacquer the piece is hand-polished to give the surface its very shiny look. Shemi’s “lacquer” and “window” paintings are reminiscent of ancient techniques used centuries ago in Japan and China. Shemi concludes, “All of the art that I create is full of optimism and beauty. That’s all. Simple, very simple.” During the past eighteen years Shemi has held more than seventy one-man shows in the U.S., Japan, Germany, Spain, Belgium and Israel. His works can be seen in many public and private collections around the world. He is of a generation of contemporary Israeli artists, somewhat influenced by pop art that include Alex Pauker...
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20th Century Abstract Expressionist Still-life Prints

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Monoprint

Alexander Calder, Two Pyramids and Spirals, from Derriere le miroir, 1954
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by Alexander Calder (1898–1976), titled Deux pyramides et spirales (Two Pyramids and Spirals), from the folio Derriere le miroir, No. 69–70, originates from...
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1950s Modern Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Still Life - Offset Print after Giorgio Morandi - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Still Life is a Photolithograph print, reproducing the original watercolor by Giorgio Morandi created in 1932. The signature by the artist is perfectly reproduced on the plate and d...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Still-life Prints

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Offset

Champignons, French antique mushroom fungi chromolithograph, 1910
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'5. Amanita Mappa 6. Amanita junquillea' Antique French mushroom / fungi chromolithograph. From "Atlas des champignons de France, Suisse et Belgique," an atlas of French, Swiss, an...
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Early 20th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Spotted Leopard and Iris, Photorealist Screenprint by Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Photorealist flower screenprint by American artist Lowell Blair Nesbitt, signed and numbered in pencil. Title: Spotted Leopard and Iris Year: 1981 Medium: Serigraph, signed and num...
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1980s American Realist Still-life Prints

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Screen

Prestigious
Located in Slovak Republic, SK
Fine Art Print, photographed in the US., Limited edition.
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Still-life Prints

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Archival Paper, Black and White, Archival Pigment

Prestigious
$264 Sale Price
81% Off
Magritte, Composition, Les chants de Maldoror (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin papier pur chiffon paper. Paper Size: 10 x 7.375 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Les chants de Maldoror, illustrat...
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1940s Surrealist Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Shepard Fairey "Force Of Nature" Fine Art Letterpress Print Contemporary Street
Located in Draper, UT
With hand-deckled edges. Obey publishing chop in lower left corner. "Both a celebration of nature and a cautionary tale. Waves are beautiful and represent a powerful, hypnotic rhyth...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Screen

Eggs, natural history chromolithograph, circa 1900
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Eggs' Antique English natural history chromolithograph. Key to eggs below the image. Tiny numbers in the margins to identify the eggs. Sheet 19cm by 12.5cm, image 13cm by 9.5cm.
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Early 1900s Naturalistic Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Champignons, French antique mushroom fungi chromolithograph, 1910
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'127. Entoloma lividum' Antique French mushroom / fungi chromolithograph. From "Atlas des champignons de France, Suisse et Belgique," an atlas of French, Swiss, and Belgian fungi, ...
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Early 20th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Man Ray, Composition, Man Ray (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Man Ray, 1984. Published by Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Ni...
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1980s Surrealist Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

I love You
Located in London, GB
Peter Blake I Love You, 2010 Screenprint in colours with gold and silver leaf on wove paper Framed 136.5 x 42 cm Edition of 175 hand-signed and numbered by the artist published by CC...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Gold Leaf

Disco
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THIS PIECE: Disco is from Kimberly's "personal moments of happiness" series. LA based photographer Kimberly Genevieve is known for her use of color and interesting cropping. A...
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2010s Still-life Prints

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Photographic Paper

Misty Laurel Diptych (Two 23 x 18 inch cyanotypes)
Located in Oakland, CA
This pair of monotypes contain the silhouette of a single branch of the native Californian Bay laurel. Although they look like screen prints or block prints these are cyanotypes, a f...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram

Barneys NY
Located in Slovak Republic, SK
Fine Art Print, limited editions.
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Still-life Prints

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Archival Paper, Black and White

Barneys NY
$1,131 Sale Price
20% Off
Silver Rock Melon: A Framed 19th C. Color Engraving by George Brookshaw
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a 19th century colored aquatint and stipple engraving finished by hand entitled "Silver Rock Melon", drawn and engraved by George Brookshaw and published in London in 1812 as plate 67 in his 'Pomona Britannica; or, A Collection of the Most Esteemed Fruits'. It depicts a Silver Rock Melon still on the vine, but the melon lies on a heater green mat. A wedge of the melon has been dissected to reveal its inner anatomy, including the seeds. The melon skin is a heather and light green color, while the inner portions are a light peach color. The vine and leaves are shown attractive shades of light green and there are soft yellow flowers. The plant is displayed on a light brown textured background with shadows to impart 3-dimensionality. The scene is reminiscent of an engraving in an 18th century artistically stylized human anatomy atlas. There are wide white margins. The title and inscription lies within the lower border. This striking engraving is presented in a reddish brown decorative wood frame with a darker brown scroll-work outer trim and a gold-colored inner fillet and a thick heather green mat. The frame measures 25.75" high, 21.5" wide and 1.13" deep. It is glazed with UV conservation glass. There is a short thin vertical line of discoloration in the lower margin through the word "melon" and a tiny spot in the upper margin on the left. The print and frame are otherwise in excellent condition. There is a second Brookshaw engraving that is framed in identical moulding, although a slightly different size and a different color mat. t depicts a cluster of grapes. The two prints would make a striking display pairing...
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Early 19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints

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Engraving, Aquatint

Forced Shrubs, English antique flower botanical chromolithograph, 1896
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Forced Shrubs' Flowers are numbered with a key to the varieties below the image. Antique English flower botanical chromolithograph.
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Late 19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Flowering Cotton Plant: 18th Century Hand-colored Weinmann Botanical Engraving
Located in Alamo, CA
This striking hand-colored botanical mezzotint and line engraving is entitled "Gnaphalium, Gossypium (Cotton Plant)". It is plate 551 in Johann Weinmann's monumental publication "Phy...
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Mid-18th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints

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Engraving, Mezzotint

Sunflowers
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Sunflowers by Bernard Buffet, published by MaGraff, a French-Canadian publisher renowned for its fine editions in the early 1970s (now defunct). This reproduction, created as a scree...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Still-life Prints

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Screen

Sunflowers
$300 Sale Price
20% Off
Bodegon, 1979 Signed Abstract Still Life Etching by Juan Manuel Gomez-Quiroz
Located in Long Island City, NY
Bodegon by Juan Manuel Gomez-Quiroz, Chilean (1939–2021) Date: 1979 Etching, signed, titled, numbered and dated in pencil Edition of 65 Image Size: 29.5 x 23.5 inches Size: 35.75 x 2...
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1970s Abstract Still-life Prints

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Etching

Azaleas, English antique flower botanical chromolithograph, 1896
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Azaleas' Flowers are numbered with a key to the varieties below the image. Antique English flower botanical chromolithograph.
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Late 19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Still Life #2, Hand-Colored Abstract Still Life by Juan Manuel Gomez-Quiroz
Located in Long Island City, NY
Still Life #2 Juan Manuel Gomez-Quiroz Chilean (1939–2021) Date: 1981 Hand-Colored Etching, signed, titled, numbered and dated in pencil Edition of 19/65 Image Size: 19.75 x 29 inc...
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1980s Abstract Still-life Prints

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Etching

Calder, Sans titre, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.5 x 9.25 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Calder. Published and printed by Musée National d'A...
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1960s Modern Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Flora Italiana ( Anemone Rosso ) - 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 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, Archival Pigment

Green Willow I (24 x 18 inch hand-printed cyanotype)
Located in Oakland, CA
Though this unique monotype looks like a woodcut or linocut, it is not. This is a cyanotype, a kind of lensless photography dating back to the 1800s, but the artist altered the ratio...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Archival Paper, Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram

Hardy Phloxes, English antique flower botanical chromolithograph, 1896
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Hardy Phloxes' Flowers are numbered with a key to the varieties below the image. Antique English flower botanical chromolithograph.
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Late 19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Eggs, natural history chromolithograph, circa 1900
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Eggs' Antique English natural history chromolithograph. Key to eggs below the image. Tiny numbers in the margins to identify the eggs. Sheet 19cm by 12.5cm, image 13cm by 9.5cm.
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Early 1900s Naturalistic Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

1967 Volkswagen Samba/Kombi Bus – Limited Edition Giclée print, classic VW icon
Located in Denver, CO
Shan Fannin’s 1967 Volkswagen Samba/Kombi Bus is an unframed limited edition giclée print on 230 gsm premium archival matte paper measuring 28 x 28 in (71.12 x 71.12 cm); image size ...
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2010s Photorealist Still-life Prints

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Giclée

"Air Jordan" 50x60 Nike Michael Jordan, Sneakers, Photography Fine Art Unsigned
Located in Los Angeles, CA
"Air Jordan" 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 hundre...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Still-life Prints

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Archival Pigment

Tulips in a Vase
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Tulips in a Vase" 1995 is an original color lithograph on Wove paper by noted American artist Gary Bukovnik, born 1947. It is hand signed, dated and numbered 169/200 in...
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Mid-20th Century American Realist Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Eternity: Pompeii in the Shadow of Vesuvius
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This work, by Fidel Santos, depicts a Pompeiian fresco resplendent with lush fruit trees and avian life against a backdrop of idyllic hills. The vibrant c...
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21st Century and Contemporary Renaissance Still-life Prints

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Plexiglass, Archival Ink

Paintbrushes in a Pitcher - Still Life Etching by Don Weygandt (#20/150)
Located in Soquel, CA
Paintbrushes in a Pitcher - Still Life Etching by Don Weygandt (#20/150) Elegant lithograph of a pitcher holding paintbrushes by Don Weygandt (American, 1926-2018). This piece has a...
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1990s American Modern Still-life Prints

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Paper, Ink, Etching

Objects in the Study - Phototype after Renato Guttuso - 1961
Located in Roma, IT
Objects in the Study is an artwork realized after the Italian artist  Renato Guttuso  (Bagheria, 1911 – Rome, 1987) in 1961. Phototype print..  Good condition. Italian title on th...
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1960s Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Offset

Champignons, French antique mushroom fungi chromolithograph, 1910
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'275. Aleuria vesiculosa 276. Otidea onotica 277. Peziza aurantia 278. Mitrula paludosa' Antique French mushroom / fungi chromolithograph. From "Atlas des champignons de France, Su...
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Early 20th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Eight 18th century-era fashion plates from the portfolio Modes, by M. Connat
Located in Middletown, NY
Eight 18th century-era fashion plates from the portfolio Modes, by Madeleine Connat. Paris: Paris Etching Society, 1951. Each an engraving with hand coloring in watercolor on cream ...
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18th Century French School Still-life Prints

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Watercolor, Engraving

Pumpkin (YT) (1996), Screenprint Ed. 88/120 by Yayoi Kusama (ABE 228)
Located in Hong Kong, HK
Yayoi Kusama Pumpkin (YT), Edition 88/120. Screenprint [3 screens, 2 colors, 3 runs]. Edition 88/120 Image: 29.8 x 22.8 cm. Sheet: 40 x 32.5 cm. Framed: 48 x 40 x 2 cm. Published in ...
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1990s Pop Art Still-life Prints

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Screen

Green Willow II (24 x 18 inch hand-printed cyanotype)
Located in Oakland, CA
Though this unique monotype looks like a woodcut or linocut, it is not. This is a cyanotype, a kind of lensless photography dating back to the 1800s, but the artist altered the ratio...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Archival Paper, Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram

Erhu
Located in Dallas, TX
Erhu is a signed and numbered time-limited edition of giclée prints. The erhu, or spike fiddle, typically has two strings, but the instrument being played here is missing a tuning sp...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Erhu
Erhu
$768 Sale Price
80% Off
Schizanthus Priestii, antique botanical white flower engraving
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Engraving with original hand-colouring. 1834. 230mm by 155mm. From Paxton's 'Magazine of botany and register of flowering plants' by Sir Joseph Paxton.
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Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints

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Engraving

Damien Hirst's Dog, Pictures of Famous Artist's Pets, Damien Hirst Spots Style
Located in Deddington, GB
Damien Hirst’s Dog by Mychael Barratt Limited edition art print Handmade Woodcut on paper Edition of 100 Signed and Titled Complete size of sheet: 63 ...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Paper, Woodcut

Artist's room , 70x70cm, print on canvas.Edition 20 pcs.
Located in Yerevan, AM
Artist's room , 70x70cm, print on canvas Edition 20 pcs.
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2010s Pop Art Still-life Prints

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Canvas, Color

French Modernist Mourlot Lithograph Vintage Air France Poster Roger Bezombes
Located in Surfside, FL
Vintage French Travel Poster, Air france Roger Bezombes (1913-1994) French Bezombes was a painter, sculptor, medalist, and designer. He studied in Paris, at the École des Beaux-Arts...
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1980s Modern Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Still Life - Woodcut Print by Domenico Cantatore - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Still Life is a contemporary artwork realized by Domenico Cantatore in the mid-20th Century. Mixed colored woodcut print. Edition 52/75. Hand signed by the artist on the lower marg...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Still-life Prints

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Woodcut

Flowering Chestnut Plant: 18th C. Hand-colored Botanical Engraving by Weinmann
Located in Alamo, CA
This hand-colored botanical mezzotint and line engraving by Johann Wilhelm Weinmann (1683-1741) is entitled "Castanea Equina, Chateignier amaire (Horse Chestnut)". It is plate 342 in...
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Mid-18th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints

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Engraving, Mezzotint

Juan Gris, Still Life, 1929 (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph and pochoir after Juan Gris (1887–1927), titled Nature morte (Still Life), from the album L'Art Cubiste, Theories et Realisations, Etude Critique (Cubist Ar...
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1920s Cubist Still-life Prints

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Stencil, Lithograph

Still Life - Lithograph by Gino Severini - 1964/1965
Located in Roma, IT
Still life is an original modern artwork realizeb by Gino Severini in 1964/65. Original LIthograph in 10 colors. Hand signed and numbered on the lower margin. Edition of II/XV. R...
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1960s Futurist Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Singer I (Distorted perspective with shadows of an old Singer typewriter)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Carol Wax's mezzotint, "Singer I", shows a distorted view of an old Singer sewing machine. The artist created a convincing illusion of real mass, space and depth. Issued in an edit...
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1980s Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Mezzotint

The Four Seasons - Spring, original, contemporary, landscape, print, silkscreen
Located in Deddington, GB
Silkscreen Image Size H 50 x 66cm Framed Size H 73 x 88cm Edition of 100 Image size: Height: 50cm (19.69 in) Width: 66cm (25.98 in) Complete size of sheet (sheet sizes may vary) He...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Paper

Raoul Dufy, Wildflowers, from Esprit de la fleur et du fruit, 1954 (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph after Raoul Dufy (1877–1953), titled Fleurs des champs (Wildflowers), from the folio Eaux-de-vie, Esprit de la fleur et du fruit (Spirits, Essence of the Fl...
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1950s Modern Still-life Prints

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Lithograph, Stencil

Red Geranium: An 18th Century Hand-colored Botanical Engraving by J. Weinmann
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an original antique colored botanical mezzotint and line engraving of flowering Red Geraniums which is finished with hand-coloring. It is entitled "Geranium Anemones folio Af...
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Mid-18th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints

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Engraving, Mezzotint

Ipomopsis Elegans, antique botanical red flower engraving
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Engraving with original hand-colouring. 1834. 230mm by 155mm. From Paxton's 'Magazine of botany and register of flowering plants' by Sir Joseph Paxton.
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Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints

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Engraving

Hydnum Coralloides, Leuba antique mushroom fungi chromolithograph print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'1 Hydnum Coralloides 2 Hydnum Erinaceus' (Coral Tooth Fungus and Lion mane's mushroom) Antique Swiss mushroom / fungi chromolithograph, lithographed by H Furrer after Fritz Leuba. ...
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Late 19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Ribes sanguineum, antique botanical pink flower engraving
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Engraving with original hand-colouring. 1834. 230mm by 155mm. From Paxton's 'Magazine of botany and register of flowering plants' by Sir Joseph Paxton.
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Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints

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Engraving

Flowering Morning Glory: 18th Century Hand-colored Weinmann Botanical Engraving
Located in Alamo, CA
This hand-colored botanical mezzotint and line engraving by Johann Wilhelm Weinmann (1683-1741) is entitled "A. Convolvulus Major Folio Subrotundo Purpureg Albo, B. Convolvulus Major...
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Mid-18th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints

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Engraving, Mezzotint

"60x48" FRIDA KAHLO Photomosaic Pop Art Archival Fine Art Photography Print
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Frida is a 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 of smaller i...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Still-life Prints

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Archival Pigment

Lovers under the moon , 70x70cm, print on canvas.Edition 20 pcs.
Located in Yerevan, AM
Lovers under the moon , 70x70cm, print on canvas Edition 20 pcs.
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2010s Pop Art Still-life Prints

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Canvas, Color

Magritte, Composition, Les chants de Maldoror (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin papier pur chiffon paper. Paper Size: 10 x 7.375 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Les chants de Maldoror, illustrat...
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1940s Surrealist Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Azalea Pulchra, antique botanical flower engraving
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Engraving with original hand-colouring. 1834. 230mm by 155mm. From Paxton's 'Magazine of botany and register of flowering plants' by Sir Joseph Paxton.
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Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints

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Engraving

Fistulina Hepatica, Leuba antique mushroom fungi chromolithograph print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'1-3 Fistulina Hepatica 4-6 Boletus Chrysentheron' Antique Swiss mushroom / fungi chromolithograph, lithographed by H Furrer after Fritz Leuba. The print is titled with the scientif...
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Late 19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

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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