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Banana Plant: 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 banana plants, which is finished with hand-coloring. It is entitled "Banana 2. Mauze, Baradis-feigen", p...
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Mid-18th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints

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Engraving, Mezzotint

Persephone III - still life of a timeless environmental interior vignette
Located in San Francisco, CA
Persephone III by Erik Pawassar 24 x 19 inches (61 x 48cm) signed edition of 25 40 x 31 inches (102 x 79cm) signed edition of 25 62 x 48 inches (157 x 122cm) signed editio...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Pigment

Sans titre, Derrière le miroir
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 15 x 11 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Derrière le miroir, N° 173, 1968. Published by Aimé Mae...
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1960s Modern Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Pepper Pot from Campbell's Soup
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Pepper Pot from Campbell's Soup" is a screenprint by Pop artist Andy Warhol. The print is signed in ball point pen and lettered, verso, "Andy Warhol L". T...
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1960s Pop Art Still-life Prints

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Screen

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

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Canvas, Color

Fleurs Decoratives
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The piece titled Fleurs Décoratives by Georges Rouault from 1965 reflects his distinctive style of blending expressive brushwork and vivid colors. Rouault's floral compositions often...
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20th Century Modern Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Fleurs Decoratives
$240 Sale Price
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Original Italian Emidio di Nola Italian Macaroni original vintage food poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Emidio di Nola, original Italian pasta poster. Size 19" x 25.5". Professional acid-free archival linen-backed; in excellent condition; ready to frame....
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1950s Aesthetic Movement Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Flora ll - large format photograph of abstract floral and liquid cloud explosion
Located in San Francisco, CA
FLORA lI by Christian Stoll from a series of colorful floral explosions, flower power and liquid clouds captured in water 48 x 71.5 inches (122 x 182cm) signed edition of 7 27 x 40...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Prints

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

Persephone I - still life of a timeless environmental interior vignette
Located in San Francisco, CA
Persephone I by Erik Pawassar 24 x 19 inches (61 x 48cm) signed edition of 25 40 x 31 inches (102 x 79cm) signed edition of 25 62 x 48 inches (157 x 122cm) signed edition ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Archival Ink, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Pigment

Purple Tulips 1
Located in Calabasas, CA
Artist: Alex Katz Title: Purple Tulips 1 Year: 2021 Medium: Archival pigment ink on Innova Etching Cotton Rag 315 gsm fine art paper Edition: 100; signed...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Archival Pigment

Large Donald Saff Surrealist Pop Art Aquatint Etching Bee, Chair, Pot
Located in Surfside, FL
Artist: Donald Saff Medium: Etching with Aquatint, Hand signed and numbered in pencil Donald Jay Saff (born 12 December 1937) is an artist, art historian, educator, and lecturer, sp...
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1980s Pop Art Still-life Prints

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Etching, Aquatint

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

Musk the Rose Blown
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THIS PIECE: Musk of the Rose Blown is about the intimate relationships that abound amidst the natural world. Inspiration for this painting stemmed from my many walks along fore...
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2010s Still-life Prints

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Photographic Paper

Black Tulips and Vase - Contemporary, 21st Century, Silkscreen, Limited Edition
Located in Zug, CH
Donald Sultan, Black Tulips and Vase, Feb. 26, 2014 Contemporary, 21st Century, Silkscreen, Limited Edition Edition of 50 117 x 117 cm (46 x 46 in.) Signed, dated, titled and numbered, accompanied by Certificate of Authenticity In mint condition, as acquired from the publisher PLEASE NOTE: Edition numbers could vary from the one shown in the images. The pictures are only for illustrative reasons, the work is offered unframed. Black Tulips and Vase, Feb 26, 2014, belong to Sultan’s famous Flower series. The artist is credited for the revival of the still life tradition where the image is deconstructed to the basic elements, thus Sultan’s work remains both abstract and representational. "The images... are really about the architecture in the paintings; they seem so massive and strong and permanent but nothing is permanent." — Donal Sultan Black Tulips and Vase, Feb 26, 2014, represents Sultan's still-life, where the shape of the object is reduced to the bare essentials. The image reveals one of the key features of Sultan’s work - the material juxtaposition- the contrast of a weighty background with ethereal shapes of the flowers. The printing technique translates the Sultan’s original paintings’ texture: linoleum, tar, flocking, plaster, tile, wood. This work is a silkscreen with enamel inks and tar-like texture on 4-ply museum board. DONALD SULTAN Donald Sultan (born 1951, Asheville, US) is a distinguished painter, sculptor, and printmaker, who rose to prominence in the late 1970s as part of the “New Image” movement. He is best known for the use of abstracted, geometric black forms against organic areas of bright color. Donald Sultan (USA, born 1951) is a distinguished painter, sculptor, and printmaker, who rose to prominence in the late 1970s as part of the New Yorker “New Image” movement. He has a unique artistic method and innovative approach to traditional subject matter. Known as Abstract Representation, Donald Sultan´s art is characterized by the use of geometric black forms set against organic areas of bright color, thus bringing an abstract sensibility to his iconographic images of still life. Throughout his career he has revisited and reinvented still life, using images of lemons, poppies, playing cards, fruits, flowers, and other objects. Donald Sultan’s Lemons...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Screen

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

Seventies Psychedelic Flowers, Pink Lilys Bouquet, Modern Still Life, Giclée
Located in Barcelona, ES
This is an exclusive limited edition color Giclée print, printed on matte photographic paper. The print measures 36 x 24 inches total, with an image size of 32 x 20 in. and a 2 inch...
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2010s Realist Still-life Prints

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Emulsion, Photographic Paper, C Print, Giclée

Botanical Composition Cyanotype of Vintage Pressed Flowers, White and Blue
Located in Barcelona, ES
This is an exclusive handprinted limited edition cyanotype. Details: + Title: Vintage Pressed Flowers Nº2 + Year: 2023 + Edition Size: 20 + Stamped and Certificate of Authenticity p...
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2010s Baroque Still-life Prints

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Paper, Monotype

Casanova : A Pear for Thirst - Original etching (Field #67-4 I)
Located in Paris, IDF
Salvador DALI (1904-1969) Casanova : A Pear for Thirst, 1967 Original etching Printed signature in the plate On vellum Rives 38 x 28 cm (c. 14.9 x 11 inch) REFERENCES : - Catalog r...
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1960s Surrealist Still-life Prints

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Etching

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

Nu au Bras Leve de Face, Cubist Lithograph after Pablo Picasso
Located in Long Island City, NY
Set against the green background, the geometric figure in this Pablo Picasso print is comprised of numerous rectangular shapes that overlap one another in the typical Cubist fashion....
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Late 20th Century Cubist Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Joan Miro - L'Issue Dérobée - Original Aquatint
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Joan Miro - L'Issue Dérobée - Original Aquatint 1974 Dimensions: 36 x 54 cm Edition: 220 Jacques Dupin, L'Issue Dérobée, Maeght Editeur, Paris, 1974 (C. books 187) Biography Joa...
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1970s Modern Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Sans titre, Derrière le miroir
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 15 x 11 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Derrière le miroir, N° 221, 1976. Published by Aimé Mae...
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1970s Modern Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Ericas and Epacrises, English antique flower botanical chromolithograph, 1896
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Ericas and Epacrises' 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

Peter Doig 'Lapeyrouse Wall' Limited Edition Signed Etching Print
Located in San Rafael, CA
Peter Doig (British, b. 1959). Lapeyrouse Wall, 2004 Etching and aquatint printed in colors on wove paper Signed and dated in pencil by the artist Edition 30/30 Published by the arti...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Etching

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

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

Picasso, Sans titre (J/Vollard 193; Monod 10485), Hélène chez Archimède (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Woodcut on vélin de Montval-Maillol paper. Paper Size: 17.3 x 12.6 inches; image size: 11.4 x 7.9 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné referenc...
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1950s Cubist Still-life Prints

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Woodcut

Boxthorn Japanese, Lyciym japonicum Plate 361
Located in Columbia, MO
Boxthorn Japanese, Lyciym japonicum Plate 361 1797 Hand-colored etching Ed. 1st ed. 9 x 5.25 inches
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1790s Naturalistic Still-life Prints

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Etching

A Flowering Cactus 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 "Cereus Erectus Altissimo Surinamensis (Cereus Cactus Plant)". It is plate...
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Mid-18th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints

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Engraving, Mezzotint

"Air Jordan" 40x50 Nike Michael Jordan, Sneakers, Photography Fine Art Signed
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

Grapes
Located in Dallas, TX
épreuve d'artiste 2/5
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1950s Still-life Prints

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Mezzotint

Sans titre, Derrière le miroir
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 15 x 22 inches, with centerfold, as issued. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Derrière le miroir, N° 69-7...
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1950s Modern Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

White Hamburgh Grape: 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 "White Hamburgh Grape", drawn and engraved by George Brookshaw and published in London in 1812 as plate 60 in his 'Pomona Britannica; or, A Collection of the Most Esteemed Fruits'. It depicts a cluster of pale green grapes still on the vine. The vine and leaves are shown in attractive shades of green and brown. The plant lays on a 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 is a light brown title rectangle in the lower center which is blank, suggesting this may be a more rare preproduction proof. There are wide white margins. 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 light beige mat. The frame measures 26" high, 22" wide and 1.13" deep. It is glazed with UV conservation glass. There is a tiny spot in the lower margin on the left and another in the left margin. 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. It depicts a Silver Rock Melon. 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

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

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

Dendrobium Albo-Sanguineum, antique orchid botanical lithograph print, 1859
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Dendrobium Albo-Sanguineum – White and Sanguine Dendrobium' Orchid lithograph with original hand-colouring , 1859, by Walter Hood Fitch (1817-1892). 25c...
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Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Water Lilies
By Michelle Stuart
Located in New York, NY
Michelle Stuart is an American artist whose work references a range of influences, from history to astronomy and botany, as well as her extensive travels to ancient archaeological sites. Stuart studied in Mexico, France, and at The New School for Social Research in New York. Since the 1960s, Stuart has created a multifaceted body of work including large-scale earth works...
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1990s Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Etching

Water Lilies
$2,000 Sale Price
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Begonias, English antique flower botanical chromolithograph, 1896
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Seedling tuberous Rooted Begonias' Antique English flower botanical chromolithograph.
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Late 19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Württbg Art Association Stuttgart
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This original poster, printed in lithography by renowned German artist HAP Grieshaber, was created for the Württemberg Art Association (Württembergischer Kunstverein) in Stuttgart. T...
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Reliquary L'Abbe, Modern Lithograph by Karl Kasten
Located in Long Island City, NY
Karl Kasten, American (1916 - 2010) - Reliquary L'Abbe, Year: circa 1968, Medium: Lithograph on Arches, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 6/20, Size: 30 x 22 in. (76.2 x 55...
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1960s Modern Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Hillside Place, Modern Lithograph by Robert Kipniss
Located in Long Island City, NY
Robert Kipness was an American painter and printmaker who’s work focused on forms and a pronounced moodiness. This print is signed, numbered, dated, and...
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1980s American Impressionist Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Hole Punch (Jim Dine 30 Bones of My Body portfolio) tool dry point
Located in New York, NY
The hand tool is undoubtedly Jim Dine’s most iconic motif. Meticulously catalogued in rows like scientific specimens or sketched individually, hammers, awls, brushes, saws and screwd...
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1970s Pop Art Still-life Prints

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Drypoint

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

Original "This is what GOD give us ..." vintage poster WW1
Located in Spokane, WA
Original United States Food Administration vintage poster. This is what GOD gives us United States Food Administration. Artist A. Hendee. This is what GOD gives us What are you giving so that others may live? Eat less --wheat --meat --fats --sugar Send more to Europe or they will Stave. A bounty of freshly harvested food is shown in the image. One of the more beautiful posters produced by the United States Food Administration for the war effort. World War 1 posters...
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1910s American Realist Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Champignons, French antique mushroom fungi chromolithograph, 1910
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'118. Cantharellus tubaeformis 119. Cantharellus carbonarius 120. Craterellus cornucopioides' Antique French mushroom / fungi chromolithograph. From "Atlas des champignons de Franc...
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Early 20th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Sans titre, Derrière le miroir
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 15 x 11 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Derrière le miroir, N° 156, 1966. Published by Aimé Mae...
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1960s Modern Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

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

Large-Leaved Saxifrage, English antique flower botanical chromolithograph, 1895
By Frederick William Hulme
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Large-Leaved Saxifrage' Process print from Frederick William Hulme’s ‘Familiar Wild Flowers’, circa 1890. Hulme was known as a teacher and an amateur botanist. He was the Professo...
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Late 19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Between Photography Art Print Limited Edition
Located in Slovak Republic, SK
Limited edition of 15, art print. Signed by the author. Picture taken in public transportation.
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Still-life Prints

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Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment

Original Contemporary Etching, Roses, Flowers
Located in AIX-EN-PROVENCE, FR
Work : Original Etching, Gravure, Edition of 9. Handmade artwork. Ready to Hang. Medium : Etching and Aquatint Artist : Deniz Bayav Subject : Sen Karanfile Eğilimlisin (Title) Sign...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Archival Paper, Etching, Aquatint

Sans titre, Derrière le miroir
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 15 x 22 inches, with centerfold, as issued. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Derrière le miroir, N° 141...
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1960s Modern Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Tennis, Olympic Games Beijing 2008 - Lithograph by Fabio Mauri
Located in Roma, IT
Tennis, Olympic Games Beijing 2008 is a wonderful colored screen print realized by Fabio Mauri in occasion of the Olympic Games held in Beijing in 2008.  This artwork is a part of t...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

"Carrier Pigeon" Signed Limited Edition Black and White Silkscreen Print
Located in East Quogue, NY
“Carrier Pigeon,” 2012, Limited edition silkscreen print by Baltimore street artist Gaia. Three-color hand-pulled silkscreen on Coventry Rag, 100% Cotton Archival Paper. Edition 25/...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Archival Paper, Black and White, Archival Pigment

Full Window
Located in Slovak Republic, SK
These days are also bringing "full windows", happily full with books. Done during a city walk. Hope you like the look, limited edition of 15. Signed by the author.
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment

DARTH VADER 30x40 First 12 Release , Star Wars, Photography Pop Art, 70's Toys
Located in Los Angeles, CA
DARTH VADER from the original Kenner release of the Star Wars toys in May of 1977 This is pre release is the first release in the much anticipated series "The Toys" "They encapsulat...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Still-life Prints

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Archival Pigment

Moonlight Magnolia III (24 x 18 inch hand-printed cyanotype)
Located in Oakland, CA
This is a hand-printed photograph using the 170-year-old cyanotype process. This is a negative (reversal of the dark and light tones) of the original photograph of a branch of a magn...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram

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

JEWISH SYMBOLS Signed Lithograph, Modern Jewish Art, Menorah, Star, Roosters
Located in Union City, NJ
JEWISH SYMBOLS is an original hand drawn, limited edition lithograph by Marius Sznajderman (Born-Paris, France 1926-2018) printed in colors on white archival printmaking paper, 100% acid-free, using traditional hand lithography printmaking methods. JEWISH SYMBOLS is an expressive modern abstract color still life composition depicting symbols from the Jewish faith including a menorah, roosters, Magen David(star), Aron Kodesh...
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1980s Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Plate LXXVIII Pears (Valley, Petit Russelet, Doyenne, or Saint Michael, ...
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Plate LXXVIII Pears (Valley, Petit Russelet, Doyenne, or Saint Michael, and the Russselet de Rheims, or Gross Russelet varities). Aquatint, engraving with some st...
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Early 1800s English School Still-life Prints

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Aquatint

Leaf
Located in New Orleans, LA
This image is #17 of an edition of 35 Born in Charleroi, Belgium, Ravaux is an artist who mirrors her surroundings in the mezzotints she creates. She has portrayed see more . . . th...
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1990s Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Mezzotint

Leaf
Leaf
$78 Sale Price
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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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