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Still-life Prints For Sale
Style: Contemporary
Style: Pop Art
Bananas
Located in Milano, IT
BANANAS
2023
From “Golden sexy fruits” project
CM 86x120x2,8
Print run 1/6+2PA
Digital Photography C-Type Lambda print on Fujichrome Photo paper, plexiglass on alluminium compo dbo...
Category
2010s Pop Art Still-life Prints
Materials
Digital, Digital Pigment
Purple Tulips 1
By Alex Katz
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
CocaXploid
Located in Milano, IT
CocaXploid
2019
From “Coca-Cola Series” project
CM 90x120x2,8
Print run 6+2PA
Digital Photography Fine Art Print on Canson Infinity Platine Photo Rag , Epson UltraChrome K3 ink, ple...
Category
2010s Pop Art Still-life Prints
Materials
Plexiglass, Digital, Digital Pigment
Three Deer, Pop Art Screenprint by Hunt Slonem
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Hunt Slonem, American (1951 - )
Title: Three Deer
Year: 1980
Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: AP 30
Image Size: 24 x 32 inches
Size: 26 in. ...
Category
1980s Pop Art Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
Flowers
Located in Hollywood, FL
Artist: Bill Sullivan
Title: Flowers
Medium: Serigraph
Signed: Hand Signed
Edition: Edition of 200
Measurements: 22" x 30"
Condition: Excellent. This piece has been stored in a ...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
WarholianCoke
Located in Milano, IT
WARHOLIANCOKE
2019
From “Coca-Cola Series” project
CM 90x120x2,8
Print run 2/6+2PA
Digital Photography Fine Art Print on Canson Infinity Platine Photo Rag , Epson UltraChrome K3 in...
Category
2010s Pop Art Still-life Prints
Materials
Plexiglass, Digital, Digital Pigment
Homage to Kenneth Koch with Hearts, Bread Sky - Pop Art print showing food, love
By Jim Dine
Located in New York, NY
Jim Dine
Kenneth Koch Homage (Oh Scarf of Paradise, Blue Sky is Bread to the Scarf), 1966
Color lithograph on blue grey wove paper with deckled edges
37 × 24 1/2 inches
Pencil signed...
Category
1960s Pop Art Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Pencil
Amsterdam VIII ed 28/50 - museum glass framed black-white aquatint etch print
Located in Doetinchem, NL
Amsterdam VIII is an intriguing early career aquatint dry-needle etch print by renowned French-Dutch artist Olivier Julia. It depicts a detail of an old Amsterdam house facade is bot...
Category
1980s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Rag Paper, Etching, Aquatint
Amsterdam VI ed 28/50- museum glass framed black-white aquatint etch print
Located in Doetinchem, NL
Amsterdam VI is an intriguing early career aquatint dry-needle etch print by renowned French-Dutch artist Olivier Julia. It depicts a detail of an old Amsterdam house facade is both ...
Category
1980s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Rag Paper, Etching, Aquatint
Wildflowers - Screen Print by Franco Bocchi - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Wildflowers is a modern artwork realized by Franco Bocchi in 1980s.
Mixed colored screen print.
Hand signed on the lower margin.
Numbered on the lower left margin, ex. 128/200.
...
Category
1980s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
Red Square I, II
By William Gatewood
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: William Gatewood (1943- 1994)
Title: Red Square I, II
Date: 1992
Medium: Diptych Screenprint
Size: Each Sheet 36 x 36 inches. 36 x 72 inches ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Gold Leaf
“Still Life with Answering Machine” Vintage Tech Photograph for Bird Watchers
Located in Brooklyn, NY
“Still Life with Answering Machine” appeared in Audubon Magazine, Winter 2021 issue. This bird watching still life continues the exploration of vintage tech...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
Floral Bouquet, Silkscreen by Nadine Prado
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)
Category
1970s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
Flora Italiana ( Papavero Bianco) - 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 ( Papavero Bianco )
delicate white poppy flower petals
40 x 30 inches (102 x 76cm)
signed edition of 25
64 x 48 inches (162 x 122cm)
signed edition of 7
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...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Giclée
Amsterdam V ed 27/50 - museum glass framed black-white aquatint etch print
Located in Doetinchem, NL
Amsterdam V is an intriguing early career aquatint dry-needle etch print by renowned French-Dutch artist Olivier Julia. It depicts a detail of an old Amsterdam house facade is both a...
Category
1980s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Rag Paper, Etching, Aquatint
Flora Italiana ( Iris Bianco ) - 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 botanical splendor and vibrant color palette of nature with highly detailed captures
Flora Italiana ( Iris Bianco )
delicate flower petals of the white iris
40 x 32 inches (102 x 81cm)
signed edition of 25
60 x 48 inches (152 x 122cm)
signed edition of 7
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...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Giclée, Archival Pigment
Campbell's Soup II, Cheddar Cheese (F&S II.63), Andy Warhol
By Andy Warhol
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Andy Warhol (1928-1987)
Title: Campbell's Soup II, Cheddar Cheese (F&S II.63)
Year: 1969
Edition: 250, plus 26 proofs
Medium: Silkscreen on wove paper
Size: 35 x 23 inches
Co...
Category
1960s Pop Art Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
Amsterdam IX ed 28/50 - museum glass framed black-white aquatint etch print
Located in Doetinchem, NL
Amsterdam IX is an intriguing early career aquatint dry-needle etch print by renowned French-Dutch artist Olivier Julia. It depicts a detail of an old Amsterdam house facade is both ...
Category
1980s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Rag Paper, Etching, Aquatint
Red Dogwood 1 from Flowers portfolio
By Alex Katz
Located in Calabasas, CA
Artist: Alex Katz
Title: Red Dogwood 1 from Flowers portfolio
Year: 2021
Medium: Archival pigment ink on Innova Etching Cotton Rag 315 gsm fine art paper
Edition: 100; signed and nu...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
Amsterdam III ed 28/50 - museum glass framed black-white aquatint etch print
Located in Doetinchem, NL
Amsterdam III is an intriguing early career aquatint dry-needle etch print by renowned French-Dutch artist Olivier Julia. It depicts a detail of an old Amsterdam house facade is both...
Category
1980s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Rag Paper, Etching, Aquatint
Height of Summer, by Gunnar Norrman
By Gunnar Norrman
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Medium: Drypoint
Image Size: 8.5 x 6.5 inches
Edition 15
Year: 1990
John Russell wrote in a review in the New York Times that "several of Norrman’s images could hang with drawings b...
Category
1980s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Drypoint
"Sit and LIsten", abstract, turntable, cassette, tape, modern, chair, monoprint
Located in Natick, MA
Deconstructed and cropped images of a turntable, a cassette tape, and a mid century modern chair are represented on 12 x 12 inch Red River photo paper in v...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Paper, Color, Digital
Irs
Located in Hollywood, FL
Artist: Lowell Nesbitt
Title: Iris
Medium: Screenprint
Signed: Hand Signed
Edition: From the edition of 175
Year: 1978
Measurements: 24" x 31"
Note: This piece is sold unframed...
Category
1970s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
Globe Flower
By Jack Brusca
Located in Hollywood, FL
Artist: Jack Brusca
Title: Globe Flower
Medium: Silkscreen
Signed: Hand Signed
Year: 1978
Edition: Edition of 200
Measurements: 26.5" x 25.5"
Frame...
Category
1970s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
Mezzotint Etching Botanical Print 'Mantle' Signed AP Jungle Image
By Richard Hricko
Located in Surfside, FL
Richard Hricko has exhibited internationally in museums, galleries and juried competitions, including the National Academy Museum in New York, Glynn Vivian Art Museum in Wales, and G...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Mezzotint, Etching
Purple Tulips 2
By Alex Katz
Located in Calabasas, CA
Artist: Alex Katz
Title: Purple Tulips 2
Year: 2021
Medium: Archival pigment ink on Innova Etching Cotton Rag 315 gsm fine art paper
Edition: 100; signed...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
Unknown Flower
Located in New York, NY
Love / Bouquet / Flowers / Couple
Artist Statement
Rachel Burgess makes autobiographical works on paper of landscapes and domestic scenes. Window-like in scale, her pieces combine...
Category
2010s Pop Art Still-life Prints
Materials
Monotype
Day Lilies (Hand Signed and Inscribed by Alex Katz)
By Alex Katz
Located in New York, NY
Alex Katz
Day Lilies (Hand Signed and Inscribed by Alex Katz), 1992
Silkscreen on wove paper
Boldly signed, inscribed and dated on the lower, right front in black marker by Alex Katz...
Category
1990s Pop Art Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen, Pencil, Graphite
Kate Boxer, I Won't Eat You, Limited edition animal print, contemporary art
Located in Deddington, GB
I Won’t Eat You [2021]
limited_edition
Drypoint print
Edition number of 30
Image size: H:81 cm x W:113 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:92 cm x W:122 cm x D:0.1cm
Sold Unframed
...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching, Paper
Lilies I
Located in New York, NY
Artist Statement
Rachel Burgess makes autobiographical works on paper of landscapes and domestic scenes. Window-like in scale, her pieces combine elements of oil painting, folk art ...
Category
2010s Pop Art Still-life Prints
Materials
Monotype
Amsterdam II ed 28/50- museum glass framed black-white aquatint etch print
Located in Doetinchem, NL
Amsterdam II is an intriguing early career aquatint dry-needle etch print by renowned French-Dutch artist Olivier Julia. It depicts a detail of an old Amsterdam house facade is both ...
Category
1980s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Rag Paper, Etching, Aquatint
Rose
Located in Hollywood, FL
Artist: Lowell Nesbitt
Title: Rose
Medium: Screenprint
Signed: Hand Signed
Edition: From the edition of 175
Year: 1978
Measurements: 24" x 31"
Note: This piece is sold UNFRAMED...
Category
1970s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
Red Dogwood 2
By Alex Katz
Located in Calabasas, CA
Artist: Alex Katz
Title: Red Dogwood 2
Year: 2021
Medium: Archival pigment ink on Innova Etching Cotton Rag 315 gsm fine art paper
Edition: 100; signed and numbered in pencil
Sheet...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
Yellow Poppies Sept 12, 2013
Located in Fairfield, CT
Yellow Poppies is a natural companion for Red Poppies, March 21, 2012 and is equally strong installed solo. The multi-layered cropped poppies bleed to the...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
Before the Mirror, from Mirror of the Mind
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Roy Lichtenstein Before the Mirror, from Mirror of the Mind, 1975 poignantly encapsulates the artists ability to engage with referential pop-culture symbols while interweaving art hi...
Category
1970s Pop Art Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Screen
Goldenrod
By Alex Katz
Located in Calabasas, CA
Artist: Alex Katz
Title: Goldenrod
Year: 2021
Medium: Archival pigment ink on Innova Etching Cotton Rag 315 gsm fine art paper
Edition: 100; signed and numbered in pencil
Sheet: 35...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
Poppies Coral
Located in Miami, FL
Born in 1951 in Asheville, North Carolina, Donald Sultan rose to prominence in the 1980's as a painter and draftsman of subjects such as lemons and flowers. The work of Donald Sultan...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Silk
Daisies III (Dark Daisies)
Located in New York, NY
Artist Statement
Rachel Burgess makes autobiographical works on paper of landscapes and domestic scenes. Window-like in scale, her pieces combine elements of oil painting, folk art and commercial illustration, exploring our attempts to impose narratives on our lives. Attracted by the accessible, democratic nature of printmaking, she works primarily in monotype, straddling the divide between popular and elite forms of storytelling.
“Deli Flowers My Husband Bought Me” is based on flowers that Burgess’ husband, an NYPD detective, has brought home over the years from their local corner deli. Through iconic renderings of these simple gifts, Burgess pays tribute to the things we take for granted – to the city, to its essential workers...
Category
2010s Pop Art Still-life Prints
Materials
Monotype
Daisies IX (Red Daisies)
Located in New York, NY
Artist Statement
Rachel Burgess makes autobiographical works on paper of landscapes and domestic scenes. Window-like in scale, her pieces combine elements of oil painting, folk art ...
Category
2010s Pop Art Still-life Prints
Materials
Monotype
Bud Vase II
Located in New York, NY
Install images by Em Joseph
Artist Statement
Rachel Burgess makes autobiographical works on paper of landscapes and domestic scenes. Window-like in scale, her pieces combine elemen...
Category
2010s Pop Art Still-life Prints
Materials
Paper, Monotype
Houseball with Fallen Toy Bear
Located in New York, NY
Claes Oldenburg
Houseball with Fallen Toy Bear, 2013
Color lithograph on Japanese watercolor paper
Hand signed and numbered 21/50 by Claes Oldenburg on the ...
Category
2010s Pop Art Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Yellow Flowers
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Sultan’s artworks are rich in color and texture. He is known for his iconic, abstract poppy flowers. The poppies are large in scale and overlay a minimal background, often made from ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Mixed Media, Screen
Peonies
By Alex Katz
Located in Calabasas, CA
Artist: Alex Katz
Title: Peonies
Year: 2021
Medium: Archival pigment ink on Innova Etching Cotton Rag 315 gsm fine art paper
Edition: 100; signed and numbered in pencil
Sheet: 47 ×...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
Flowers - Offset and lithograph after Josip Generalic - 1971
Located in Roma, IT
Flowers is a vintage offset and lithograph artwork on paper realized after Josip Generalic in 1971.
Good conditions.
Signed on the plate and dated o...
Category
1970s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Toxicology
By Kiki Smith
Located in New York, NY
Kiki Smith
Toxicology, 2009
Linotype and engraving in black, gray, and yellow on white wove paper. Printed from a magnesium engraving on Vandercook cylinder presses.
Hand signed by ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Etching, Linocut
DO YOU REMEMBER ME
Located in Aventura, FL
Serigraph on paper. Hand signed, titled and numbered by the artist. From the edition of 465.
Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity included. All reasonab...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Paper, Screen
“Still Life with Spy Camera” Contemporary Still-life Photo with Art Deco Clock
Located in Brooklyn, NY
“Still Life with Spy Camera” continues my exploration of vintage tech begun in my "Tech Vanitas" series. Surrounded by rich silks and patterned wallpapers, playful still lifes of familiar gadgets suggest 17th Century Dutch paintings. My photographs display a fascination with dated merchandise, industrial design, and scientific ingenuity. The devices in this photograph include a rotary dial phone...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
Cristobal Toral Spanish Artist Original Hand Signed lithograph
Located in Miami, FL
Cristobal Toral (Spain, 1940)
'Bodegón', N/A
lithograph on paper
21.3 x 17.8 in. (54 x 45 cm.)
Edition of 225
ID: TOR1167-001-225
Hand-signed by author
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Paper, Screen, Lithograph
R.B. Kitaj Screenprint Collage Hand Signed British Pop Art Film Still Camel
Located in Surfside, FL
The Most Important Film Ever Made, 1972
Color screen print and collage, from the edition of 70.
15 x 17 in
38.1 x 43.2 cm
Published by the artist with Marlborough Graphics at the Kelpra studio in 1972. This work is also in the collections of TATE London and the Victoria & Albert Museum. the price reflects the fact that there is no backing page.
Stylistically, these are hybrid works, influenced by Pop art and the modernist tradition of the Readymade, a work of art created when a mundane found object is named as an artwork and set in an art context. This avant-garde concept was originally invented by the Dada master Marcel Duchamp early in the twentieth century. In the 1960s it received renewed attention at a time when artistic norms were again being questioned. Reacting to Andy Warhol’s Pop imagery, Kitaj poignantly called his repurposed lithograph and silkscreen book covers “his soup can, his Liz Taylor.” The blatant use of images taken directly from commercial sources situates In Our Time as a precursor of appropriation art. In turning book covers into works of art, Kitaj is offering fragments of a history of knowledge, in which the content of each volume is at once mysterious and absent. Coming from this passionate bibliophile, the series is nothing less than an intellectual self-portrait.
R.B. Kitaj, in full Ronald Brooks Kitaj . Ron Kitaj...
Category
1960s Pop Art Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
"Drift 07" Photography 30" x 20" Edition of 10 by Rowan Daly
By Rowan Daly
Located in Culver City, CA
"Drift 07" Photography 30" x 20" Edition of 10 by Rowan Daly
Digital print on Ultra Smooth Fine Art Paper
Unframed - ships rolled in a tube
DRIFT
Behind the scenes of the natio...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Digital, Archival Pigment
Point Given - High Heel Still Life
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This stunning work presents a captivating still life composition featuring a single high heel shoe crafted from reflective silver leather, accentuated by a striking red sole. The sho...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Still-life Prints
Materials
Plexiglass, Pigment
Shoes Yayoi Kusama, Japanese Abstract Art Print, Limited Edition Signed
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Bristol, GB
Screen print
Edition of 100
53.5 x 61 cm (21.1 x 24 in)
Signed, numbered, dated and titled on the front
Condition upon request
Published by ABE Publishing
Our mission is to con...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
Untitled (Sunflower), Chuck Close, Pigment print, Limited editions
By Chuck Close
Located in Zug, CH
Chuck Close
Untitled (Sunflower), 2011
Pigment Print
Edition of 60
52 x 39 cm (20.4 x 15.3 in)
Signed, numbered and dated in pencil on the front
Accompanied by Certificate of Authen...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Pigment
Diamond Ring 1977 Signed Limited Edition Screen Print
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
Richard Bernstein
Diamond Ring - 1977
Print - Silkscreen on Heavy Paper
Paper : 30'' x 26'' inches
image size : 28" x 23 ½" inches
Edition: Signed in pencil, titled, dated and marked...
Category
1970s Pop Art Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
Still Life - Etching by Leo Guida - 1976
By Leo Guida
Located in Roma, IT
Still Life is an artwork realized in 1976 by the Italian Contemporary artist Leo Guida (1992 - 2017).
Original screen print on cardboard
Hand-signed on the lower right in pencil ...
Category
1970s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Etching
Amsterdam I ed 28/50 - museum glass framed black-white aquatint etch print
Located in Doetinchem, NL
Amsterdam I is an intriguing early career aquatint dry-needle etch print by renowned French-Dutch artist Olivier Julia. It depicts a detail of an old Amsterdam house facade is both a...
Category
1980s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Rag Paper, Etching, Aquatint
Symphony of Form: Resplendent Blooms in Modernist Reverie
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This work emerges as a testament to the enduring beauty that blossoms amidst challenging times. Lush roses, tulips, and peonies grace the canvas, symbolizing resilience and hope. Wit...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Plexiglass, Digital Pigment
"Marilyn's Flowers II" Lithograph by Peter Max
By Peter Max
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Peter Max, German/American (1937 - )
Title: Marilyn's Flowers II
Year: 1981
Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 165
Image Size: 19 x 23.5 inches
Category
1980s Pop Art Still-life Prints
Materials
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.