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Still-life Prints For Sale
fern-butterfly effect f-1
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Medium: intaglio
Year: 2015
Signed Artist Proof from the edition of 25
Image Size: 7.5 x 6 inches
Paper Size: 15 x 11 inches
Signed and numbered by the artist.
Seiko Tachibana's...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Still-life Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Andrea Bonfils - Submerged Garden 8467, Photography 2018, Printed After
Located in Greenwich, CT
Series: Submerged Garden
C Print
Limited Edition of 12
Available Sizes:
24" x 36"
30" x 45"
36" x 54"
40" x 60"
48" x 78"
This photograph will be printed once payment has been re...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Digital, Archival Pigment, ...
Safety Pin from George Nama's suite " Tight Rope " 1974
By George Nama
Located in Paonia, CO
Safety Pin by American artist George Nama is from ” Tightrope ” a suite of ten lino-cuts published by Monument Press 1974. We see a stark image of a large safety pin with a wire binding it’s movement which changes the viewers concept of what they think they are perceiving. In this series of ten lino-cuts Nama takes ordinary household objects and makes them inoperable by wrapping a wire around the workable part of the object and presenting one object at a time. There seems to be a sense of humor and at the same time profundity with each image. All copies are individually signed and numbered by the artist. This is copy number 5/50 and is touched by hand with watercolor on Arches cover stock paper and printed by Monument Press in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. This print is in excellent condition with the first two letters of the title having been smudged by the artist when he hand wrote it in pencil on the lower left side of the print.
George Allen Nama was born in Homestead near Pittsbugh, Pennsylvania in 1939. In the 1960’s he was part of an international artistic circle in Paris while working at the Atelier 17 with William Stanley Hayter...
Category
1970s American Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Linocut
Braque, Le nid dans le feuillage, Derrière le miroir (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition, with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 144-145-146, 1964. Publishe...
Category
1960s Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
A 19th Century Curtis Hand-colored Engraving of a Flowering Clerodendrum Plant
Located in Alamo, CA
This early 19th century hand-colored double fold-out botanical engraving is entitled "Clerodendrum Macrophyllum" (Broad-Leaved Clerodendrum), plate 2356, published in London in 1824 ...
Category
1820s Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving
"1967 Volkswagen Samba/Kombi Bus" By Shan Fannin, Limited Edition Giclée Print
By Shan Fannin
Located in Denver, CO
Shan Fannin's (US based) "1967 Volkswagen Samba/Kombi Bus" is an limited edition giclée print that depicts a front view of a blue and white Volkswagen bus...
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Prints
Materials
Giclée
Japanese beauty , 50x50cm, print on canvas.Edition 20 pcs.
Located in Yerevan, AM
Japanese beauty , 50x50cm, print on canvas
Edition 20 pcs.
Category
2010s Pop Art Still-life Prints
Materials
Canvas, Color
Zinnea violacea coccinea, 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.
Category
Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving
June Wild Grass (hand-printed botanical cyanotype, 18 x 36 inches)
Located in Oakland, CA
This long narrow monotype was made by carefully arranging hundreds of individual blades of fresh-cut native Californian wild grass. The species of tall marsh grass is called Gray Rus...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
Garden Moments II
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Ellen Gunn (1951- )
Title: Garden Moments II
Medium: Screenprint
Image size: 22 x 26.75 inches
Sheet size: 22 x 26.75 inches
Signature: lower right
Edition: 375 This one: 35...
Category
1990s Impressionist Still-life Prints
Materials
Paper, Screen
Matisse, Série N Gc'S, var. 5 (Duthuit 9), Dessins, Thèmes et variations (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin pur fil paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Henri Matisse, Dessins, Thèmes et Variations, 19...
Category
1940s Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Matisse, Série N Gc'S, var. 6 (Duthuit 9), Dessins, Thèmes et variations (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin pur fil paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Henri Matisse, Dessins, Thèmes et Variations, 19...
Category
1940s Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Rose, from Recent Etchings II
Located in San Francisco, CA
Framed: 39 3/8 x 30 1/8 x 1 1/2 inches, 3/4 inch face, Wood frame
Wayne Thiebaud was born Mesa, Arizona in 1920, and his family soon moved to Los Angeles in 1921. In high school he ...
Category
1970s Still-life Prints
Materials
Etching
Magritte, La Traversée Difficile (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph in Colours on Vélin d'Arches paper. Edition: 350, plus proofs. Signed in the plate by the artist; hand signed in pencil by the printer, Fernand Mourlot. Good Condition; ne...
Category
1960s Surrealist Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Jane Goldman Contemporary Floral Luminous Color Etching Flowers Chinese Geishas
Located in Surfside, FL
Hand signed and dated intaglio etching in color. 1982
Corner Reflections #2
Jane E. Goldman was born in Dallas, Texas in 1951 and received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Smith College and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Wisconsin. She is known for her high color floral and nature design painting, printmaking and teaching. Goldman's media include watercolor, oil painting, silkscreen, intaglio print, lithograph, relief, screenprint,. aquatint etching and terrazzo. "Lyrical realism," based on a combination of free association and direct observation, best describes her style. Goldman’s luminous prints reveals the artist’s muse in a graphically novel way. Her work pays homage to 19th-century naturalist and artist John James Audubon. Goldman’s sun-dappled still life compositions, sprays of cut flowers in glass vases and lush flora growing in natural environments frame each setting and cast shadows across opened books that display images from Audubon’s Birds of America. Jane Goldman...
Category
1980s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Color, Etching
Matisse, Série H, var. 5 (Duthuit 9), Dessins, Thèmes et variations (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin pur fil paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Henri Matisse, Dessins, Thèmes et Variations, 19...
Category
1940s Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Matisse, Série H, var. 4 (Duthuit 9), Dessins, Thèmes et variations (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin pur fil paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Henri Matisse, Dessins, Thèmes et Variations, 19...
Category
1940s Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Flowers, Pop Art Screenprint by Knox Martin
By Knox Martin
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist:Knox Martin, American (1923 - )
Title: Flowers 8
Year: 1981
Medium: Silkscreen on Heavy Hand-Made Paper, signed in pencil
Paper Size: 42 x 30 inches
Printed by American Atelier...
Category
1980s American Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
40x60 Tupac Shakur 2pac "All Eyez On Me" Cassette Photography Pop Art by Destro
By Destro
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A contemporary photograph of 2Pacs iconic "All eyez on me" cassette tape.
This is s the first release in the much anticipated series "The Music" by pop Artists Destro
These iconic ta...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
Lily-leaved Ophrys. Henry Andrews antique botanical flower engraving print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Ophrys lilifolia - Lily-leaved Ophrys'
Original copper-line engraving with original hand-colouring from Henry Andrews' 'The Botanist's Repository', 1797-1812. Accompanied by the o...
Category
Early 19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving
40x60 "Star Wars" VHS Photo Photography Pop Art by Destro
By Destro
Located in Los Angeles, CA
"The VHS" by pop Artist Destro.
We all remember those iconic nights at the video store.
Pop artist DESTRO once again encapsulates one of our favorite past times in a fine art con...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
30x50 NOTORIOUS B.I.G. "LIFE AFTER DEATH" Cassette Photography Pop Art Unsigned
By Destro
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A contemporary photograph of a NOTORIOUS B.I.G. "LIFE AFTER DEATH" cassette tape.
This is s the first release in the much anticipated series "The Music" by pop Artists Destro
These ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
Apocynum androsamifolium - French botanical flower engraving by Bessa, c1830
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Apocynum androsamifolium' (Fly-trap dogbane or spreading dogbane)
Original copper-line engraving with original hand-colouring.
From 'Herbier general de l'amateur' by Jean Louis A...
Category
Early 19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving
Tal-Coat, Composition, Derrière le miroir (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition, with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 120, 1960. Published by Aim...
Category
1960s Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
PRAYER Signed Lithograph on Somerset paper
By Moshe Castel
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
Moshe Castel
PRAYER - 1979
Print - Lithograph on Somerset paper 21.5'' x 28.25''
Edition: Signed in pencil and marked 98/150
Unframed In Excellent Condition
Moshe Castel (1909-1992...
Category
1980s Abstract Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Ruby, Richard Bernstein
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Richard Bernstein (1939-2002)
Title: Ruby
Year: 1978
Medium: Silkscreen on Vellum paper
Edition: 120/200, plus proofs
Size: 20 x 30.5 inches
Condition: Good
Inscription: Sign...
Category
1970s Pop Art Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
Matisse, Série H, var. 8 (Duthuit 9), Dessins, Thèmes et variations (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin pur fil paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Henri Matisse, Dessins, Thèmes et Variations, 19...
Category
1940s Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Petite Fleur Suite II
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Ellen Gunn (1951- )
Title: Petite Fleur Suite II
Medium: Screenprint
Image size: 11 x 14 inches
Sheet size: 18 x 20 inches
Signature: lower right
Edition: 375 This one: 148/...
Category
1990s Impressionist Still-life Prints
Materials
Paper, Screen
Onion Weed (Asphodelus fistulosus), antique botanical lithograph
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Onion Weed (Asphodelus fistulosus, Linne)'
Colour lithograph, 1909.
Category
Early 20th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Arp, Composition, Derrière le miroir (after)
By Jean Arp
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition, with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 20-21, published by Aimé Ma...
Category
1940s Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Braque, Composition, Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin du Marais paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, The Intimate Sketchbooks of G. Braque, Verve: Revue Arti...
Category
1950s Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Euphemia No 2, Allan Forsyth, Limited Edition Butterfly Print, Affordable Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Euphemia No 2 is a limited edition still life study of a butterfly by Allan Forsyth.
Allan Forsyth is available at Wychwood Art online and in our gallery. Allan is an artist who expl...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Still-life Prints
Materials
Archival Ink, Photographic Paper
Regal Chief, Surrealist Still Life Screenprint by Michael Knigin
Located in Long Island City, NY
Regal Chief
Michael Knigin, American (1942–2011)
Date: 1979
Screenprint, signed, numbered, dated, and titled in pencil
Edition of AP
Image Size: 18 x 25.5 inches
Size: 21.5 x 29.5 in...
Category
1990s Pop Art Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
Retro Mode with Crane
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Signed, titled and numbered by the artist. A young woman playing with crane.
While the images have some resemblance to traditional Japanese Ukiyo-e prints, their sense of whimsy, sa...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint, Intaglio
Wild Mugwort (hand-printed botanical cyanotype, 24 x 12 inches)
Located in Oakland, CA
This is the silhouette of wild mugwort (artemisia) or chrysanthemum weed which grows in the woods in northern California. It is a fragrant herb that smells similar to sage.
Though t...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
Impatiens puberula (Soft Pink Balsam) /// Antique Botanical Flowers Plant Print
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Nathaniel Wallich (Danish, 1786-1854)
Title: "Impatiens puberula (Soft Pink Balsam)" (Plate 193)
Portfolio: Plantae Asiaticae Rariores; or, Descriptions and Figures of a Select Number of Unpublished East Indian Plants
Year: 1830-1832
Medium: Original Hand-Colored Lithograph on J. Whatman paper
Limited edition: 254
Printer: Engelmann, Graf, Coindet & Co., London, UK
Publisher: Richard Taylor for Treuttel & Würtz, London, UK
Reference: Nissen BBI No. 2099; Pritzel No. 9957; Stafleu-Cowan No. 16583; Dunthorne No. 326
Sheet size: 21.13" x 14.13"
Condition: Has been professionally stored away for decades. In excellent condition with strong colors
Rare
Notes:
Provenance: private collection - Aspen, CO. Lithography by Maltese artist...
Category
1830s Victorian Still-life Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Lithograph
Champignons, French antique mushroom fungi chromolithograph, 1910
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'71. Lactarius rufus 72. Lactarius volemus 73. Lactarius subdulcis 74. Lactarius camphoratus'
Antique French mushroom / fungi chromolithograph.
From "Atlas des champignons de Franc...
Category
Early 20th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Magritte, Une Porte s'ouvre sur la Nuit Veloutée, from Les Enfants (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph in Colours on Vélin d'Arches paper. Edition: 350, plus proofs. Signed in the plate by the artist; hand signed in pencil by the printer, Fernand Mourlot. Good Condition; ne...
Category
1960s Surrealist Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Champignons, French antique mushroom fungi chromolithograph, 1910
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'171. Coprinus picaceus 172. Coprinus atramentarius'
Antique French mushroom / fungi chromolithograph.
From "Atlas des champignons de France, Suisse et Belgique," an atlas of Frenc...
Category
Early 20th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Obi Wan Kenobi 50x60 Star Wars, Photography Pop Art, Photograph Toys, Movie Art
By Destro
Located in Los Angeles, CA
R2D2 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"
These iconic figures hav...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
Two-coloured-leaved Cineraria. Andrews antique botanical flower engraving print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Cineraria Aurita - Two-coloured-leaved Cineraria'
Native of the Canary Islands.
Original copper-line engraving with original hand-colouring from Henry Andrews' 'The Botanist's Re...
Category
Early 19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving
Vuillard, Bouquet De Fleurs, Douze pastels (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and stencil on vélin paper mounted on backing museum board, as issued. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Vuillard, Douze Pastels P...
Category
1960s Post-Impressionist Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
Purslane-leaved Aizoon. Henry Andrews antique botanical flower engraving print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Aizoon Canariense - Purslane-leaved Aizoon'
Original copper-line engraving with original hand-colouring from Henry Andrews' 'The Botanist's Repository', 1797-1812. Accompanied by ...
Category
Early 19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving
Euphorbia (Spurge) /// Antique Botanical Botany Plants Engraving Buffon Science
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (French, 1707-1788)
Title: "Euphorbia (Spurge)" (Dodecandrie, Trigynie, Plate 411)
Portfolio: Histoire Naturelle
Year: 1749-1789
Medium...
Category
1740s Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Engraving, Laid Paper, Intaglio
Gris, Moulin à Cafe II (Kahnweiler 1969), Au Soleil du Plafond (after)
By Juan Gris
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on Velin d'Arches paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Au Soleil du Plafond, 1955. Published by Éditions de la Re...
Category
1950s Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Toadstool - Woodcut by Maurits Cornelis Escher - 1931
Located in Roma, IT
Woodcut print realized by Escher for the series "Emblemata", and published in 1931.
On Hollande van Gelder paper.
Edition of 300.
Unsigned, as issued. Excellent condition, matted....
Category
1930s Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Tree Bottles for Two People, Blue Tones, Modern Monotype, Vertical Still Life
By Kind of Cyan
Located in Barcelona, ES
"Tree Bottles for Two People" is an exclusive handprinted unique cyanotype made by layering paper cutouts of bottle silhouettes using uv-light and multiple exposures.
This artwork ...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Still-life Prints
Materials
Emulsion, Watercolor, Paper
QUIET ZONE Signed Lithograph, Surreal Mini Landscape, Jingle Bell, Trees
Located in Union City, NJ
QUIET ZONE is a hand drawn limited edition lithograph by the American surrealist artist Fanny Brennan, created using traditional hand lithography techniques printed on archival Arche...
Category
1990s Surrealist Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Zhiyong Jing Silkscreen Print "Light Station"
By Zhiyong Jing
Located in Draper, UT
"Light Station" is a limited edition print by contemporary artist Jing Zhiyong, known for his distinctive style that blends childlike simplicity with deeper, often humorous social co...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
Flower Pot - Lithograph by Paul Butin - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Flower Pot is an artwork realized by Paul Butin (20th century) in the middle of the 20th century.
Lithograph.
Not signed.
Good condition.
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
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...
Category
1970s Abstract Still-life Prints
Materials
Etching
Les Marguerites (Daisies), c. 1950
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Created with a sensitive attention to color and value, this work is one of many floral motifs Braque depicted in his lifetime. Deeply saturated tones of ochre and brown express a subdued mood, while the hints of highlights convey to the viewer a sense of brightness and energy. A cluster of yellow daisies emerge from a simple ochre vase...
Category
1950s Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Aquatint, Etching
Rolex Daytona 50x40 6263 Paul Newman Photomosaic Photography Fine Art
By Destro
Located in Los Angeles, CA
"Newman" is an acrylic photomosaic artwork by Destro. The first release in a series mosaic works called "Icons". Destro has created large prints which are made up of many hundreds o...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
Intérieur a la Table noire, Une Aventure méthodique, Georges Braque
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d'Arches paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered. Good condition, with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Une Aventure méthodique, 1950; published ...
Category
1950s Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Tatting
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Tatting" is an original artwork made from intaglio on Somerset paper by Katie VanVliet. This piece is shipped in the pictured white frame and measures 12"h x 13"w ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Paper, Color, Intaglio
Mimosas, October 2, 2006
Located in Fairfield, CT
Donald Sultan (b. 1951) is an important painter, sculptor, and printmaker, who rose to prominence in the late 1970s as part of the “New Image” movement. He’s known for his monumental...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
Pepper Pot from Campbell's Soup
By Andy Warhol
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...
Category
1960s Pop Art Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
Hand-colored 1834 Joseph Paxton Botanical Engraving of Yellow Trumpet Flowers
By Joseph Paxton
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a hand-colored engraving of yellow trumpet flowers from Sir Joseph Paxton's (1803-1865) "Magazine of Botany and Register of Flowering Plants", published in 1834. This engravi...
Category
Early 19th Century Academic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving
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.