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TREMOR Signed Mini Lithograph, Surreal Landscape Multicolor Sewing Thread Spools
Located in Union City, NJ
TREMOR is a hand drawn limited edition lithograph by the American surrealist artist Fanny Brennan, created using traditional hand lithography techniques printed on archival Arches pa...
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1990s Surrealist Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Cymbidium Eburneum, antique orchid botanical lithograph print, 1859
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Cymbidium Eburneum – The Ivory Cymbidium' Orchid lithograph with original hand-colouring , 1859, by Walter Hood Fitch (1817-1892). 25cm by 15.5cm (sheet...
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Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Pineapple with foliage.
Located in London, GB
[MERIAN, Maria Sibyl]. Pineapple with foliage. The Hague, Gosse, 1719. Engraving of a Pineapple with foliage by J. Mulder, P. Sluyter and D. Stoopendaal after Merian, with later hand-colour, from Dissertatio de Generatione et Metamorphasibus Insectorum Surinamensium. Framed and glazed, overall dimensions: 40cm by 53.2cm by 4.5cm. Superb engravings which depict the metamorphoses of South American insects and the exotic plants on which they feed. Maria Sybilla, daughter of the German engraver and publisher Matthias Merian, devoted herself to the study of European insects and their metamorphoses. As a result of the wealth of tropical varieties being brought back by the Dutch West Indies Company...
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1710s Naturalistic Still-life Prints

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Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Engraving

Still-Life 02 - Original Offset after Renato Guttuso - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Still-Life 02 is an offset print realized after the Sicilian artist Renato Guttuso, 1980s. Very good conditions. Renato Guttuso (Bagheria, Palermo 1912 - Rome,1987) was a famous I...
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1980s Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Offset

Malibu Cliffs, Print on Satin Paper, Framed
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Vahe Yeremyan Work: Print on Satin Paper, Edition 056 Subject: Malibu Cliffs, Framed Size: 21" x 17" x 0.8''inch, 53x23x2cm, Ready to Hang, Wooden Frame. Glass, Plastic Wra...
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2010s Impressionist Still-life Prints

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Paper, Satin Paper, Color

Champignons, French antique mushroom chromolithograph, 1910
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'99. Collybia butyracea 100. Collybia fusipes' Antique French mushroom / fungi chromolithograph. From "Atlas des champignons de France, Suisse et Belgique," an atlas of French, Swi...
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Early 20th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints

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Engraving, Lithograph

Autumn, Print on Satin Paper, Framed
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Vahe Yeremyan Work: Print on Satin Paper, Edition 020 Subject: Autumn, Framed Size: 17.5" x 24.5" x 0.8''inch, 44x62x2cm, Ready to Hang, Wooden Frame, Glass. All works ar...
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2010s Impressionist Still-life Prints

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Paper, Satin Paper, Color

Sweet-scented Lachenalia. Henry Andrews antique botanical flower engraving print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Lachenalia Fragrant - Sweet-scented Lachenalia' Original copper-line engraving with original hand-colouring from Henry Andrews' 'The Botanist's Repository', 1797-1812. Accompanied...
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Early 19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints

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Engraving

THORNTON. The Superb Lily.
Located in London, GB
A magnificent print by Robert John Thornton; aquatint and mezzotint, printed in colour and finished by hand, heightened with gum arabic, from The Temple of Flora...
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1790s Naturalistic Still-life Prints

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Mezzotint, Aquatint, Handmade Paper, Engraving

Holiday Pine Cones
Located in New Orleans, LA
This Holiday wreath adorns the door of a Brooklyn Mansion Frederick Mershimer (American, b. 1958) Moody, mysterious, majestic – these are some of the ways to describe the mezzotint...
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1990s American Modern Still-life Prints

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Mezzotint

Izzy with her Ball, Dog Art, Affordable Art, Contemporary Animal Art Print
Located in Deddington, GB
Izzy, a charming characterful terrier stands alert, holding her ball in her mouth. Colour etching hand made and printed by the artist. Helen Fay's art for sale online and in our gall...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Paper, Drypoint, Etching

Columnar-chived Ixia, Henry Andrews antique botanical flower engraving print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Ixia Columnaris - Columnar-chived Ixia' Native of Cape of Good Hope. Original copper-line engraving with original hand-colouring from Henry Andrews' 'The Botanist's Repository', ...
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Early 19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints

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Engraving

Eulophia Virens, antique orchid botanical lithograph print, 1866
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Eulophia Virens – Greenish Eulophia' Orchid lithograph with original hand-colouring , 1866, by Walter Hood Fitch (1817-1892). Native orchid of Sri Lanka a...
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Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Leaf VI, by Ellsworth Kelly, Limited Edition of 20 from Twelve Leaves Series
Located in Hong Kong, HK
Ellsworth Kelly, Leaf VI, Edition 15/20 (1978) Limited Edition of 20 from the Twelve Leaves Series Published by GEMINI G.E.L
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1970s Still-life Prints

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Paper, Lithograph

Back Cover, from Joan Miro by Jacques Prevert and Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Back Cover, from Joan Miro by Jacques Prevert and Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes Artist: Joan Miro Editor: Maeght Year: 1956 Dimensions: 23 x 20 cm Refere...
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1950s Abstract Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Petite Fleur Suite I
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Ellen Gunn (1951- ) Title: Petite Fleur Suite I Medium: Screenprint Image size: 11 x 14 inches Sheet size: 18 x 20 inches Signature: lower right Edition: 375 This one: 103/3...
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1990s Impressionist Still-life Prints

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Paper, Screen

Robert Rauschenberg 'Earth Day' Limited Edition, Signed Lithograph Print
Located in San Rafael, CA
This listing is for the limited edition lithograph, not the mass produced poster. Robert Rauschenberg (American, 1925-2008) Earth Day, 1970 Lithograph with chine collé Signed, dated, numbered by the artist Edition 11/50, Full sheet: 52 1/2 x 37 1/2 in. With mat: approx 55 x 40 in Published by the American Environment Foundation Printed by Gemini G.E.L. Los Angeles, with blindstamp to lower center Catalog Raisonné: RRF 70.E016 Provenance: Butterfield & Butterfield (now Bonhams) Lot 3115, sale 5367L February, 24, 1993 This Robert Rauschenberg lithograph...
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1970s Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Watermelon - Lithograph after Renato Guttuso - 1982
Located in Roma, IT
Watermelon is a mixed colored lithograph by the Sicilian artist Renato Guttuso in 1982 The artwork is from XXeme Siècle Paris/New York; Printer Graphis Arte Livorno/Roma. Referenc...
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1970s Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Flowering Jasmine and Laurel Plants: A Besler Hand-colored Botanical Engraving
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a hand-colored copper-plate engraving entitled "Gelsiminum Catalonicum, Mairana Latifollia, Euphasiaramosa Pratensis Flore Albo, Euphasia Minus Ramosa Flore Excereruleo Purpurascente", depicting flowering Jasmine, Mountain Laurel...
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1710s Academic Still-life Prints

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Engraving

Contemporary Portrait Print on Dibond – "The Girlfriend" from The Dinners Series
Located in FISTERRA, ES
"The Girlfriend" (Edition 8 of 25) is a vertical-format contemporary portrait print from The Dinners, a limited edition series by artist Natasha Lelenco. This UV print on Dibond merg...
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2010s Pop Art Still-life Prints

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Metal

Braque, Compotier, Derrière le miroir (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 48-49, 1952. Published by Aimé Maeght, Éditeur, Paris; ...
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1950s Modern Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Vintage Fauvist Color Lithograph Porch Scene Jamaican Artist Van Pitterson
Located in Surfside, FL
Afternoon Delight Wicker front porch chair and furniture. Framed 19 X 23 image is 13 x 17. Lloyd van Pitterson was born in Jamaica, West Indies. H...
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20th Century Post-Impressionist Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

After Jonas Wood Jungle Kitchen Exhibit Poster Interiors & Landscapes Kordansky
Located in Draper, UT
Stamped on the Verso of the print and in Mint Condition. From the David Kordansky Gallery show in 2017. Very rare poster that has been stored flat since purchase. One of his most ...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Saint-Germain-Des-Pres - Hall - Color Lithograph - Bernard Buffet
Located in Sint-Truiden, BE
These works were printed in November 1967 by Fernand Mourlot, master lithographer in Paris.
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1960s Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Magritte, Composition, Les chants de Maldoror (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
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

"Lily of the Valley" - Botanical Still-Life Lithograph
Located in Soquel, CA
Delicate botanical lithograph of Lily of the Valley (Convallaria majoralis) by Patricia Pearce (American, b. 1948). This piece is unsigned, but was acquired with a collection of othe...
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1990s Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Paper, Ink, Lithograph

Composition - Original Linoleum by Guido La Regina - Late 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Composition is an original contemporary artwork realized by the Italian artist Guido La Regina. Original Linoleum on paper. Hand-signed on the lower ...
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Paper, Linocut

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...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram

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

Abstraction for Lincoln Center, Hand signed dated, inscribed by Thomas Nozkowski
Located in New York, NY
THOMAS NOZKOWSKI Mostly Mozart (Hand signed and inscribed), 2007 Offset Lithograph. Hand signed dated 2016 and inscribed to Kevin 29 × 35 inches Personally signed and dedicated by No...
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Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Still-life Prints

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Offset

Vicky Oldfield, Moments of Reflection, Limited Edition Still Collograph Print
Located in Deddington, GB
Vicky Oldfield Moments of Reflection Limited Edition Hand Coloured Collagraph Print Edition of 30 Sheet Size: H 49cm x W 40cm x D 0.1cm Sold Unframed Please note that insitu images a...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Still-life Prints

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Paper, Color

Panicum sanguinale, from "Flora Londinensis..."
Located in Houston, TX
Antique hand colored engraving of grass or Panicum Sanguinale by W.Curtis, circa 1820. Artwork was intended to be actual size of specimen. Original artwork on paper displayed on a w...
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1820s Still-life Prints

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Engraving, Watercolor, Archival Paper

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...
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Early 19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints

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Engraving

"50x40" FRIDA KAHLO Photomosaic Pop Art Archival Fine Art Photography Signed
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

Garden Flowers & Vase of Flowers (Suite of Two Artworks), Peter Max
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Peter Max (1937) Title: Garden Flowers & Vase of Flowers (Two Artworks) Year: 1979 Edition: 347/350, plus proofs; 143/350, plus proofs Medium: Lithograph on Somerset paper Si...
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1970s Pop Art Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Calder, Composition, Derrière le miroir (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 212, published by Aimé Maeght, Éditeur, Paris; printed ...
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1970s Modern Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Set of Three Engravings from Curtis's "Flora Londinensis" /// Botanical Flowers
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: William Curtis (English, 1746-1799) Titles: "Epilobium Tetragonum (Square Stalked Willow Herb)" (Vol. 2, Plate 131), "Stellaria Holostea (The Greater Stitchwort)" Vol. 2, Pla...
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1770s Old Masters Still-life Prints

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Watercolor, Laid Paper, Engraving, Intaglio

30x40 NOTORIOUS B.I.G. "LIFE AFTER DEATH" Cassette Photography Pop Art Unsigned
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 ...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Still-life Prints

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Archival Pigment

Gladiolus Carneus - Henry Andrews antique botanical pink flower engraving print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Gladiolus Carneus - Flesh-coloured Gladiolus' Native of the Cape of Good Hope, Africa. Original copper-line engraving with original hand-colouring from Henry Andrews' 'The Botani...
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Early 19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints

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Engraving

Vaquero, by Frank Romero
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Signed and numbered from the edition of 60. Image of a cowboy with an oversized hat. Throughout his 40 year career as an artist, Frank Romero has bee...
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1990s Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Paint, Screen, Stencil

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° 114, 1959. Published by Aim...
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1950s Modern Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Champignons, French antique mushroom chromolithograph, 1910
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'217 Hydnum imbricatum 218 Hydnum zonatum' Antique French mushroom / fungi chromolithograph. From "Atlas des champignons de France, Suisse et Belgique," an atlas of French, Swiss, and Belgian fungi, illustrated by chromolithographs from watercolours by the illustrator Aimé Bessin...
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Early 20th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints

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Engraving, Lithograph

Thorns - In Celebration of Pride Month
Located in New Orleans, LA
Stone and Press Gallery is excited to offer several works in celebration of the LGBTQ community. This is impression #12 of 35 impressions Born in Charleroi, Belgium, Ravaux is an ...
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Early 2000s Modern Still-life Prints

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Mezzotint

Flowers Blooming in the Isle of the Dead, Limited Edition Signed Print
Located in San Rafael, CA
Takashi Murakami (b. 1962) Flowers Blooming in the Isle of the Dead, 2022 Offset lithograph in colors on smooth wove paper 28 inches (71.1 cm) diameter (sheet) Ed. 102/300 Signed and...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Offset

Calothamnus Villosa, 19th century Australian native botanical engraving print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Calothamnus Villosa - Villous Calothamnus' Original engraving with original hand-colouring by S Watts After M Hart, 1827. Native plant of Australia. ...
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Early 19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints

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Engraving

Pussy Riot - $20
Located in London, GB
Pussy Riot - $20 Giclée Print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Pearl 21 x 29.7 cm Edition of 150 comes with hand-signed, numbered (1-150), stamped and dated COA. Pu...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Giclée

Bodegon 36, Surreal Still Life Lithograph by Quiroz
Located in Long Island City, NY
Bodegon 36 Juan Manuel Gomez-Quiroz, Chilean (1939) Date: circa 1979 Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition of 300, AP 40 Image Size: 25.5 x 17 inches Size: 29 in. x 20.5 ...
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1970s Surrealist Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Circus - Oil on Canvas by Anastasia Kurakina - 2019
Located in Roma, IT
Circus is an original oil painting on canvas, realized in 2019 by the emerging artist, Anastasia Kurakina. Signed and dated in black ink on the back. This original painting represe...
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2010s Still-life Prints

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Oil

Chrysanthemums
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Chrysanthemums Color woodcut, c. 1950's Signed lower right (see photo) Publisher: Uchida (see photo of red seal) Note: Chrysanthemums, a symbol of the sun, the Japanese consider the ...
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1950s Modern Still-life Prints

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Woodcut

Tool Drypoint: Bottle opener by Jim Dine, black and white tool still life sketch
Located in New York, NY
Jim Dine drew the plate for this image in the same period as his “Thirty Bones of My Body” 1972 portfolio of drypoint tool images. Crisbrook paper (30 x 22 in. / 76.2 x 56 cm.) and p...
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1970s Modern Still-life Prints

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Drypoint

Calder, 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° 113, published by Aimé Maeg...
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1950s Modern Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Chicken 'N Dumplings, from Campbell’s Soup II
Located in London, GB
Screenprint in colours, 1969, on wove paper, signed in ball-point pen and numbered with a rubber stamp, verso, 91 from the edition of 250 (there were also 26 artist's proofs lettered...
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1960s Pop Art Still-life Prints

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Screen

THORNTON. The Roses
Located in London, GB
Magnificent print by Robert John Thornton. Aquatint and mezzotint, printed in colour and finished by hand, heightened with gum arabic, from The Temple of Flora. [London 1799] First state. Thornton was a prolific medical author and Doctor of Medicine, practicing at St Andrews University and licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians. However, he is best remembered for this great botanical publication The Temple of Flora, which formed a part of the larger work - New Illustration of the Sexual system of Linnaeus. In 1797, he also began advertising for subscribers to his planned natural history publishing venture, which eventually comprised of 30 folio botanical plates. For these remarkable illustrations, he engaged the services of the leading artists and engravers of his day: Sir William Beechey, James Opie, Henry Raeburn, John Russell, Philip Reinagle and others as painters; Francesco Bartolozzi, Richard Earlom and John Landseer. Most of the images were painted by Peter Charles Henderson and Philip Reinagle. These botanical illustrations are unique as they were the first flower prints with landscape backgrounds, depicting the natural habitat of the plant. The life-size flowers stand out dramatically and the whole effect is startlingly modern. Thornton's announced intention was to make this work the most magnificent tribute ever paid to the famous Swedish botanist Linnaeus by illustrating his Sexual System with the finest possible prints. All these were engraved on a larger scale than anything which had hitherto appeared and then were printed in colour, an expensive and uncommon method in England at this time. A brilliant effect. This rare and celebrated plate of the Roses...
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1790s Naturalistic Still-life Prints

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Mezzotint, Aquatint, Handmade Paper, Engraving

Tulips 1, Photorealist Lithograph by Lowell Blair Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Lowell Blair Nesbitt was an American painter and printmaker who’s work consists of unique and vivid depictions of flowers. Tulips 1 Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933–1993) Date: ...
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1970s Photorealist Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Magritte, Les Claires-Voies d'un Jeune Regard Embaument la Fête d'un Vie (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Limited Edition 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 Mo...
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1960s Surrealist Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

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

Summer, Color silkscreen on Rives BFK paper Signed/N by famed artist Paula Scher
Located in New York, NY
Paula Scher Summer, ca. 1987 Silkscreen in Colors on Rives BFK Paper. 36 × 29 3/5 inches Edition 81/190 Signed in graphite lower right margin front; numbered 81/190 in graphite lower...
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1980s Pop Art Still-life Prints

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Screen

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

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Photographic Paper

Figurative Cat Portrait on Dibond. Domestic Still Life with Pet, Lim. Ed. 5/25
Located in FISTERRA, ES
"The Cat" (Edition 5 of 25) is a limited-edition UV print on Dibond by Moldovan-born artist Natasha Lelenco, blending figurative animal portraiture with surreal domestic iconography....
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2010s Pop Art Still-life Prints

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Metal

La chaise de jardin, Une Aventure méthodique, Georges Braque
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d'Arches paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Une Aventure méthodique, 1950; published by Fernand Mourlot, Paris, a...
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1950s Modern 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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