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Still-life Prints For Sale
Sans titre (Cramer 23), Derrière le miroir
By Joan Miró
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 15 x 11 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné references: Cramer, Patrick, and Joan Miró. Joan Miró, Cata...
Category
1950s Surrealist Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Dawn
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Bristol, GB
Screenprint
Edition 75 of 100
61 × 53.6 cm, 24 x 21.1 in
Signed, numbered, dated and titled on the front
Printer Ishida Ryoichi
Artwork in excellent condition considering its age. Mi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
$46,117
Plane #300
By Thomas Eigel
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THIS PIECE: This series explores the color and composition of our most recognizable form of transportation. A photographer and art director, Thomas Eigel brings an inspired eye...
Category
2010s Still-life Prints
Materials
Photographic Paper
Trees in Provence - Original lithograph handsigned - 100 copies
Located in Paris, IDF
Bernard CATHELIN
Trees in Provence
Original lithograph, 1988
Handsigned in pencil
Inscribed EA (épreuve d'artiste) aside the edition of 100 copies
On Arches paper, size 40 x 31 (c. ...
Category
1980s Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The World
Located in London, GB
David Shrigley
The World, 2021
Screenprint in eight colours with a varnish overlay on Somerset Satin Tub sized 410 gsm paper
hand-signed by the artist and numbered, on the back of th...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
sisterhood , 70x70cm, print on canvas.Edition 20 pcs.
Located in Yerevan, AM
sisterhood , 70x70cm, print on canvas
Edition 20 pcs.
Category
2010s Pop Art Still-life Prints
Materials
Canvas, Color
$225 Sale Price
55% Off
Still Life with Fruits - Lithograph Signed in the Plate (Mourlot)
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Paris, IDF
Raoul DUFY (after)
Still life with fruits
Stone lithograph after a painting (Mourlot workshop)
Signed in the plate
On Arches vellum 50 x 65 cm (c. 20 x 26 in)
Excellent condition
Category
1960s Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Flora Italiana ( Papavero Giallo Fiorito ) - large format botanical still life
Located in San Francisco, CA
Original large format still life photograph from Linda Rosewall's series "Flora Italiana", an intensively beautiful body of works exploring the botanica...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Giclée, Archival Pigment
Flowers, Galerie Sonnabend announcement invitation card addressed with postmark
By Andy Warhol
Located in New York, NY
Andy Warhol (after)
Flowers, Galerie Sonnabend announcement invitation card, 1970
Offset lithograph on smooth card, addressed with postmark
7 1/5 × 7 1/5 inches
Unframed
Instead of observing flowers in nature, Andy Warhol found his botanical inspiration in a 1964 issue of Modern Photography. He transformed a photograph of hibiscus blossoms into a technicolor series of silkscreens, each simply titled Flowers and debuted at the influential Leo Castelli Gallery later that same year. Silkscreens from that exhibition have since sold for over $2 million at auction. While they evoke the Flower Power movement of the 1960s, Warhol’s Flowers have also be interpreted as a symbol of mourning, as the artist created these works just after President John F. Kennedy’s assassination...
Category
1970s Pop Art Still-life Prints
Materials
Offset, Lithograph
Still life , 70x70cm, print on canvas.Edition 20 pcs.
Located in Yerevan, AM
Still life , 70x70cm, print on canvas
Edition 20 pcs.
Category
2010s Pop Art Still-life Prints
Materials
Canvas, Color
$225 Sale Price
55% Off
Blandfordia Flammea, antique botanical Australian flower lithograph print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Blandfordia Flame - Flame-flowered Blandfordia'
Botanical lithograph of an Australian native plant with original hand-colouring , 1854, by Walter Hood Fi...
Category
Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
PINK HOUSE Signed Mini Lithograph, French Country-Style Home, Artist Paintbrush
Located in Union City, NJ
PINK HOUSE 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
Champignons, French antique mushroom chromolithograph, 1910
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'256 Marcella rotunda'
Antique French mushroom / fungi chromolithograph.
From "Atlas des champignons de France, Suisse et Belgique," an atlas of Fren...
Category
Early 20th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving, 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: 7.1 x 6.3 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné reference...
Category
1950s Cubist Still-life Prints
Materials
Woodcut
$1,116 Sale Price
20% Off
Florals Narcissus (Phones) Andalou
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali
TITLE: Florals Narcissus (Phones) Andalou
MEDIUM: Etching
SIGNED: Hand Signed
EDITION NUMBER: 1/350
MEASUREMENTS: 21.75" x 29.5"
YEAR: 1972
FRAMED: No...
Category
1970s Surrealist Still-life Prints
Materials
Etching
Oxyacantha rosea superba, antique botanical pink flower engraving
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Engraving with original hand-colouring. 1834. 230mm by 155mm. From Paxton's 'Magazine of botany and register of flowering plants' by Sir Joseph Paxton.
Category
Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving
50x40" Elvis by Warhol" Photomosaic Pop Fine Art Photography Unsigned Print
By Destro
Located in Los Angeles, CA
"ELVIS BY ANDY WARHOL" is a photomosaic artwork by Destro.
Destro has created large prints which are made up of many hundreds of smaller images.
Archival photographic paper
Framin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
$400 Sale Price
20% Off
Metropolitan Opera Centennial 1883-1983 lithographic poster A Heart at the Opera
By Jim Dine
Located in New York, NY
Jim Dine
Metropolitan Opera Centennial 1883-1983 poster, 1983
Offset lithograph poster; unsigned
46 × 29 inches
Unframed
This limited edition poster was pu...
Category
1980s Pop Art Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Peony, English antique red flower botanical chromolithograph, 1895
By Frederick William Hulme
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Peony'
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 Professor of Freehand and...
Category
Late 19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Amsterdam IX ed 28/50 black-white canal house facade 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 and is b...
Category
1980s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Rag Paper, Etching, Aquatint
Lemon Squash
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Bristol, GB
Screenprint
Edition 26 of 100
61 x 53.5 cm (24 x 21 in)
Signed, numbered, dated and titled on the front
Artwork in excellent condition. Minor imperfections may appear due to the age ...
Category
1980s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
Still Life, Flowers In Vase On Table
By Andre Minaux
Located in Berlin, MD
Andre Minaux (French 1923 - 1986) Nature Morte: A still life of flowers in a vase. The colors are predominantly oranges and greens. This is a lithograph signed in pencil and marked e...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Impressionist Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Light Through Trees
Located in London, GB
Billy Childish
Light through Trees , 2022
Archival print on heavy matt stock
39 x 30.5 cm
Edition of 200
signed and numbered by the artist
Billy Childish is a prolific British artis...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
Brooklyn Heights - Bob Dylan
By Bob Dylan
Located in London, GB
Bob Dylan
Brooklyn Heights, 2016.
Giclée print on Hahnemühle 350gsm Museum etching paper.
Signed and numbered 142/295 in pencil
Published by Washington Green Fine Art in associatio...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Giclée
June Breeze (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
$480 Sale Price
20% Off
Autumn colors Photography Fine Art Print Limited Edition
Located in Slovak Republic, SK
Limited edition of 10, fine art print. Signed by the author.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Still-life Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
$428 Sale Price
75% Off
Magritte, Composition, Poèmes 1923-1958, Dix dessins de René Magritte (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin du Marais paper. Paper Size: 11 x 8.25 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the volume, Poèmes 1923-1958. Dix dessins d...
Category
1950s Surrealist Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Strawberry Tree and Mount Tahoma
Located in London, GB
Billy Childish
Strawberry Tree and mount Tahoma,
30.5 x 38.3 cm, edition of 200, 2022
hand-signed and numbered by the artist
Billy Childish is a prolific British artist, musician, ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
Braque, Les martinets, Derrière le miroir (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 115, 1959. Published by Aimé Maeght, Éditeur, Paris; pr...
Category
1950s Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
40% Off
Adenandra umbellata - French botanical flower engraving by Bessa, c1830
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Adenandra umbellata'
Original copper-line engraving with original hand-colouring.
From 'Herbier general de l'amateur' by Jean Louis Auguste Loiseleur-Deslongchamps & Jean Claude M...
Category
Early 19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving
Dufy, Composition, Eaux-de-vie, Esprit de la fleur et du fruit (after)
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph and stencil on vélin d’Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Published and printed by Bernard Klein, éditeur, Paris, February 26, 1954. Notes: ...
Category
1950s Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
$1,196 Sale Price
20% Off
Sisterhood , 70x70cm, print on canvas.Edition 20 pcs.
Located in Yerevan, AM
Sisterhood , 70x70cm, print on canvas
Edition 20 pcs.
Category
2010s Pop Art Still-life Prints
Materials
Canvas, Color
$225 Sale Price
55% Off
Tansy, English antique yellow flower botanical chromolithograph, 1895
By Frederick William Hulme
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Tansy'
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 Professor of Freehand and...
Category
Late 19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Utopia
By Damien Hirst
Located in Bristol, GB
Inkjet, glaze and foil block on Hahnemuhle photo rag satin paper
Edition 15 of 55
69 x 83 cm (27.2 x 32.7 in)
(87.6 x 102.3 cm / 34.5 x 40.3 in)
Signed and numbered on the front
Cond...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Digital
$22,217
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
Blues and Black August 20, 2020
Located in Calabasas, CA
Artist: Donald Sultan
Title: Blues and Black August 20, 2020
Year: 2020
Medium: Silkscreen with enamel inks, flocking, and tarlike texture on Rising 4-ply Museum Board
Sheet: 44 x 8...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
Vintage Floral Study Etching Titled "Weeds" by Marina Payot
Located in Soquel, CA
Vintage Floral study etching titled "Weeds" by Marina Payot (American, 20th century), 1983. Titled, signed, and dated lower edge. Artists Proof designation. Unframed. Image: 11.75"H ...
Category
1980s American Impressionist Still-life Prints
Materials
Paper, Printer's Ink
$460 Sale Price
20% Off
Snail in a Bowl (Artist Proof inscribed to Fritz Eichenberg)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Leonard Merchant's mezzotint, "Snail in Cup" is inscribed for fellow artist, Fritz Eichenberg.
While a student at the Central School for Arts and Crafts in London, a young Leonard Marchant found an engraving rocker in a cupboard and proceeded to turn himself into a master of the painstaking art of mezzotinting.
Marchant, who has died in Shrewsbury aged 70, grew up in Simonstown, the Royal Navy's enclave in South Africa. Though his first job was as a parliamentary messenger, he taught himself to paint and, aged 19, was given a one-man show in Cape Town. Fired by this success, he left for England to study painting and, he claimed, to escape the stifling home atmosphere created by his Catholic mother and aunts. (His father was killed in the second world war.) Without contacts in London, he phoned Jacob Epstein, whose recommendation resulted in a grant to study briefly at the Central School. It was later, when studying full-time at the Central, that he saw the mezzotints of the Japanese master, Yozo Hamaguchi, in a London gallery. He was hooked.
Creating a mezzotint is tedious in the extreme. The copper plate must first be prepared with a "rocker" which roughens the surface. A plate may be "rocked" 30 or 40 times. The rough texture is then reduced with a burnisher and a scraper, allowing the print a range of tones from velvety black through the greys to white. Marchant's plates could be months in the making. But the technical demands were the least of his worries. In its 18th- and 19th-century heyday, mezzotint was solely a reproductive medium, for copying masters such as Reynolds and Turner. The development of photography rendered it unfashionable, and by the 1960s the technique, known as la manière anglaise, was a bygone medium.
Marchant, by now a teacher in printmaking at the Central, began to create original mezzotints with a colleague, Radavan Kraguly. A perfectionist, he seemed to revel in the straitjacket procedure. Perhaps it was the metaphor of bringing darkness out of light that appealed to this straight-talking, sometimes sombre, man, who would suddenly relax and light up like a gleaming hue on one of his prints. His work was of squares and triangles with the occasional cat, black and ominous, and carefully arranged still lifes, featuring plants, a seed pod, a pot he might have bought at auction to celebrate the sale of a print.
There were one-man shows, notably at the Bankside Gallery. He sold well at the Royal Academy summer exhibition, was a Florence Biennale prizewinner, spent a fellowship year at the British School in Rome, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers.
But making mezzotints was not a paying job. Marchant and his South African wife...
Category
1980s Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
$100 Sale Price
45% Off
Fight For Your Right
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THIS PIECE: Let's not pretend that we don't enjoy 80's music.
ABOUT THIS ARTIST: Floyd P. Stanley is an LA based photographer creating product shot photographs of mixed tapes....
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Photographic Paper
Bob Dylan - Sidewalk Cafe
By Bob Dylan
Located in London, GB
Bob Dylan
Sidewalk Cafe, 2011
Giclee on Hahnemuhle 350gsm Museum etching paper
hand-signed and numbered by the artist
Framed: 85 x 68 cm
Sheet: 70 x 56 cm
Image: 54.5 x 40 cm
Edition...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Giclée
Magnolia 10 - Contemporary Figurative Drypoint Etching Print, Flower, Floral
Located in Warsaw, PL
MARTA WAKUŁA-MAC: Master of Arts in Fine Art Education- Diploma in Fine Art Printmaking at the Institute of Art, Pedagogical University, Krakow, 2003. Member of Graphic Studio Dubl...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Paper, Drypoint, Etching
Elvis Presley Andy Warhol 20x10 Photomosaic Photography Aluminum Metal Pop Art
By Destro
Located in Los Angeles, CA
"Elvis by Warhol " 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 ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
Silent Snow (Poetical imagery and Christmas memories in New England)
By Mary Teichman
Located in New Orleans, LA
This image is from an exclusive edition published by Stone + Press in 1994 in an edition of 100. This impression is #98. It brings to mind the Robert Frost poem, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
Mary Teichman...
Category
1990s American Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Etching
$100 Sale Price
20% Off
Newspapers on the Table - Still Life Etching on Heavy Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Newspapers on the Table - Still Life Etching on Heavy Paper, #20/150
Black and white etching by Darien Payne (American, b. 1951). This piece is a meticulously detailed depiction of ...
Category
1990s Photorealist Still-life Prints
Materials
Archival Paper, Drypoint, Etching
A Pumpkin (T) Yayoi Kusama pumpkin print limited edition red abstract pattern
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Bristol, GB
Screenprint
Printer's proof aside from main edition of 150
45.5 x 38.2 cm (17.9 x 15 in)
Signed, numbered, titled and dated on the front
Excellent condition for its age, with vivid c...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
Euphorbia, German antique botanical plant chromolithograph print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Euphorbiaceen'
(Euphorbia)
German chromolithograph, circa 1895.
240mm by 155mm (sheet)
Category
Late 19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Original 'Banque Nationale de Credit Emprunt National 1920' vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original “Banque Nationale de Credit Emprunt National 1920” vintage Cappiello poster. Linen backed in B condition with touch-up restoration in various poster parts. The price ref...
Category
1920s Art Deco Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Pelargonium, English antique pink flower botanical chromolithograph, 1895
By Frederick William Hulme
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Pelargonium'
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 Professor of Freeha...
Category
Late 19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Four Reds, Sept 30 2002
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
For more than thirty years, Donald Sultan has experimented with and expanded still life painting. He takes familiar objects such as flowers, fruits, playing cards, and factory sites,...
Category
Early 2000s Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
Scarabei in Combattimento - Etching by Luigi Bartolini - 1941
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 23.5 x 27.5 cm.
Scarabei in combattimento (Fighting Beetles) is an original artwork realized by the great Italian poet, artist, and engraver Luigi Bartolini in 19...
Category
1940s Still-life Prints
Materials
Etching
Flower in Vase (Summer)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Flower in Vase (Summer)
Color woodblock, c. 1950
Signed "B. Ohno" lower right (see photo)
Sealed lower right (see photo)
Series: Flowers of the Four Se...
Category
1950s Other Art Style Still-life Prints
Materials
Woodcut
White Orchid
By Marc Quinn
Located in London, GB
Pigment print on 300gsm Somerset Photo paper
Signed by the artist and numbered in pencil, on recto
25.9 x 25.9 cm
Edition 39 of 150
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Photographic Paper, Pigment
$1,144
Faith Ringgold Groovin' High Hand Signed Limited Edition
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This piece, titled "Groovin' High", is a printer's proof created by the renowned artist and civil rights activist Faith Ringgold. The print is signed an...
Category
1990s American Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
$6,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Tulips 2, 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 2
Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933–1993)
Date: ...
Category
1970s Photorealist Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Pair of Hand-colored Romantic French Engravings after Francois Boucher
By (After) Francois Boucher
Located in Alamo, CA
A pair of French classical romantic prints original created in the 18th century by Jacques-Firmin Beauvarlet (1731-1797) after paintings by Francois Boucher (1703-1770), utilizing ...
Category
18th Century Romantic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving, Etching
Magnolia 11 - Contemporary Figurative Drypoint Etching Print, Flower, Floral
Located in Warsaw, PL
MARTA WAKUŁA-MAC: Master of Arts in Fine Art Education- Diploma in Fine Art Printmaking at the Institute of Art, Pedagogical University, Krakow, 2003. Member of Graphic Studio Dubl...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Paper, Etching
Dufy, Composition, Les Peintres mes amis (after)
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Les Peintres mes amis, 1965. Published by Éditions d'art Les Heures Cla...
Category
1960s Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,916 Sale Price
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Flowering Iris & Other Botanicals: Framed 17th C. Besler Hand-colored Engraving
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a hand-colored copper-plate engraving entitled "I. Spatula foetida - II. Caucalis Dodonei - III. Cruciata", depicting three flowering plants, including an Iris, from Basilius Besler's landmark work, Hortus Eystettensis (Garden at Eichstatt), first published in 1613 in Eichstatt, Germany near Nuremberg and later in 1640 and 1713.
This beautiful hand-colored botanical engraving is presented in a gold-colored wood frame with a French mat...
Category
Mid-17th Century Academic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving
Braque, Quatre oiseaux, Derrière le miroir (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 115, 1959. Published by Aimé Maeght, Éditeur, Paris; pr...
Category
1950s Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
40% Off
Unique Modernist Israeli Still Life Monoprint Painting Calman Shemi Vase Flowers
By Calman Shemi
Located in Surfside, FL
Fruit and Flowers monoprint by Calman Shemi
Calman Shemi, sculptor and painter, was born in Argentina in 1939. A graduate of the School of Sculpture and Ceramics in Mendoza, he studied under the Italian-Argentinean sculptor Libero Badii whom he credits with putting him on the right path. “He taught me principals, not only related to sculpture, but human and philosophic principals. Shemi also carefully studied the work of such masters as Pablo Picasso, Caravaggio, Frank Stella and Henri Matisse. “From each one of these great artists I learned something from observing them,” he says.
In 1961, at the age of 20, Shemi immigrated to Israel and joined Kibbutz Carmia of which he was a member for twenty years. There he worked in agriculture and also as a sculptor working with wood and clay. Several of his large-scale fiberglass and polyester sculpture projects are situated in public buildings. He was a student of German-Israeli sculptor Rudi Lehmann, a pioneer of the artistic movement known as “Canaanism.”
Canaanite art was an effort to create a direct relationship with the land, bypassing historic Jewish connotations—hence the land’s primordial name is used. Canaanite works, with an emphasis on the inter-action of simple shapes, bear a deliberate resemblance to the sculpture and ritual art of early civilizations of the Middle East prior to Judaism, always with an eye to the fusion of man and the land itself.
Though sculpture dominated his early years as an artist, in the mid ’70s Shemi developed the idea of the “soft painting” medium. Beginning with a color drawing done to scale, Shemi layers onto the drawing irregularly shaped pieces of variously textured and colored fabrics. Using a threadless 9,000-needle sewing machine, the fabrics are meshed to one another and to the background, resulting in vibrant wool tapestry carpet compositions infused with exuberant color and explosive movement.
Over the years, Shemi has continued to challenge himself with new artistic mediums, developing two more techniques of painting: “Lacquer paintings” and “window paintings.” He also works in monotype, lithograph and silkscreen techniques. He creates his Lacquer Painting by applying vibrant colors to wood or metal panel that has been gilded with gold or silver leaf, and sometimes both. After the oil paint has thoroughly dried, many layers of lacquer are applied to the surface giving it a glowing effect. Between each layer of lacquer the piece is hand-polished to give the surface its very shiny look.
Shemi’s “lacquer” and “window” paintings are reminiscent of ancient techniques used centuries ago in Japan and China.
Shemi concludes, “All of the art that I create is full of optimism and beauty. That’s all. Simple, very simple.”
During the past eighteen years Shemi has held more than seventy one-man shows in the U.S., Japan, Germany, Spain, Belgium and Israel. His works can be seen in many public and private collections around the world. He is of a generation of contemporary Israeli artists, somewhat influenced by pop art that include Alex Pauker...
Category
20th Century Abstract Expressionist Still-life Prints
Materials
Monoprint
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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