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Still-life Prints For Sale
Currants and Blueberries, by Eva Bostrom
By Eva Bostrom
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Signed and numbered lithograph from the edition of 250 .Vibrant image of blueberries.
Eva Boström was Born in 1954 in Stockholm, Sweden. Her paintings and lithographs show a sensual...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Nuthatch, bird art, leaf art, limited edition print, affordable art, nature art
By Kate Heiss
Located in Deddington, GB
Nuthatch by Kate Heiss [2022]
limited_edition
Oil based inks on 300gsm Somerset velvet Paper
Edition number 30
Image size: H:20 cm x W:15 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:30 cm x W:25 cm x D:1cm
Sold Unframed
Please note that insitu images are purely an indication of how a piece may look.
This print linocut print features a nuthatch perched in an oak tree amongst the acorns and autumn Leaves. A linocut print is a relief printing technique where lino is cut, inked and rolled to create an inverse relief print, generating the image as seen.
Kate Heiss is a textile designer and print-maker who has worked with a wide range of fashion brands including Fenchurch, Miss Selfridge...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Ink
Classic Botanical Cyanotype, Handmade Using Natural Sunlight, Limited Edition
By Kind of Cyan
Located in Barcelona, ES
This is an exclusive handprinted limited edition cyanotype.
Details:
+ Title: Vintage Pressed Flowers Nº3
+ Year: 2023
+ Edition Size: 20
+ Stamped and Certificate of Authenticity provided
+ Measurements : 70x100 cm (28x 40 in.), a standard frame size
+ All cyanotype prints are made on high-quality Italian watercolor paper
WHAT IS A CYANOTYPE?
The cyanotype (a.k.a. sun-print) process is one of the oldest in the history of photography, dating back to the 1840's.
Cyanotypes were then made famous by Anna Atkins, considered the first female photographer. Inspired by nature, we feel the need to look back at a craft that is handmade, analogue, and using an all-natural light source: the sun.
Our cyanotypes are made by coating high-quality Italian watercolor paper with a light-sensitive emulsion. We then expose it in direct sunlight for several minutes using a photo negative...
Category
2010s American Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Photographic Film, Other Medium, Photogram, Color, C Print, Photographic...
Boxthorn Japanese, Lyciym japonicum Plate 361
Located in Columbia, MO
Boxthorn Japanese, Lyciym japonicum Plate 361
1797
Hand-colored etching
Ed. 1st ed.
9 x 5.25 inches
Category
1790s Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Etching
Still Life - Screen Print 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
Screen
Iris
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Iris" 1996 is a original color lithograph on Wove paper by noted American artist Gary Bukovnik, born 1947. It is hand signed, dated and numbered 131/135 in penci...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Fern-15
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Carborundum and intaglio. Signed and numbered from the edition of 25.
Tachibana’s prints take their inspiration from nature, a meditation on the forms and shapes of water, ferns an...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Intaglio
Fig-marigold Showy, Mesembryanthem spectabile Plate 396
Located in Columbia, MO
Fig-marigold Showy, Mesembryanthem spectabile Plate 396
1797
Hand-colored etching
Ed. 1st ed.
9 x 5.25 inches
Category
1790s Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Etching
Wallflower 14
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Donald Sultan
Title: Wallflower 14
Portfolio: Wallflowers
Medium: Screenprint on paper
Date: 2008
Edition: 71/190
Frame Size: 31" x 28 1/2"
Sheet Size: 24 1/4" x 21 1/2"
Sign...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Paper, Screen
Fern 14
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Carborundum and intaglio. Signed and numbered from the edition of 25.
Tachibana’s prints take their inspiration from nature, a meditation on the forms and shapes of water, ferns an...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Intaglio
Fleur - Lithograph by Fernand Léger - 1952
Located in Roma, IT
Fleur is an original contemporary artwork realized by Fernand Leger.
Mixed colored lithograph.
Hand Signed and numbered on the lower margin.
Edition of 11/30
Reference: Catalogue...
Category
1950s Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Les Cyclamens, Cubist Lithograph by Pablo Picasso
Located in Long Island City, NY
Resting on a surface against a golden yellow background, the pot of cyclamens is rendered with loose, flowing lines and minimal color. A lithograph from the Marina Picasso Estate Collection...
Category
Late 20th Century Cubist Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Still Life - Offset Print by Franco Gentilini - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Flower is a Vintage Offset Print on ivory-colored paper, realized by Franco Gentilini (Italian Painter, 1909-1981) in the 1970s.
The state of preservation of the artwork is excellen...
Category
1970s Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Offset, Paper
Neula, Forest Art, Landscape, Black and White Woodland Art, Monochrome Artwork
By Sarah Duncan
Located in Deddington, GB
Neula is a limited edition signed etching print on paper by Sarah Duncan of a black and white snowy forest in the winter with the trees bare and snow on the ground. This work is in a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Still-life Prints
Materials
Paper, Etching
Garden Moments I
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Ellen Gunn (1951- )
Title: Garden Moments I
Medium: Screenprint
Image size: 22 x 26.75 inches
Sheet size: 22 x 26.75 inches
Signature: lower right
...
Category
1990s Impressionist Still-life Prints
Materials
Paper, Screen
Cactus
Located in Raleigh, NC
Cactus, a woodcut by Jaques Hnizdovsky in 1970, #37 from an edition of 150.
Tahir Cat. No. 93.
A fine dark impression with full margins.
No international sales!!
Category
1970s American Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Fruit Juice Bottles II, State II
By Tony Cragg
Located in Saint Louis, MO
Tony Cragg
Fruit Juice Bottles II, State 2, 1990
Color aquatint with spit bite aquatint
13 x 15 inches (33 x 38.1 cm)
Edition of 25
Category
1990s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Archival Paper, Aquatint
Summer Flowers Bouquet on Black Background, Limited Edition Still Life, Giclee
By Kind of Cyan
Located in Barcelona, ES
This is an exclusive limited edition color Giclée print, printed on matte photographic paper.
This exquisite still life photo, shows a classy bouquet beautifully lit with soft light...
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Prints
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, C Print, Giclée
Milk-vetch Montpelier, Astragalus monspessulanus Plate 375
Located in Columbia, MO
Milk-vetch Montpelier, Astragalus monspessulanus Plate 375
1797
Hand-colored etching
Ed. 1st ed.
9 x 5.25 inches
Category
1790s Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Etching
Aqua Flora X No 15, floral art, limited edition art, photographic print
Located in Deddington, GB
Diasec® mounting is a time proven system that has set the benchmark for face mounting photographic and fine art prints. Developed in the late 1960’s Diasec® was the first system that...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Color
Full Window
Located in Slovak Republic, SK
These days are also bringing "full windows", happily full with books. Done during a city walk. Hope you like the look, limited edition of 15. Signed by the author.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment, Photographic Paper
"Sum of the Parts" - Abstract Etching in Ink on Paper (#3/20)
By Doris Warner
Located in Soquel, CA
"Sum of the Parts" - Abstract Etching in Ink on Paper (#3/20)
Dark abstract print by Doris Ann Warner (American, 1925-2010). This piece is dark and saturated, with three rows of three similarly shaped objects. They are somewhat rectangular, but with rounded corners, like stacked rocks...
Category
1980s Abstract Impressionist Still-life Prints
Materials
Paper, Ink, Etching
Still Life - Screen Print 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).
Screen print on cardboard
Hand-signed on the lower right in pencil and dated...
Category
1970s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
Blue Triptych of Trio of Palms, Tropical Botanical Cyanotype, Watercolor Paper
By Kind of Cyan
Located in Barcelona, ES
This series of cyanotype triptychs showcases the beauty of nature scenes, including stunning beaches and oceans, as well as the intricate textures of water, forests, and skies. These triptychs are large pieces that feature lush blues, making them an impressive addition to any beautifully designed space.
Each triptych is printed by hand and carefully crafted to capture the unique essence of these natural environments, with a focus on the interplay of light and shadows, and the subtle nuances of tone and texture.
The beach and ocean scenes depict the dynamic beauty of waves crashing against the shore, with the cyanotype process lending a dreamy, ethereal quality to the images. Similarly, the forest and wood scenes offer a glimpse into the hidden depths of nature, with the cyanotype process lending a sense of mystery and wonder to the images, while the lush blues of cyanotypes imitate the sky and clouds perfectly.
These triptychs are perfect for anyone who loves to surround themselves with the beauty of nature, and they make an excellent centerpiece for any beautifully designed space.
Details:
+ Title: Desert Palm Trio
+ Year: 2023
+ Edition Size: 20
+ Stamped and Certificate of Authenticity provided
+ Measurements : 100x210 cm (40 x 84 in.) Each paper measures 70x100 cm (28x 40 in.) each, a standard frame size
+ All cyanotype prints are made on high-quality Italian watercolor paper
WHAT IS A CYANOTYPE?
The cyanotype (a.k.a. sun-print) process is one of the oldest in the history of photography, dating back to the 1840's.
Cyanotypes were then made famous by Anna Atkins, considered the first female photographer. Inspired by nature, we feel the need to look back at a craft that is handmade, analogue, and using an all-natural light source: the sun.
Our cyanotypes are made by coating high-quality Italian watercolor paper with a light-sensitive emulsion. We then expose it in direct sunlight for several minutes using a photo negative...
Category
2010s Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Photographic Film, Emulsion, Watercolor, C Print, Color, Monotype, Photo...
Cyrilla Scarlet-flowered, Cyrilla pulchella Plate 374
Located in Columbia, MO
Cyrilla Scarlet-flowered, Cyrilla pulchella Plate 374
1797
Hand-colored etching
Ed. 1st ed.
9 x 5.25 inches
Category
1790s Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Etching
Fruit Dish and Pitcher (Nature morte: Compotier et cruche Esther Gentle)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Pablo Picasso (after)
Still Life: Fruit Dish and Pitcher (Nature morte: Compotier et cruche)
Year: 1937
Lithograph
Size: 17.25x21 on 19.9x25.6 inches
Esther Gentle, Reproduction, 1952
Signed and dated in the stone
stamped by Gentle recto
COA provided
COA provided
Ref.: Guggenheim; Accession 78.2514.61
Ref.: 924802-1342
Pablo Ruiz Picasso...
Category
1930s Cubist Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Arbitrary Sprinkles
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Signed, titled, and numbered from the edition of 15. Large multi-layer cake with sprinkles. While the images have some resemblance to traditional Japanese Ukiyo-e prints, their sense of whimsy, satire and irony relate more closely to contemporary life and western sensibilities. Young women and their relationships to shoes, food, and fashion provide much of Hiratsuka’s subject matter. Another group of his prints focus on landscape, flowers, and floral patterns.
Hiratsuka’s graphic work has been exhibited in the Americas, Europe and Asia. He has received numerous awards in international competitions. During the last four years he has had 14 solo shows in the United States, and international solo shows in Gabrovo, Bulgaria, Munich, Germany and Geneva, Switzerland.
Partial list of public collections:
The British Museum, UK
Tokyo Central Museum, Japan
Panstwowe Museum, Poland
The House of Humor and Satire, Bulgaria
Cincinnati Art Museum, OH
Jundt Art Museum, WA
The Portland Art Museum...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Wallflower 22
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Donald Sultan
Title: Wallflower 22
Portfolio: Wallflowers
Medium: Screenprint on paper
Date: 2008
Edition: 106/190
Frame Size: 29 3/8" x 26 3/4"
Sheet Size: 24 1/4" x 21 1/2"...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen, Paper
Ferns - Acrostichum Crassinerve, antique fern botanical woodblock print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Antique 19th century fern colour woodblock by Benjamin Fawcett after AF Lydon. From Edward J. Lowe’s 'Ferns: British and Exotic', 1867.
Accompanied by a sheet of descriptive text.
...
Category
Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Wallflower 23
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Donald Sultan
Title: Wallflower 23
Portfolio: Wallflowers
Medium: Screenprint on paper
Date: 2008
Edition: 106/190
Sheet Size: 24 1/4" x 21 1/2"
Signature: Signed and numbere...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Paper, Screen
------- Shining-leaved, Salvia formosa Plate 376
Located in Columbia, MO
—– Shining-leaved, Salvia formosa Plate 376
1797
Hand-colored etching
Ed. 1st ed.
9 x 5.25 inches
Category
1790s Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Etching
Dogs 2 - Contemporary Woodcut Print, Figurative, Black & white, Polish artist
Located in Warsaw, PL
ZDZISŁAW WIATR (born 1960)
He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, at the Faculty of Graphic Arts in Katowice, where in 1986 he received a diploma with the honourable m...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Paper, Woodcut
Marvel of Peru Common, Mirabilis jalapa Plate 371
Located in Columbia, MO
Marvel of Peru Common, Mirabilis jalapa Plate 371
1797
Hand-colored etching
Ed. 1st ed.
9 x 5.25 inches
Category
1790s Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Etching
Corn-flag Copper coloured, Gladiolus securiger Plate 383
Located in Columbia, MO
Corn-flag Copper coloured, Gladiolus securiger Plate 383
1797
Hand-colored etching
Ed. 1st ed.
9 x 5.25 inches
Category
1790s Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Etching
Furze (Ulex Europaeus), antique botanical lithograph
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Furze (Ulex Europaeus, Linne)'
Colour lithograph, 1909.
Category
Early 20th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Classic Botanical Cyanotype of Vintage Pressed Flowers, Artisan Made, Blue Tones
By Kind of Cyan
Located in Barcelona, ES
This is an exclusive handprinted limited edition cyanotype.
Details:
+ Title: Vintage Pressed Flowers Nº4
+ Year: 2022
+ Edition Size: 20
+ St...
Category
2010s Baroque Still-life Prints
Materials
Photographic Film, Other Medium, Emulsion, Watercolor, Archival Paper, P...
Wallflower 26
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Donald Sultan
Title: Wallflower 26
Portfolio: Wallflowers
Medium: Screenprint on paper
Date: 2008
Edition: 106/190
Frame Size: 31" x 28 1/2"
Sheet Size: 24 1/4" x 21 1/2"
Sig...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Paper, Screen
Wallflower 2
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Donald Sultan
Title: Wallflower 2
Portfolio: Wallflowers
Medium: Screenprint on paper
Date: 2008
Edition: 106/190
Frame Size: 31" x 28 1/2"
Sheet Size: 24 1/4" x 21 1/2"
Sign...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Paper, Screen
Wallflower 5
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Donald Sultan
Title: Wallflower 5
Portfolio: Wallflowers
Medium: Screenprint on paper
Date: 2008
Edition: 71/190
Frame Size: 31" x 28 1/2"
Sheet Size: 24 1/4" x 21 1/2"
Signa...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Paper, Screen
Mezza Luna
By Julio Larraz
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THIS PIECE: Julio Larraz is an expert draftsman, adroitly sketching his subjects and enlivening them with vibrant color. Larraz is recognized for his precise and detailed techn...
Category
Early 2000s Still-life Prints
Materials
Photographic Paper
Amaryllis Waved-flowerd, Amaryllis undulatea Plate 369
Located in Columbia, MO
Amaryllis Waved-flowerd, Amaryllis undulatea Plate 369
1797
Hand-colored etching
Ed. 1st ed.
9 x 5.25 inches
Category
1790s Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Etching
A Pair of Flamingos, A Pair of Giraffes and A Pair of Elephants Triptych
Located in Deddington, GB
Individual size: H:20 cm x W:20 cm
Total size : H:20 cm x W:60 cm x D:0.1cm
A Pair of Flamingos, A Pair of Giraffes and A Pair of Elephants Triptych are limited...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Paper, Screen
After Jan Brueghel the Elder (1568 - 1625).Flowers in a Wooden Vessel
Located in Sydney, NSW
Artist: After Jan Brueghel the Elder (Flemish 1568 - 1625).
Title: Flowers in a Wooden Vessel. Limited Edition of 100 Prints.
Medium: Giclée Fine Art Print on Ilford Galerie Textured...
Category
16th Century Old Masters Still-life Prints
Materials
Archival Ink, Rag Paper
Golden Tjoy
Located in Milano, IT
GOLDEN TJOY
2019
From “Sexy Golden fruit" project
Measurement: CM 90x120
Print run 2/6+2PA
Digital Photography Fine Art Print on Canson Infinity Platine Photo Rag , Epson UltraChr...
Category
2010s Pop Art Still-life Prints
Materials
Plexiglass, Digital, Digital Pigment, Lambda
Red Rose in Vintage Light, Limited Edition Giclée Print, Vertical Still Life
By Kind of Cyan
Located in Barcelona, ES
This is an exclusive limited edition color Giclée print, printed on matte photographic paper.
This exquisite still life photo, shows a classy bouquet beautifully lit with soft light...
Category
2010s Romantic Still-life Prints
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, C Print, Giclée
LES DELICES PETITS MARTYRS
Located in Aventura, FL
Hand signed and numbered by the artist. From Les Diners De Gala. Photo lithograph with a separate original engraving titled Spoon on Crutches. Image size...
Category
1970s Surrealist Still-life Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Wallflower 21
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Donald Sultan
Title: Wallflower 21
Portfolio: Wallflowers
Medium: Screenprint on paper
Date: 2008
Edition: 106/190
Frame Size: 29 3/8" x 26 3/4"
Sheet Size: 24 1/4" x 21 1/2"...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Paper, Screen
NV24, Original Contemporary Art, Blue and White Abstract Art, Geometric Art
Located in Deddington, GB
NV24 is an original minimalist print by Jonathan Moss. The N.V series of unique, one-off, relief prints find their origin in his videos of fl...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Still-life Prints
Materials
Paper, Monoprint
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
Photographic Film, Photogram, Emulsion, Printer's Ink, Watercolor, Photo...
Heath Recurved, Erica retorta Plate 362
Located in Columbia, MO
Heath Recurved, Erica retorta Plate 362
1797
Hand-colored etching
Ed. 1st ed.
9 x 5.25 inches
Category
1790s Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Etching
Epidendrum Aloe-leaved, Epdendrum aloides Plate 387
Located in Columbia, MO
Epidendrum Aloe-leaved, Epdendrum aloides Plate 387
1797
Hand-colored etching
Ed. 1st ed.
9 x 5.25 inches
Category
1790s Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Etching
Craggula Tree, Crassula cotyledon Plate 384
Located in Columbia, MO
Craggula Tree, Crassula cotyledon Plate 384
1797
Hand-colored etching
Ed. 1st ed.
9 x 5.25 inches
Category
1790s Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Etching
Brunfelsia American, Brunfelsia americana Plate 393
Located in Columbia, MO
Brunfelsia American, Brunfelsia americana Plate 393
1797
Hand-colored etching
Ed. 1st ed.
9 x 5.25 inches
Category
1790s Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Etching
Mistletoe (Loranthus celastroides), antique botanical lithograph
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Mistletoe (Loranthus celastroides, Sieber)
Colour lithograph, 1909.
Category
Early 20th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Dish of Apples and Pears
Located in Provincetown, MA
Marsden Hartley is a seminal figure in American arts even eighty-plus years after his death. Hartley was a member of Alfred Stieglitz’s groundbreaking circle and painted easel-sized ...
Category
Early 20th Century American Impressionist Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"Night Moves" - Abstract Etching in Ink on Paper (Artist's Proof)
By Doris Warner
Located in Soquel, CA
"Night Moves" - Abstract Etching in Ink on Paper (Artist's Proof)
Textural abstract print by Doris Ann Warner (American, 1925-2010). This piece is composed of overlapping fabric patt...
Category
1980s Abstract Still-life Prints
Materials
Paper, Ink, Etching
Erhu
By James Jean
Located in Dallas, TX
Erhu is a signed and numbered time-limited edition of giclée prints. The erhu, or spike fiddle, typically has two strings, but the instrument being played here is missing a tuning sp...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Wallflower 27
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Donald Sultan
Title: Wallflower 27
Portfolio: Wallflowers
Medium: Screenprint on paper
Date: 2008
Edition: 106/190
Frame Size: 31" x 28 1/2"
Sheet Size: 24 1/4" x 21 1/2"
Sig...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen, Paper
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.