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Still-life Prints For Sale
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...
Category
1990s American Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Still Life With Irons - Color Lithograph - Bernard Buffet
Located in Sint-Truiden, BE
These works were printed in November 1967 by Fernand Mourlot, master lithographer in Paris.
Category
1960s Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$143 Sale Price
20% Off
Botanical Healers, still life, flowers, floral
Located in Deddington, GB
Plants are things of beauty, but they have a purpose beyond decoration. This piece invites quiet reflection on human’s relationship with plants. I love history and stories and was in...
Category
2010s Impressionist Still-life Prints
Materials
Watercolor
Ruby 1978 Signed Limited Edition Screen Print
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
Richard Bernstein
Ruby - 1978
Print - Silkscreen on Heavy Paper
Paper : 30'' x 26'' inches
image size : 28" x 23 ½" inches
Edition: Signed in pencil, titled, dated and marked 130/200...
Category
1970s Pop Art Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
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
$1,168
Pink Lilies on Marble Swirls, Contemporary Still Life Giclée Print, Soft Light
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 Post-Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Giclée
Valmier, Composition, L'Art Cubiste, Théories et Réalisations (after)
By Georges Valmier
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph and stencil on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the album, L'Art Cubiste, Théories et Réalisations, Etude Critique...
Category
1920s Cubist Still-life Prints
Materials
Stencil, Lithograph
$1,916 Sale Price
20% Off
Papier collé, Société internationale d'art XXe siècle
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph, stencil on vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.4 x 9.65 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, XXe siècle, Nouvelle série N° 6...
Category
1950s Cubist Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$796 Sale Price
20% Off
"Balloon Milkweed/Memories", Contemporary, Botanical, Black and White Photograph
Located in Franklin, MA
Vicki McKenna’s “Balloon Milkweed/Memories” is a 8 x 10 inch (image size), 14 x 16 inches (matted), handcrafted, platinum/palladium, photographic print. The contemporary black and wh...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Rag Paper, Black and White
Mark Drew — Business Kid (Gangstarr), Silver Metallic Variant Street Art Rap
By Mark Drew
Located in Draper, UT
Mark Drew — Business Kid (Gangstarr), Silver Metallic Variant (2025)
In this striking silver variant of Business Kid (Gangstarr), Mark Drew marries nostalgic comic imagery with hip-...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
Still Life with Pink Poppy (floral, still life, watercolor, flowers)
Located in New York, NY
Watercolor on paper
32 x 25 inches framed
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
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
Still Life With Coffee Cup And Carafe
Located in Roma, IT
Original etching by Giorgio Morandi. Hand signed lower right and hand numbered lower left. Edition of 40 prints.
The artwork is also signed and dated on plate. Image dimensions: 24 x...
Category
1920s Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Etching
Roy Lichtenstein Still Life with Goldfish Bowl Vintage Pop Art
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Still Life with Goldfish Bowl is a 1980 vintage blank greeting card, originally printed for the Guggenheim Museum. The card is framed in a white wood frame with a front profile of 1 ...
Category
1980s Pop Art Still-life Prints
Materials
Offset
$200 Sale Price
20% Off
Untitled (floral, still life, watercolor, bright colors, white space, flowers)
Located in New York, NY
Watercolor on paper
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Bouquet, Modern Lithograph by Bernard Buffet
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Bernard Buffet, French (1928 - 1999)
Title: Bouquet
Year: circa 1968
Medium: Lithograph, signed in the plate
Size: 13 in. x 9.5 in. (33.02 cm x 24.13 cm)
Category
1960s Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Birds Included (floral, still life, watercolor, bright colors, flowers, birds)
Located in New York, NY
Monotype and watercolor on paper
44 x 33 inches framed
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Monotype
Blue Glove ( Michael Jackson ) 40" x 30"
Located in San Francisco, CA
Blue Glove (Michael Jackson) by Tom Schierlitz
a highly detailed glamorous still life photograph of the performer's iconic blue and gold sequin and Swarovski rhinestone crystal glove...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Still-Life with Fruits - Original Lithograph
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Paris, IDF
Raoul DUFY
Still-Life with Fruits, 1953
Original Lithograph with stencil watercolor
With printed signature in the plate
On Arches vellum
28 x 37.5 cm (c. 11 x 14.8 inch)
Excellent ...
Category
1950s Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Tree with moth, caterpillar..., Plate 39, Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium
Located in Middletown, NY
Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium, Plate No. 39; Unidentified tree with moth, caterpillar and pupa.
The Netherlands: 1705....
Category
Early 18th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Engraving
Galerie Dina Vierny after Henri Matisse, 1982
Located in New York, NY
This photo-lithographic poster was printed at the Atelier Mourlot in Paris in 1982 with the permission of the Matisse estate to promote the works by Henri Matisse at the Galerie Dina...
Category
1980s Abstract Impressionist Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
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
Three Deer, Pop Art Screenprint by Hunt Slonem
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Hunt Slonem, American (1951 - )
Title: Three Deer
Year: 1980
Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: AP 30
Image Size: 24 x 32 inches
Size: 26 in. ...
Category
1980s Pop Art Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
Donald Sultan 'Seven Silvers Jan. 24, 2024' - Limited Edition Silkscreen
Located in New York, NY
Donald Sultan's 'Seven Silvers Jan. 24, 2024' is a masterful color silkscreen featuring enamel inks, flocking, and tar-like textures, limited to an edition of 30.
Donald Sułtan
Seve...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
Papaya and Moth Metamorphosis: 18th C. Hand-colored Engraving by Maria Merian
Located in Alamo, CA
This exquisite hand-colored 18th century folio-sized engraving of a papaya plant and moth metamorphosis is plate 64 from Maria Sibylla Merian's publication '...
Category
Early 18th Century Academic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving
Untitled (Still Life)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Still Life)
Etching, aquatint and soft ground, 2001
Signed in pencil (see photo)
Edition: 260
Published by the Print Club of Cleveland, Publication 80, 2002
Printed by Felix Harlan at Harlan and Weaver, New York
William Bailey, Modernist Figurative Painter, Dies at 89
He swathed his nudes and still lifes of eggs, vases, bottles and bowls in a breathless, deceptively serene atmosphere heavy with mystery.
The painter William Bailey in 2009. He was never given a career survey in a major museum, but his influence, particulary on students at Yale, was deep.Credit...Ford Bailey
By William Grimes for the New York Times
April 18, 2020
William Bailey, whose pristine, idealized still lifes and female nudes made him one of the leading figures in the return of figurative art in the 1980s, died on April 13 at his home in Branford, Conn. He was 89.
His death was confirmed by his daughter, Alix Bailey.
Beyond his painting, Mr. Bailey influenced generations of students in his many years as a teacher at the Yale School of Art.
In some of his best-known work, Mr. Bailey arranged simple objects — the eggs, bowls, bottles and vases that he once called “my repertory company” — along a severe horizontal shelf, or on a plain table, swathing them in a breathless, deceptively serene atmosphere heavy with mystery.
His muted ochres, grays and powdery blues conjured up a still, timeless world inhabited by Platonic forms, recognizable but uncanny, in part because he painted from imagination rather than
“They are at once vividly real and objects in dream, and it is the poetry of this double life that elevates all this humble crockery to the realm of pictorial romance,” Hilton Kramer wrote in The New York Times in 1979.
Mr. Bailey’s female figures, some clothed in a simple shift or robe and others partly or entirely nude, are disconcertingly impassive, implacable and unreadable, fleshly presences breathing an otherworldly air.
The critic Mark Stevens, writing in Newsweek in 1982, credited Mr. Bailey with helping to “restore representational art to a position of consequence in modern painting.”
But his version of representation was entirely idiosyncratic, seemingly traditional but in fact “a modernism so contrarian,” the artist Alexi Worth wrote in a catalog essay for the Betty Cuningham Gallery in 2010, “that it feels, despite its historical sophistication, almost like a brand of outsider art.”
William Harrison Bailey...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Etching
Double Decoy II, Pop Art Screenprint by Hunt Slonem
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Hunt Slonem, American (1951 - )
Title: Double Decoy II
Year: 1980
Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 200, AP
Image Size: 19.5 x 23 inches
Size: ...
Category
1970s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
Sandwich and Soda (Corlett 35), X + X, Roy Lichtenstein
Located in Southampton, NY
Silkscreen on Mylar. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, X + X, Ten Works by Ten Painters, 1964. Published by the Wadsworth Athene...
Category
1960s Pop Art Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
$31,996 Sale Price
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Curtains, Pop Art Screenprint by Hunt Slonem
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Hunt Slonem, American (1951 - )
Title: Curtains
Year: 1981
Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: HC 10
Image Size: 22 x 26.5 inches
Size: 26 ...
Category
1980s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
Set of Six Hand-Colored Engravings from Curtis's Botanical Magazine /// Botany
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: William Curtis (English, 1746-1799)
Title: Set of Six Hand-Colored Engravings
Portfolio: The Botanical Magazine; or, Flower-Garden Displayed
Year: 1794-1812 (First-second ser...
Category
1790s Victorian Still-life Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Engraving, Intaglio
Day Dreaming, Limited Edition Print, Collograph Print, Chine Colle
Located in Deddington, GB
Vicky Oldfield
Day Dreaming
Limited Edition Collograph Print
Edition of 30
Image Size: H 10cm x W 10cm
Sheet Size: H 17.5cm x W 17.5cm x D 0.1cm
Sold ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Printer's Ink
Cactus, English antique red flower botanical chromolithograph, 1895
By Frederick William Hulme
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Cactus'
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 an...
Category
Late 19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
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
$250 Sale Price
50% Off
David Shrigley - It's A Long Day, When You Get Up Early
Located in London, GB
80 x 60 cm
Off-set lithography
Printed on 200g Munken Lynx paper
Narayana Press in Denmark
David Shrigley is a British visual artist known for his distinctive, whimsical, and often ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
PRÉVOST. Print from Collection des Fleurs et des Fruits
Located in London, GB
Original stipple engraving by Charles-Louis Ruotte, printed in colour and finished by hand.
[Paris, 1805]
Prévost came from a long line of French artists spanning 400 years. Jean-...
Category
Early 1800s Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Color, Engraving, Handmade Paper
Midnight Magnolia Diptych (Two 24 x 18 inch cyanotypes)
Located in Oakland, CA
These are two 24 x 18-inch hand-printed photographs using the 170-year-old cyanotype process. They are actually negatives (a reversal of the dark and light tones) of the original pho...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram
$480 Sale Price
20% Off
FlorDali/Les Fruits Cherries
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali
TITLE: FlorDali/Les Fruits Cherries
MEDIUM: Etching
SIGNED: Hand Signed
PUBLISHER: Jean Schneider, Basel
EDITION NUMBER: 109/200
MEASUREMENTS: 22" x 30"
...
Category
1960s Surrealist Still-life Prints
Materials
Etching
Misty Evening Poppies (20 x 14 inch cyanotype)
Located in Oakland, CA
These are the silhouettes of the native Californian Matilija Poppy also known as giant tree poppies and Coulter's Poppy. They grow over 4 feet tall and appear each year in summer.
...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
A. M.
By Janet Fish
Located in Portland, ME
Fish, Janet (American, born 1938). A. M. Color Screenprint, 1994. Edition of 60, printed and published by Stewart & Stewart. Signed in pencil and numbered 16/60. 24 x 36 inches (ima...
Category
1990s Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
$4,800
Georgia O'Keeffe, Limited Edition Flower Poster with beautiful Friendship Quote
By Georgia O'Keeffe
Located in New York, NY
Georgia O'Keeffe, Red Poppy poster, with Friendship Quote, 1987
"Still - in a way - nobody sees a flower - it is so small - we haven't time- and to see takes time, like to have a fr...
Category
1980s American Realist Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Magritte, Sans titre, 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
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
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Three-Panel Family Portrait and Still Life Print on Dibond – The Dinners 7/25
Located in FISTERRA, ES
This three-panel limited edition print by Natasha Lelenco forms part of her celebrated series The Dinners, a body of work exploring domestic rituals, identity, and psychological presence. Edition 7 of 25, this configuration features three archetypal characters—mother, father, and grandfather—each seated before an elaborately patterned floral backdrop inspired by Eastern European textile...
Category
2010s Pop Art Still-life Prints
Materials
Metal
Double Red Campion, English antique pink flower botanical chromolithograph, 1895
By Frederick William Hulme
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Double Red Campion'
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...
Category
Late 19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Carnations, Still Life Screenprint by John Grillo
By John Grillo
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: John Grillo, American (1917 - 2014)
Title: Carnations
Year: 1979
Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 200, AP 25
Image Size: 22.5 x 16.5 inches
S...
Category
1970s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
iPad Drawing No.281 (23rd July 2010) by David Hockney
Located in London, GB
IPAD DRAWING NO.281, 2010
iPad drawing, 8-colour inkjet print on cotton-fiber archival paper
Co-published by the Artist and Taschen, Berlin, to accompany the Art Edition of 'David ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Digital
Prestigious
Located in Slovak Republic, SK
Fine Art Print, photographed in the US., Limited edition.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Archival Paper, Black and White, Archival Pigment
$268 Sale Price
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Wallflowers, Pop Art Screenprint by Donald Sultan
Located in Long Island City, NY
A stunning blue screenprint of “Wallflowers” by Contemporary Master Donald Sultan, which can only be described as minimalist, with flair. Hand-signed and numbered from the edition of...
Category
1990s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
Seasons 1981 Photo Color Copier Print Photograph Museum Collected Art Xerography
Located in Surfside, FL
SEASONS (1981)
This is for the single print listed here. (not the outside folder or title sheet)
Children in water. This one is not hand signed although the rest in the portfolio wer...
Category
1980s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Color
Harvest Flowers, Modern Screenprint by George Lockwood
Located in Long Island City, NY
George Lockwood, American (1929 - 1969) - Harvest Flowers, Year: circa 1963, Medium: Screenprint on Arches, signed, titled and numbered in pencil, Edition: 1/20, Image Size: 18 x 2...
Category
1960s Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
Plymouth Street ( a twilight scene is set in the Brooklyn section of DUMBO)
Located in New Orleans, LA
This view of the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges is looking down "Plymouth Street" to the intersection of Jay Street. It is #35 in the catalogue raisonne by Retif & Salzer and is in the permanent collection of the Museum of City of New York...
Category
1990s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Mezzotint, Aquatint
Rare Abstract Expressionist flower lithograph, 1969 Top Chinese-US artist Signed
By Walasse Ting
Located in New York, NY
Walasse Ting 丁雄泉
Abstract Expressionist Flower, 1969
Color lithograph with publisher's blindstamp
Pencil signed, dated, and numbered IV/XV by Walasse Ting on the front
23 × 30 inche...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Pencil
Still Life with Fruits - Original Lithograph Handsigned and Numbered (Mourlot)
By Isis Kischka
Located in Paris, IDF
Isis Kischka
Still life with fruits, 1973
Original lithograph (Mourlot Workshop)
Handsigned in pencil
Numbered /120 copies
On Arches vellum 76 x 54 cm (c. 29,9 x 21,2 inch)
Excelle...
Category
1970s Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Triangle Architecture Still Life, Yellow, Pink, Green Vivid Tones, Architecture
Located in Barcelona, ES
"Sexy Miami Futuristic Cocktail Lounge" is a series of photographs by Ryan Rivadeneyra inspired by the Art Deco colors of Miami that show beautiful objects ...
Category
2010s Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Photographic Paper, C Print, Digital, G...
Yellow Poppies, Aug 17, 2022
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Donald Sultan
Title: Yellow Poppies, Aug 17, 2022
Portfolio: 2022 Poppies Portfolio
Medium: Silkscreen with overprinted flocking on 4-ply Rising M...
Category
2010s Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
Laelias and Cattleyas, English antique flower orchid chromolithograph, 1896
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Laelias and Cattleyas'
Flowers are numbered with a key to the varieties below the image.
Antique English flower botanical chromolithograph.
Category
Late 19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Round-leaved Pellaea, antique fern botanical plant lithograph print, 1859
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Antique 19th century fern lithograph with original hand-colouring , 1859, after Walter Hood Fitch.
310mm by 250mm (sheet)
Walter Hood Fitch was one of the...
Category
Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
'Map of Life', University of Fine Arts, Tokyo, Still Life of Flowers, Benezit
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, "Ryonosuke Fukui" (Japanese, 1923-1986), a listed artist, and created circa 1965.
An artist's proof, hand-colored etching comprising superimposed, stylized plan...
Category
1960s Still-life Prints
Materials
Paper, Etching
Grape Hyacinth, English antique mauve flower botanical chromolithograph, 1895
By Frederick William Hulme
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Grape Hyacinth'
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 Fre...
Category
Late 19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
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
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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