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Champignons, French antique mushroom fungi chromolithograph, 1910
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'176. Boletus piperatus 177. Boletus casteneus 178. Boletus bovinus' Antique French mushroom / fungi chromolithograph. From "Atlas des champignons de France, Suisse et Belgique," a...
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Early 20th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Gabrielle, Portraits Lithograph by Gina Lombardi Bratter
Located in Long Island City, NY
Gina Lombardi Bratter, American - Gabrielle, Year: 1980, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: AP 30, Size: 33 in. x 21 in. (83...
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1980s Modern Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Path # 4 pastel color abstract floral still life photo composition
Located in New York, NY
This floral photography has a dramatic sense of composition which recalls the careful arrangements of Dutch and Flemish still life paintings from the 17-18 century. Belgian photog...
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2010s Abstract Still-life Prints

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Digital Pigment

Les Caprices Pinces Princiers from Les Diners de Gala series by Salvador Dali
Located in Paonia, CO
Les Caprices Pinces Princiers (Princely Pliers Caprices) from the  series Les Diners de Gala  by Salvador Dali is one of 12 photolithographs of orn...
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1970s Surrealist Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

ROCKY 36x48 Sylvester Stallone Photomosaic Photography Pop Art Aluminum Print
Located in Los Angeles, CA
"Rocky" is an acrylic photomosaic artwork by Destro. The first release in a series mosaic works called "Icons". Destro has created large prints which are made up of many hundreds of...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Still-life Prints

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Archival Pigment

Alexander Street
Located in London, GB
Howard Hodgkin Alexander Street, 1978 Serigraph in multiple colours on Velin Arches 300 gsm mould-made paper with deckled edges Signed, dated and numbered to lower edge '42/90 Hodgki...
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1970s Post-Modern Still-life Prints

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Screen

Original Caribbean - South America Cruise vintage travel poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Caribbean South America Holland America Cruises vintage poster. S.S. Rotterdam and the S.S. Statedam cruise ships. Artist: David Klein. Archivally linen-backed and ready to frame. In excellent condition. Note that his poster was printed with a shiny surface. David Klein was the notable artist that created most of TWA’s travel posters...
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1970s American Modern Still-life Prints

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Offset

Omphalodes Lucillae, antique botanical flower lithograph print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Botanical lithograph with original hand-colouring , 1873, by Walter Hood Fitch (1817-1892). 145mm by 235mm (sheet) Walter Hood Fitch was a Scottish botani...
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Late 19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Flowering Digitalis Plants: An Original 17th C. Botanical Engraving by E. Sweert
By Emanuel Sweert
Located in Alamo, CA
This beautiful and extremely rare early 17th century hand-colored copperplate engraving of four flowering Digitalis plants by the Dutch artist and botanist Emanuel Sweert is plate 6 ...
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Early 17th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints

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Engraving

Goldenrod (from Flowers Portfolio)
Located in Calabasas, CA
Artist: Alex Katz Title: Goldenrod (from Flowers Portfolio) Year: 2021 Medium: Archival pigment ink on Innova Etching Cotton Rag 315 gsm fine art paper Edition: 100; signed and num...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Archival Pigment

Pink Background Still Life Scene, Cup of Tea, Wood Croissant, Retro, Giclée
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 and textures arranged meti...
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2010s Art Deco Still-life Prints

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Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, C Print, Digital, Giclée, Archiva...

Picasso, Composition, L'Art Cubiste, Theories et Realistions (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
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...
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1920s Cubist Still-life Prints

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Lithograph, Stencil

48x36 "Andy Warhol" Photomosaic Pop Fine Art Exhibition Print
Located in Los Angeles, CA
"Andy" is a photomosaic artwork by Destro. Destro has created large prints which are made up of many hundreds of smaller images. Museum grade exhibition poster print
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21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Still-life Prints

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Archival Pigment

3 x Prints - Rise Up, Stand Up, Speak Up
Located in London, GB
Ben Eine 3 x prints Rise Up, Stand Up, Speak Up 1 layer blend with black overlay on Somerset printmaking paper 50 x 50 cm - each 19.69 x 19.69 in Edition of 150 Ben Eine is a promin...
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2010s Street Art Still-life Prints

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Screen

Rare Abstract Expressionist flower lithograph, 1969 Top Chinese-US artist Signed
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...
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1960s Abstract Expressionist Still-life Prints

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Lithograph, Pencil

Night Laurel Diptych (Hand-printed cyanotype, 40 x 52 inches combined)
Located in Oakland, CA
Unframed. Two 40h x 26w inch monotypes. Signed on the back by the artist. Images of the prints framed are just to give a sense of how much wall they would cover once framed with a...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Monotype, Photogram

Canna Lily
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Canna Lily Color woodcut, 1939 Unsigned (as usual) Publisher: Takemura Hideo (active Yokohama 1926-1939) Format: oban Condition: Excellent Image/Sheet size: 15 5/8 x 11 inches Provenance: Robert O. Muller There is little biographical data available about the Japanese printmaker Hodo Nishimura...
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1930s Modern Still-life Prints

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Woodcut

Ferns - Lomaria Nigra, antique fern lithograph print, 1854
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Antique 19th century fern lithograph with original hand-colouring , 1854, after Walter Hood Fitch. 250mm by 170mm (sheet) Walter Hood Fitch was one...
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Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

After All, by Yuji Hiratsuka
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Medium: Intaglio and Chine Colle Year: 2022 Image Size: 18 x 12 inches Edition of 15 A decorated vase with tulips on a patternd tablecloth. While Hiratsuka's images have some resemb...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Etching, Aquatint, Intaglio

2 PEARS, A LEMON, AND AN EGG
Located in Aventura, FL
Hand titled, dated, initialed and numbered by the artist. From the Fruits and Flowers suite. Sheet size 23 x 22 inches. Image size 12 x 12 inches. Frame size approx 31 x 30 inches. A...
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1990s Pop Art Still-life Prints

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Paper, Screen

Dignimont, Le bouquet, Dignimont (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and stencil on vélin de Rives paper. Inscription: signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Dignimont, 1946. Published by Éditi...
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1940s Modern Still-life Prints

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Lithograph, Stencil

Frontispiece, 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

Braque, Zelos, 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° 36-37-38, 1951. Published by Aimé Maeght, Éditeur, Pari...
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1950s Modern Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Small Blue Primrose : Original lithograph - Mourlot 1980
Located in Paris, IDF
Bernard BUFFET Small blue primrose Stone lithograph (printed in Mourlot workshop) Printed signature in the plate On Arches vellum c. 8 x 6" (20 x 15 cm) REFERENCE : Catalog raisonn...
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1980s Modern Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

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] Prevost's "Collection des Fleurs et Fruits...
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Early 1800s Naturalistic Still-life Prints

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Color, Engraving, Handmade Paper

Green Herbarium
Located in London, GB
Marc Quinn Green Herbarium, 2024 Hand-pulled 4-Layer Screen Print on Mohawk Superfine 352gsm paper Embossed, signed and numbered on the front 60 x 45 cm Edition of 45 Marc Quinn is ...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Screen

Glaucium Violaccum (Violet Horned-Poppy) /// James Sowerby Botanical Flower Art
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: James Sowerby (English, 1757-1822) Title: "Glaucium Violaccum (Violet Horned-Poppy)" (Vol. 3, Plate 201) Portfolio: English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants Year: 1794 (First edition) Medium: Original Hand-Colored Engraving on cream wove paper Limited edition: Unknown Printer: J. Davis...
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1790s Victorian Still-life Prints

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Watercolor, Engraving, Intaglio

Still Life
Located in Berlin, MD
René Genis (French 1922-2004) Untitled Still Life on thick woven paper. Signed in pencil lower right and numbered 37/80 lower left. Image size 11"x8 1/2" frame 22" x 18." Genis was...
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Mid-20th Century French School Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Tiger Lily
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Tiger Lily Color woodcut, 1939 Unsigned (as usual) Publisher: Takemura Hideo (active Yokohama 1926-1940) Condition: Excellent Image/sheet size: 15 3/8 x 10 7/8 inches Provenance: Robert O. Muller Estate Biography Hodo Nishimura...
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1930s Modern Still-life Prints

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Woodcut

Aranzo Gigante Verrucoso & Limon di Fior Doppio, 4 prints
Located in Middletown, NY
Joseph de Montalegre (after) Aranzo Gigante Verrucoso & Limon di Fior Doppio, 4 prints 1702-1725. Four (4) reproductive prints with handcoloring on thick C.M. Fabriano cotton wove ...
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Late 17th Century French School Still-life Prints

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Watercolor, Handmade Paper

A Flowering Cactus Plant: 18th C. Hand-colored Botanical Engraving by Weinmann
Located in Alamo, CA
This hand-colored botanical mezzotint and line engraving by Johann Wilhelm Weinmann (1683-1741) is entitled "Cereus Erectus Altissimo Surinamensis (Cereus Cactus Plant)". It is plate...
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Mid-18th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints

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Engraving, Mezzotint

Redoute Hand-colored Engraving of Cactus Flowers "Cactus Peruvianus Cierge"
Located in Alamo, CA
This framed hand-colored stipple engraving entitled "Cactus Peruvianus Cierge du Pérou" by Pierre-Joseph Redouté, Plate 58 from his illustrated publication 'Plantarum Historia Succulentarum ou Histoire des Plantes Grasses', published in Paris in 1799. It depicts a branching limb of a cactus with a beautiful flower. There is a separate detail of the anatomy of a seed with early growth. Redoute was a pioneer of the stipple engraving technique, which he used to create this image. It involves utilizing a series of small dots worked into a copper plate rather than the more common lines. These dots can be made smaller or thicker depending on the degree of opacity the artist intends for various areas of the print. When inked and applied to paper, this allows for a greater portion of the paper to be seen, which accentuates the appearance of luminosity of the subject the artist is creating. Different color inks are used in the printing process, a time consuming technique known as "a la poupee". The engraving is then finished with watercolor to further enhance the beauty and realism of the print subject. This engraving of a flowering cactus is presented in silver-colored ribbed wood frame and a double mat; cream-colored outer mat and heather green inner mat. The frame measures 21.25" high by 17.25" wide by 1.13" deep. The sheet measures 19.88" high by 14" wide. There are wide margins with a few short tears and chips along the the left, right and upper edges, which are all covered by the mat. There are small spots predominantly in the margins, with a few present in the image area. The print is otherwise in very good condition. There is another Redoute flowering cactus listed on 1stdibs, LU117326853392, which is framed and matted identically to this one. The pair would make an attractive display grouping. Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759-1840), was a painter and botanist originally from Belgium, who pursued his extremely successful artistic career in France. He is well known for his watercolor paintings of roses, lilies and other flowers and their subsequent folio-sized, color stipple engravings. Some believe him to be the greatest botanical illustrator of all time. Redouté was a favorite of the French royal court at the time and of the post French...
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Late 18th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints

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Engraving

Nature Morte - Etching by Leon Gaucherel - 1860s
Located in Roma, IT
Nature Morte is an artwork realized by Leon Gaucherel in the 1870s. Etching. Image size: 31 x 19 Good condition.  Realized for the "Société des Aquafortistes. Born on the initi...
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1870s Modern Still-life Prints

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Etching

Nature Morte au Pot de Grès - Lithograph by Pablo Picasso - 1947
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed in red pencil and numbered. Dated in plate. Edition 14/50. On Arches Wove Paper. Excellent condition. Reference: Bloch n.443; Mourlot 86.
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1940s Cubist Still-life Prints

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Paper, Lithograph

Window
Located in Belgrade, MT
Francis Tailleux was French born in Paris 1913-1981. He created his own style . He was influence by Gruber, Marchand and Tal-Coat. He ha many solo exhibitions in France, London and t...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Still-life Prints

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Color, Lithograph

Still Life with Watermelon
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Alvar (b.1935). Still Life with Watermelon, ca. 1970. Lithograph on paper, image measures 16 x 24.5; 24.5 x 29 inches framed. Signed and numbered in pencil by artist, lower margin. E...
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Mid-20th Century Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Kaller's [Top Hat and Gloves on Chair].
By Jules de Praetere
Located in New York, NY
1918. Color lithograph. On Linen. Julius de Praetere (Jules de Prater) was a Belgian painter, graphic designer, university lecturer and publisher in the field arts and textile de...
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1910s Art Deco Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Skulls -contemporary black and blue helmet inkjet print on Dibond
Located in London, GB
Hugh Turvey is a British artist and photographer who uses x-ray technology to create what he calls Xograms, a fusion of visible light and x-ray imagery. Hugh trained as a designer /...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Inkjet

Grapes
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Beth van Hoesen – American (1926- 2010) Title: Grapes Date: 1973 Medium: Color aquatint etching, drypoint on BFK Rives paper Image Size: 6 x 4.5 inches Sheet size: 15 x 11 in...
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1970s Realist Still-life Prints

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Paper, Color, Etching, Aquatint

Green Stripes
Located in Slovak Republic, SK
Fine Art Print, belongs to a collection "STRIPES". Limited edition of 10.
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Still-life Prints

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Photographic Paper, Color, Digital Pigment

"50X40" BOB MARLEY Photomosaic Pop Art Archival Fine Art Photography Print
Located in Los Angeles, CA
'Bob" 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

AC DC BACK IN BLACK 30x50 Photography Photograph Cassette Tape Fine Art Print
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A contemporary photograph of an AC/DC - Back In Black cassette tape. This is s the first release in the much anticipated series "The Music" by pop Artists Destro "They encapsulate an...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Still-life Prints

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Archival Pigment

Primula Sinensis, English antique flower chromolithograph, 1896
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Primula Sinensis' Antique English flower botanical chromolithograph.
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Late 19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Disco
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THIS PIECE: Disco is from Kimberly's "personal moments of happiness" series. LA based photographer Kimberly Genevieve is known for her use of color and interesting cropping. A...
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2010s Still-life Prints

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Photographic Paper

Op. 301 Three Marrons
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Three Marrons, Diamond drypoint by Jakob Demus. In the 1986-1988 period Demus immersed himself in the depiction of flowers, and it was then that the most important works in this ge...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Drypoint

Elegant Flower etching, signed/n Artists Proof, from Estate of renowned curator
Located in New York, NY
Lowell Nesbitt Untitled Flower, 1975 Etching on wove paper Hand signed, numbered AP and dated on the front 24 × 19 inches Unframed Poignant and exquisitely rendered etching of a flow...
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1970s Modern Still-life Prints

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Etching

Rust Iris 1979 Signed Limited Edition Screen Print
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
Lowell Nesbitt Rust Iris - 1979 Screen print on Arches archival paper    29'' x 29'' inches Edition: Signed in pencil, dated and marked 151/175 Lowell Nesbitt emerged as one of the ...
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1970s Pop Art Still-life Prints

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Screen

Pop Art, Rare Hand Signed Limited Edition, 'Pot au Feu'
Located in Cotignac, FR
A fine limited edition signed lithograph, 'Pot au Feu' by British artist Glynn Boyd Harte. The work is signed in pencil by the artist bottom right and numbered 12/125 (number 12 of 125) in pencil bottom left. Presented in a metal and wood frame under glass. A fantastic colourful and amusing view of a group of ingredients for a 'pot au feu' (a traditional French stew) as well as a box of candied (glacé) fruits and a map of Paris and its suburbs all presented on a bright pink checked table cloth. Boyd Harte always brought an enormous amount of humour to his paintings and compositions, there are wonderful details and 'jokes' hidden in the details. A really wonderful work ideal for a kitchen or anywhere else it can be seen and admired in detail. Glynn Boyd Harte 1948-2003 was an artist, illustrator, author, composer & pianist educated at St.Martin's School of Art and the Royal College of Art. "Glynn Boyd Harte was one of the most brilliant and influential illustrators and painters to emerge in the post pop world of London in the early 1970s" (The Guardian, London) Harte was born in Rochdale, his father Herbert worked as a commercial artist and later teaching. Harte always maintained that print was in his blood, his grandfather being a printer by trade and his earliest memory being a garden path made from lithograph stones. He was educated at Rochdale Grammar School, before progressing to the Rochdale School of Art. He later transferred to St Martin's School of Art, where tutor Fritz Wegner encouraged him to move from black and white to colour. He would later join the Royal College of Art in 1970 where his tutors were Brian Robb, Edward Bawden, Paul Hogarth...
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Late 20th Century Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

I love You
Located in London, GB
Peter Blake I Love You, 2010 Screenprint in colours with gold and silver leaf on wove paper Framed 136.5 x 42 cm Edition of 175 hand-signed and numbered by the artist published by CC...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Gold Leaf

"1930 Indian Scout 101" (2021) By Shan Fannin, Limited Edition Giclée Print
Located in Denver, CO
Shan Fannin's (US based) "1930 Indian Scout 101" is an limited edition giclée print that depicts a close view of a red Indian motorcycle gas tank w...
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2010s Photorealist Still-life Prints

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Giclée

Besler Hand Colored Botanical Engraving of Wood Pink & Cottage Pink Flowers
Located in Alamo, CA
A 17th century hand-colored copper plate engraving entitled "Caryophyllus Maior Sylve Strisvarie Gatus" (Wood Pink & Cottage Pink Flowers) 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 engraving is presented in a silver and gold-colored wood frame with a green edge and three elaborate cream-colored French mats...
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17th Century Old Masters Still-life Prints

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Engraving

Bowtie Araucaria, by Yuji Hiratsuka
Located in Palm Springs, CA
A young woman decorated with a Bowtie Araucaria tree, a tree that is known for its unique shape and winter hardiness. Signed, titled an numbered by the artist. While the images ha...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Intaglio

Magritte, Les Grands Oiseaux sont Ceux de L'Ile au Trésor (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph in Colours on Vélin d'Arches paper. Edition: 350, plus proofs. Signed in the plate by the artist; hand signed in pencil by the printer, Fernand Mourlot. Good Condition; ne...
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1960s Surrealist Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

NINE-ONE-ONE (Porsche 911) - large scale studio photograph of crashed automobile
Located in San Francisco, CA
9-1-1 (Porsche) by Frank Schott 48 x 66 inches / 122cm x 168cm signed edition of 7 29 x 40 inches / 74cm x 102cm signed edition of 25 archival quality fine art pigment print limit...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Giclée

ROCKY 36x48 Sylvester Stallone Photomosaic Photography Pop Art Print
Located in Los Angeles, CA
"Rocky" is an acrylic photomosaic artwork by Destro. The first release in a series mosaic works called "Icons". Destro has created large prints which are made up of many hundreds of...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Still-life Prints

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Archival Pigment

New York Stock Exchange (Symbolic icon of Wall St.'s vast power and wealth)
Located in New Orleans, LA
This color intaglio of the "New York Stock Exchange" was issued in a limited edition of 100. This impression is one of the Artist Proofs from the edition. The Stock Exchange is seen from Federal Hall...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Mezzotint, Aquatint

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° 153, 1965. Published by Aim...
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1960s Modern Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Nails, from Monochromes at the New Gallery, historic Pop Art lithograph Signed/N
Located in New York, NY
James Rosenquist Nails, from Monochromes at the New Gallery, 1975 Limited edition lithograph and offset lithograph (pencil signed and numbered) Signed and numbered 10/100 in graphite...
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1970s Pop Art Still-life Prints

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Lithograph, Offset

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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