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La Paire Amarette by Judith Rothchild - 2001
Located in New York, NY
La Paire Amarette by Judith Rothchild - 2001 Judith Rothchild is an American born artist, having grown up in Boston, Massachusetts. She now lives in the Lang...
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Early 2000s Still-life Prints

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Mezzotint, Etching

Still Life with Mandolin - Offset Poster After George Braque - 1986
Located in Roma, IT
Still Life with mandolin is an original artwork realized by George Braque d'apres in 1986. Offset poster realized for the "Collection of European Master Paintings...
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1980s Cubist Still-life Prints

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Offset

"Unremembered Dream" Dragon Fly and Barbed Wire - Intaglio Print
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful and evocative abstracted dry point etching of dragon fly and barbed wire titled "Rebirth" by Tomoya Uchida (Japanese, b. 1947). Presented in new custom cut mat. Unframed. Image size: 9"H x 15"W Titled "Unremembered Dream" along the bottom edge. Signed and dated "T. Uchida '89" in the lower right corner. Presented in a new custom-cut mat with foam core backing. Tomoya Uchida (Japanese, b. 1947) was born in Tsuyama City in the Okayama prefecture in Japan. He graduated from Doshisha University, Kyoto, in 1970, and went on to become the artist-in-residence at the KALA Institute of Prints in Berkeley, CA, in 1989. He then moved to Australia, where he studied under Prof. Jorg Schmeisser...
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1980s Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Paper, Ink, Drypoint

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

Leaf
Located in New Orleans, LA
This image is #17 of an edition of 35 Born in Charleroi, Belgium, Ravaux is an artist who mirrors her surroundings in the mezzotints she creates. She has portrayed see more . . . th...
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1990s Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Mezzotint

Rye bread. 1980, Paper, linocut, print size 50x65 cm; total 65x73 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Rye bread. 1980, Paper, linocut, print size 50x65 cm; total 65x73 cm Dainis Rozkalns (1928 - 2018) Artist, graphic artist, illustrator of folklore and fiction publications. The mai...
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1980s Abstract Geometric Still-life Prints

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Paper, Linocut

Gardenia - Limited Edition Print on Archival Paper, 2019
Located in Bal Harbour, FL
Gardenia, 2019 Giclée print available Cotton Paper. Acid and Lignin-free. 30 x 42 Inches Edition 1 of 10 + 2AP Price: $3,000 Limited Edition Print ___________ About the Artist Francisca Oyhanarte...
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2010s Abstract Still-life Prints

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Archival Paper, Cotton, Giclée

Still Life - Original Lithograph by Emmanuel Poirier - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Still Life is an original lithograph on ivory paper realized in 1950s by Emanuel Poirier. Signed on the lower left. Edition " E.A." (artist proof). T...
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1950s Modern Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Three Fishes
Located in Bournemouth, Dorset
ROBINSON , Geoffrey (b.1945) Three Fishes c.2011 Silkscreen Print 35.0 × 56.0 cm 13 4/5 × 22 in Geoffrey Robinson trained at Bournemouth College of Art...
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2010s Abstract Geometric Still-life Prints

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Screen

Avocado and Tomato Vine Diptych
Located in Deddington, GB
Avocado and Tomato Vine Diptych Overall Size cm : H140 x W100 Avocado. A beautiful CYMK silk screen print by Gavin Dobson. Based on an original gouache painting of the breakfast cl...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Paper, Screen

Python Sebae (African Rock Python Skull)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Python is a hand-pulled mezzotint in an edition of 25. This is #7/25. Jacob Crook was born in St. Louis, MO in 1985. Crook works primarily in the intagli...
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2010s American Modern Still-life Prints

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Mezzotint

Anri Sala, Cactus Score, Limited Edition, Botanical, Print, Art, Still Life
By Anri Sala
Located in Zug, CH
Anri Sala Cactus Score, 2011 Lithograph Edition of 110 45,5 x 60 cm (17.9 x 23.6 in), unframed In mint condition Blind-stamp on the front, signed and numbered on certificate of authenticity PLEASE NOTE: Edition numbers could vary from the one shown in the pictures. The pictures shown are only for illustrative reasons, the piece is offered unframed. Anri Sala was inspired by the punk song “Should I Stay or Should I Go?” to make his video ‘Le Clash’. The name of the video is that of the British group, The Clash who wrote the cult tune which hit the charts in 1981. The film takes place next to a modernist building. In the video, the melody of this hit song emerges from a music box and a barrel organ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

MIGHTY TREE II Signed Lithograph, Realistic Tree Drawing, Surrealist Style
Located in Union City, NJ
MIGHTY TREE II is an original limited edition lithograph(not a photo reproduction or digital print) using traditional hand lithography techniques on archival Arches buff colored paper, 100% acid free. MIGHTY TREE II is a realistic tree drawing expressed as a three panel, horizontally placed composition printed in dark brown gray and pale green ink from a hand drawn lithography stone. The tree is meticulously drawn using highly detailed pencil markings which create the intricate foliage crown, massive trunk, and multi-fingered roots. MIGHTY TREE II is truly an imaginative, surrealist style triptych drawing of an uprooted age-old tree existing from another time. Superb quality, hand crafted original lithograph, very fine impression. Print size - 20.5 x 30 inches, unframed, very good condition, light handling, printer registration pin holes on left and right margin, pencil signed by Hanna Kay...
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1970s Surrealist Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

The Drape - Vintage Offset Print after Renato Guttuso - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
The Drape is a vintage offset realized after a drawing by Renato Guttuso, in 1980s. The picture is in very good conditions, hand-signed by the artist on the lower margin. Image Dim...
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1980s Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Offset

"Back to the Sea" - Intaglio Print
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful and evocative abstracted dry point etching of the sea, a maddox. random fishing buoys and crab claw titled "Back to the Sea by Tomoya Uchida (Japanese, b. 1947). Presented in new custom cut mat. Unframed. Image size: 9"H x 15"W Titled "Back to the Sea" along the bottom edge. Signed and dated "T. Uchida '89" in the lower right corner. Presented in a new custom-cut mat with foam core backing. Tomoya Uchida (Japanese, b. 1947) was born in Tsuyama City in the Okayama prefecture in Japan. He graduated from Doshisha University, Kyoto, in 1970, and went on to become the artist-in-residence at the KALA Institute of Prints in Berkeley, CA, in 1989. He then moved to Australia, where he studied under Prof. Jorg Schmeisser...
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1980s Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Paper, Ink, Drypoint

Flowers - Original Ink Drawing by Robert Naly - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Flowers is an original Contemporary artwork realized in the half of the 20th Century by Robert Naly (1900 - 1983). Original ink drawing. Hand-signed. Good conditions except for ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Still-life Prints

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Ink

My Beloved Photography Print Limited edition
Located in Slovak Republic, SK
Inspired by F.X. Messerschmidt, hope to give some ideas for thoughts, print, limited of 15.
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Still-life Prints

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Digital, Black and White

Ruby, Framed Pop Art Silkscreen by Richard Bernstein
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Richard Bernstein Title: Ruby Year: 1978 Medium: Silkscreen in Colors, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 200, AP 30 Paper Size: 26 x 30.5 inches Frame Size: 32.5 x 36.5 ...
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1970s Pop Art Still-life Prints

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Screen

Empresses; Theodora H10-3
Located in ZEIST, UT
Damien Hirst-Empresses; Theodora H10-3 The Empresses serie Laminated Giclée print on aluminium composite, screen printed with glitter Limited edition of 3315 Signed and numbered on t...
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2010s Modern Still-life Prints

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Laminate, Digital

L' aveille
Located in Central & Western District, HK
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) L’ AVEILLE (L’ ABEILLE) (SEE B. 349; BA. 596) From the collection of Marina Picasso. Aquatint and drypoint, 1936 from ‘Picasso Eaux-fortes originales pour l...
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20th Century Old Masters Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Shoe Box (D)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Shoe Box (D) Lithograph printed on BFK Rives Signed, dated, titled and numbered in pencil (see photos) From: Shoe Box-Exotic (Sculpture and seven original li...
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1960s Pop Art Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Excessive
Located in New York, NY
THIS PIECE IS AVAILABLE FRAMED. Please reach out to the gallery for additional information. ABOUT THIS PIECE: Social concern, responsibility and the notion that provocative issue...
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2010s Still-life Prints

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Plexiglass

June Blossoms-Poster. 1942 New York Graphic Society, Ltd. Printed in USA.
Located in Clinton Township, MI
J.M. VAN NIKKELEN (Dutch, 1680-1749) Poster 25 x 20 in. Unframed Copyright 1942 New York Graphic Society, Ltd. Printed in USA. Good/Fair Condition-signs of wear (i.e. discoloration...
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1940s Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Still Life - Lithograph by Gino Severini - 1964/1965
Located in Roma, IT
Still life is an original modern artwork realizeb by Gino Severini in 1964/65. Original LIthograph in 10 colors. Hand signed and numbered on the lower margin. Edition of II/XV. R...
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1960s Futurist Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Eclipse
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Large botanical print of sunflowers by Trevor Southey. Beautiful blues and yellow predominate in this large print, which also includes some vers...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Agaricus Alutaceus, Leuba antique mushroom fungi food chromolithograph print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'1-4 Agaricus Alutaceus 5-7 Agaricus Emeticus' Antique Swiss mushroom / fungi chromolithograph, lithographed by H Furrer after Fritz Leuba. The print is titled with the scientific n...
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Late 19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Mannequin No 1, by Francois Houtin
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Signed, titled and numbered in pencil, from the edition of 40. Surrrealistic, imaginary character with flowing robes. François Houtin was born in Crao...
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1970s Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Etching

Marc Balakjian (1940-2017) - Signed 1983 Mezzotint, Fabric Study
Located in Corsham, GB
A striking mezzotint by printmaker Marc Balakjian showing a detailed cross section of fabric with eyelets. This mezzotint is typical of Balakjian's photo-realist style, displaying hi...
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20th Century Still-life Prints

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Mezzotint

Heinrich Ulrich after Paul Mair, Guard of Emperor Rudolph, Soldier, Landsknecht
Located in Greven, DE
Heinrich Ulrich (aka Heinrich Ullrich) (fl.1567–1621) “Soldier with Hellebarde”, 1598, out of the series, “The Guard of Emperor Rudolph” (aka “Old German Soldiers...
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16th Century Renaissance Still-life Prints

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Engraving

Still Life - Original Lithograph by Antonio Fomez - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Still Life is an original colored lithograph realized by Antonio Fomez between 1950 and 1974 . Hand-signed in pencil on the lower right. Numbered, edition of 99 prints, (handwritten...
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Mid-20th Century Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Fresh Blooms, Vicky Oldfield, Contemporary still life art, Landscape art
Located in Deddington, GB
Fresh Blooms by Vicky Oldfield Hand signed by the artist Limited Edition Collograph Print Edition of 30 Image Size: H 19.5cm x W 15.5cm Sheet Size: H 35.5cm x W 30.5cm x D 0.1cm Sol...
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21st Century and Contemporary Art Deco Still-life Prints

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Paper, Ink

Agaricus Campestris, Leuba antique mushroom fungi food chromolithograph print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Agaricus Campestris' Antique Swiss mushroom / fungi chromolithograph, lithographed by H Furrer after Fritz Leuba. The print is titled with the scientific na...
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Late 19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Summer Flowers, still life, floral art, limited edition print, Vicky Oldfield
Located in Deddington, GB
Vicky Oldfield. Summer Flowers- printed on Somerset paper using oil based inks, collage and watercolour, Signed in pencil on bottom right, In an edition of 20. This beautiful work a...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Paper, Ink, Watercolor

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

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Engraving, Lithograph

(There's A Place) Pensao Amor, Lisbon, Johnny Bull, Limited Edition Print, Bar
Located in Deddington, GB
(There’s A Place) Pensao Amor, Lisbon [2021] limited edition Digital on 315gsm etching paper Edition of 200 Image size: H:50 cm x W:50 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:60 cm x W:60 cm x D:0.1cm Sold Unframed Please note that insitu images are purely an indication of how a piece may look I think the name suggests that this cosy little bar served a slightly more risqué purpose once upon a time. Johnny Bull...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Paper, Digital

Cover for Derrière Le Miroir - Lithograph After George Braque - 1963
Located in Roma, IT
Derrière Le Miroir is a lithograph realized after George Braque in 1963, cover for Derrière Le Miroir no.138, 'Papiers collés 1912-1914' The description is on the lower in French an...
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1960s Cubist Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

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

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Paint, Screen, Stencil

Boston Modernist Color Etching Smoking Pipe Aaron Fink Pop Art Print Americana
Located in Surfside, FL
Aaron Fink (American, b. 1955) Etching on paper titled "Untitled (Colored Pipe)," Depicting an abstracted pipe with bright pink smoke floating from the bowl. Hand signed in pencil and dated 1987 along the lower right; numbered 25/50 along the lower left. Provenance: Distinguished corporate collection, Minnesota. Unframed; 22.5 X 30 inches Born in Boston, Fink received his BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art and his MFA from the Yale University School of Art. His work has been exhibited widely throughout the U.S., Europe, Japan and Australia. He has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Muskegon Museum of Art, Michigan, the Rockford Art Museum, Illinois, and Colorado State University, Fort Collins. In 2002 a monograph on Fink’s work, Out of the Ordinary, was published, with text by Eleanor Heartney. In 1983 Fink met the collector John Powers...
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1980s Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Etching

Tempio d'Amore
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Signed, titled and numbered by the artist, edition of 50. Imaginary topiary and garden scenes, with incredibly fine line work in the etching in this image of a suspended garden. Others in this series are available. François Houtin was born in Craon en Mayenne, France in 1950. He has lived and worked in Paris since 1971. He was trained as a landscape architect, and worked on such prominent projects as the renovation of the Jardin des Tuilleries in 1991. It wasn't until 1973 that he learned printmaking from Jean Delpech, and by 1979 he had become a full-time artist known for his highly detailed...
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1970s Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Etching

Morchella Conica, Leuba antique mushroom fungi morel chromolithograph print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Morchella Conica' Antique Swiss mushroom / fungi chromolithograph, lithographed by H Furrer after Fritz Leuba. The print is titled with the scientific name...
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Late 19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Kanovitz Andre champagne: vintage 1970s wood grain still life pop art style
Located in New York, NY
This richly-hued screenprint depicts the ripped-open box packaging for Andre Champagne Cellars. On the side of the box is printed "Cold Duck," referri...
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Late 20th Century Realist Still-life Prints

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Screen

Flowers in the Moonlight, Lithograph by Lebadang
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lebadang, Vietnamese (1922 - 2015) Title: Flowers in Moonlight Year: circa 1975 Medium: Lithograph, signed in pencil Edition: Epreuve d'Artiste Size: 25.25 x 19.5 in. (64.14 ...
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1970s Modern Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

White Lily - Minimalist Pop Art Screenprint
Located in Soquel, CA
Bold black and white print by David Mar (American, 20th Century). A white lily is formed from the negative space of the print. Artist's chop in the lower left corner. Titled, numbe...
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1990s Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Ink, Laid Paper

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

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Mezzotint

"Signs of the Times" LOCATION / AT 40x40" on Canvas
Located in Southampton, NY
The paintings of Robin Morris are her observations of life, stylized, playful, and yet challenging to the viewer. Her emotions are hidden beneath layers of color and pattern. Stepping into the public eye in 1982, with the publication of her first lithograph, "The Couple". The fifty editions that followed, firmly established her in the artistic community and enhanced her broad-based collector appeal. This print on canvas is a particularly rare image. It is numbered 11 of 295 images, but only 3 were ever created of this 40x40" image on canvas. One print went to the artist Robin Morris, One went to us at ARDT gallery...
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2010s Pop Art Still-life Prints

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Canvas, Archival Ink

Blue Hydrangea, oversize lithograph, classical architectural elements
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Blue Hydrangea - image bled to plate size ~ 39 x 29 - printed on 100% cotton rag - edition 3/5 Architectural elements
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Early 2000s American Modern Still-life Prints

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Lithograph

La Nappe Rose (The Pink Tablecloth) /// Impressionist Henri Le Sidaner Etching
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Henri Le Sidaner (French, 1862-1939) Title: "La Nappe Rose (The Pink Tablecloth)" Portfolio: Henri Le Sidaner (Camille Mauclair) *Issued unsign...
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1920s Post-Impressionist Still-life Prints

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Intaglio, Drypoint, Etching

Kerry Day, Swiss Cheese Plant, Limited Edition Print, Floral Art, Bright Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Kerry Day Swiss Cheese Limited Edition 7 Layered Linocut Print Edition of 10 Image Size: H 30.4cm x W 30.5cm Sheet Size: H 43cm x W 42cm x D 0.1cm Sold Un...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Still-life Prints

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Paper, Linocut

"Nature Morte a la Pipe" - Still Life from "Dix Reproductions 1933"
Located in Soquel, CA
Still life print realized after George Braque's 1931 painting, with dry stamp of editor in the lower-left ("JB" - Jenne Boucher, Paris). From the folio "Dix Reproductions" printed in...
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1930s Cubist Still-life Prints

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Paper, Ink

After Clara Pope - Pair Of 20th Century Digital Print, Camellia
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine pair of well presented digital prints from the lithographs by Weddell after Clara Pope's original 18th Century paintings. The pair have been identically presented in wash line...
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21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Digital

Purple magnolia 3 - 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...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Paper, Drypoint, Etching

Boletus Aurantiacus, Leuba antique mushroom fungi chromolithograph print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Boletus Aurantiacus' Antique Swiss mushroom / fungi chromolithograph, lithographed by H Furrer after Fritz Leuba. The print is titled with the scientific na...
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Late 19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Midnight Observatory, Landscape Art, Architectural Art, London Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Midnight Observatory [2012] limited_edition etching and aquatint Edition number 69 Image size: H:20 cm x W:13.5 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:37.5 cm x W:27.5 cm x D:.03cm Sold Unframed Please note that insitu images are purely an indication of how a piece may look An etching and aquatint depicting the Royal Observatory at midnight in winter, printed from a copper plate in deep blue. This view of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich Park as seen from One Tree hill...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Copper

"The Roses are Coming, " Intaglio Artist Proof VIII by Fred Reichman
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"The Roses are Coming" is an intaglio print AP. VIII from an edition of 100. It is signed lower right by the artist Fred Reichman. It depicts sticks and ...
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1980s Still-life Prints

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Intaglio

Blue Vase, Framed Lithograph by Peter Max
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Peter Max Title: Blue Vase Year: 1981 Medium: Lithograph on Somerset, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 165 Image Size: 25 x 19 inches Size: 30.5 in. x 24 in. (77.47 cm...
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1980s Pop Art Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Delicatessen Trays - Americana Nostalgia Pop Art Black and White
Located in London, GB
WAYNE THIEBAUD b. 1920-2021 Mesa, Arizona 1920-2021 Sacramento, California (American) Title: Delicatessen Trays, 1965 Technique: Original Hand Signed, Dated and Numbered Etching an...
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1960s Pop Art Still-life Prints

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Etching, Aquatint

Flowering Air Plant: A 19th Century Hand-colored Engraving by William Curtis
Located in Alamo, CA
This early 19th century hand-colored double fold-out botanical engraving is entitled "Pendulous-flowered Bryophyllum", plate 1409, published in London in 1809 in William Curtis’s 'The Botanical Magazine, or Flower-Garden Displayed'. Bryophyllum pinnatum, also known as the air plant...
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Early 1800s Naturalistic Still-life Prints

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Engraving

Viento 09
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THIS ARTIST: Ezequiel Montero Swinnen is a visual artist from La Pampa, Argentina. His work is based across photography, video and installation. His fav...
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2010s Still-life Prints

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Photographic 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.

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