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Still-life Prints For Sale
Brooklyn Heights - Bob Dylan
By Bob Dylan
Located in London, GB
Bob Dylan
Brooklyn Heights, 2016.
Giclée print on Hahnemühle 350gsm Museum etching paper.
Signed and numbered 142/295 in pencil
Published by Washington Green Fine Art in associatio...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Giclée
Cats (Pink)
By Ai Weiwei
Located in London, GB
Screen print on Saunders Waterford 300gsm paper
Hand-signed, dated, and numbered by the artist
45 x 62 cm
Edition 78 of 300
The print was editioned by master printer, Kip Gresham at The Print Studio, Cambridge for Kettle's Yard. It was made using an original drawing ‘cut’ into an acrylic sheet. The image is then reversed when printed.
Description from the publisher:
"Drawing has been fundamental to Ai Weiwei’s artistic practice from an early age. He also has a longstanding love of cats, and they appear frequently in the artist’s social media posts. Many cats used to roam his studio in Beijing. As part of the Kettle’s Yard exhibition, Ai’s ‘Cats wallpaper...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
Night and Day 3 (Single 8 x 8 inch monotype collage mounted on wood panel)
Located in Oakland, CA
This mini collage on wood panel were made using hand-printed botanical cyanotypes in blue and yellow. Their sides are painted gold.
Quite small, it measures just 8 x 8 inches x 3/4...
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2010s Minimalist Still-life Prints
Materials
Birch, Paper, Mixed Media, Panel, Monotype, Photogram
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
After the Party FS II.183 (Warhol estate stamped)
By Andy Warhol
Located in Aventura, FL
Screen print in colors on Arches 88 wove paper. Unsigned edition, lacking the pencil signature, but with the Estate of Andy Warhol and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts,...
Category
1970s Pop Art Still-life Prints
Materials
Paper, Screen
Winter, Modern Lithograph by Robert Kipniss
Located in Long Island City, NY
Robert Kipness was an American painter and printmaker who’s work focused on forms and a pronounced moodiness. This print is signed, numbered, dated, and...
Category
1980s American Impressionist Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Calendula Flowers: An 18th Century Hand-colored Botanical Engraving by B. Besler
Located in Alamo, CA
A hand-colored copper plate engraving depicting "Calendula prolifera; Calendula lutea flore pleno; Calendula lute medioruffa" flowers from Basilius Besler's landmark work, Hortus Eys...
Category
Early 18th Century Academic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving
"Air Jordan" 50x60 Nike Michael Jordan, Sneakers, Photography Fine Art Unsigned
By Destro
Located in Los Angeles, CA
"Air Jordan" 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 hundre...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
Magritte, Composition, Poèmes 1923-1958, Dix dessins de René Magritte (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
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
Composition, Derrière le miroir
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 15 x 22 inches, with centerfold, as issued. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Derrière le miroir, N° 69-7...
Category
1950s Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
la fleur
Located in CANNES, FR
Fernand Leger ( 1881 -1955 )
" La Fleur " .1952 .
Lithograph in colors on wove paper
Framed with museal glass :
Specially created by the artist in 1952 for the XXe Siècle Cahiers d...
Category
1950s Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Archival Paper
Iris on Beige, Photorealist Screenprint on Paper by Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Photorealist flower screenprint by American artist Lowell Blair Nesbitt, signed and numbered in pencil.
Iris on Beige
Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933–1993)
Date: Circa 1980
Scr...
Category
1980s Photorealist Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
Still Life - Offset Print after Giorgio Morandi - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Still Life is a Photolithograph print, reproducing the original watercolor by Giorgio Morandi created in 1932.
The signature by the artist is perfectly reproduced on the plate and d...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Offset
Spotted Dead Nettle, English antique flower botanical chromolithograph, 1895
By Frederick William Hulme
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Spotted Dead Nettle'
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 o...
Category
Late 19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Blind Fiddler, English antique engraving after Sir David Wilkie
By Sir David Wilkie
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'The Blind Fiddler'
Engraving by John Burnet after Sir David Wilkie RA (1785-1841)
India-laid. Proof before letters. 'Second Plate' printed under e...
Category
Early 19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving
The Most Distant Visible Part of the Sea, Pop Art Silkscreen by Rauschenberg
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Robert Rauschenberg, American (1925 - 2008)
Title: The Most Distant Visible Part of the Sea
Year: 1979
Medium: Lithograph and Screenprint, Signed and numbered in pencil
Editi...
Category
1970s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Screen
Chrysanthemum: An 18th Century Hand-colored Botanical Engraving by J. Weinmann
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an original antique hand-colored botanical mezzotint and line engraving of flowering Chrysanthemum matricaria plants. It is entitled "A. Chrysanthemum Matricarice Folus Flore...
Category
Mid-18th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving, Mezzotint
fractal-ssi-1c
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Medium: Carborundum, intaglio
Year: 2018
Image Size: 12 x 12 inches
Paper size: 24 x 22 inches
Edition Size: 25
Signed and numbered by the artist.
Tachibana’s prints take their ins...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
un couple pensif
Located in Belgrade, MT
This woodcut black and white is part of my private collection. It is in very good condition. It is artists signed in the lower right and numbered o the left. Atelier Othon-Friesz
Category
Early 20th Century Fauvist Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Woodcut
"Wayne Thiebaud: Survey 1947-1976" Oakland Museum Show Poster
By (After) Wayne Thiebaud
Located in Soquel, CA
"Wayne Thiebaud: Survey 1947-1976" Show Poster from the Oakland Museum 1976-1977
Silkscreen poster from the Oakland Museum 1976-1977 show "Wayne Thiebaud: Survey 1947-1976" with a printing of an original drawing (Six Candied Apples...
Category
1970s American Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Paper, Screen
FLOWER BLOSSOMS, LIGHT BLUE VASE Signed Lithograph, Magenta, Pink, Red, Green
By Walasse Ting
Located in Union City, NJ
FLOWER BLOSSOMS, LIGHT BLUE VASE is an original hand drawn lithograph by the renowned Chinese born artist Walasse Ting (DING XIONGQUAN, Chinese, 1929-2010) printed on archival Somers...
Category
1980s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Still life, Pale Roses in a vase - Lithograph, 1971
By Paul Cézanne
Located in Paris, IDF
Paul Cezanne
Still life, Roses in a vase, 1971
Lithograph and stencil (Jacomet workshop)
Unsigned
Numbered / 225
On paper applied on Arches vellum 53.5 x 41.5 cm (c. 21 x 16.5 in)
...
Category
1970s Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
"February Bouquet" from 'The Twelve Months of Flowers' series by Robert Furber
By Robert Furber
Located in Alamo, CA
This framed hand-colored engraving entitled "February Bouquet" is from 'The Twelve Months of Flowers' by Henry Furber, published in London in 1730 by Robert Sayer and John King. Each of the twelve hand-colored engravings in the book were produced from paintings by Pieter Casteels (1684-1749) and engraved by Henry Fletcher (1710-1753). The book featured twelve detailed engravings of seasonal plants in bloom in the form of a bouquet. More than 400 different species of flowering plants were included with each plant numbered and accompanied by a list of the corresponding species names. Thirty-five species of flowers are depicted in this engraving in a bouquet sitting in an ornate attractive bowl. A few of the flowers lie loose on a table. The flower species are listed in a table in the lower portion of the plate, along with the month that these flowers are in bloom.
This colorful print is presented in a gold-colored wood frame with a cream-colored double mat with a heather green inner mat. The frame measures 23.5" High, 19" wide and 1.63" deep. There are a few small frame abrasions, but the print is in very good condition.
Robert Furber...
Category
Mid-18th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving
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
Truth
By Marc Dennis
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THE ARTIST: Marc Dennis is an American artist renowned for his paintings of subtly staged and slightly voyeuristic images of contemporary American culture. Interested in the tr...
Category
2010s Still-life Prints
Materials
Photographic Paper
'Flowers and Ko-Imari' — Taisho/Showa Shin Hanga Woodblock Print
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Masami Iwata, 'Flowers and Ko-Imari', color woodblock print, c. 1960, edition 250. Signed, and with the artist’s seal, lower right. A superb, painterly impression, with fresh colors,...
Category
1960s Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Woodcut
60x40 "Dr Dre The Chronic Cassette" Photomosaic Pop Art Photography Signed
By Destro
Located in Los Angeles, CA
"Dr Dre The Chronic Cassette" is a photomosaic artwork by Destro.
This image is made up of 100's of smaller images of Dr Dre imagery.
Archival photographic paper
Signed edition of...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
Andy Warhol FLOWERS Hand-Colored Screenprint
By Andy Warhol
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Artist/Designer; Manufacturer: Andy Warhol (American, 1928-1987)
Marking(s); notes: signed; ed. 236/250; 1974
Materials: screenprint hand-colored with Dr. Martin's aniline watercolor...
Category
1970s Pop Art Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
Flowering Iris & Other Botanicals: Framed 17th C. Besler Hand-colored Engraving
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a hand-colored copper-plate engraving entitled "I. Spatula foetida - II. Caucalis Dodonei - III. Cruciata", depicting three flowering plants, including an Iris, from Basilius Besler's landmark work, Hortus Eystettensis (Garden at Eichstatt), first published in 1613 in Eichstatt, Germany near Nuremberg and later in 1640 and 1713.
This beautiful hand-colored botanical engraving is presented in a gold-colored wood frame with a French mat...
Category
Mid-17th Century Academic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving
Le pot et la faucille, 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...
Category
1950s Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Eternity: Pompeii in the Shadow of Vesuvius
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This work, by Fidel Santos, depicts a Pompeiian fresco resplendent with lush fruit trees and avian life against a backdrop of idyllic hills. The vibrant c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Renaissance Still-life Prints
Materials
Plexiglass, Archival Ink
Magritte, Composition, Poèmes 1923-1958, Dix dessins de René Magritte (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
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
Large-Leaved Saxifrage, English antique flower botanical chromolithograph, 1895
By Frederick William Hulme
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Large-Leaved Saxifrage'
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 Professo...
Category
Late 19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Utopia
By Damien Hirst
Located in Bristol, GB
Inkjet, glaze and foil block on Hahnemuhle photo rag satin paper
Edition of 55
69 x 83 cm (27.2 x 32.7 in)
(87.6 x 102.3 cm / 34.5 x 40.3 in)
Signed and numbered on the front
Conditi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Digital
Picasso, Composition, Faunes et Flore d'Antibes (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and stencil on vélin pur chiffon d'Arches paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition; unframed. Notes: From the folio, Faunes et Flore d'Antibe...
Category
1960s Cubist Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
Unexpected Meetings from the Rilke Portfolio, Minimalist Lithograph by Ben Shahn
By Ben Shahn
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Ben Shahn, American (1898 - 1969)
Title: Unexpected Meetings from the Rilke Portfolio
Year: 1968
Medium: Lithograph on Arches, signed in the plate
Edition: 750
Size: 22.5 x 1...
Category
1960s Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Herman Miller Summer Picnic August 20, 1971 - Watermelon Screen Print
Located in Houston, TX
Original Herman Miller Summer Picnic screen printed lacquer ink and lacquer finish print. August 20, 1971 annual company picnic poster is a...
Category
1970s Pop Art Still-life Prints
Materials
Lacquer, Ink
Aldborough Anemones, English antique flower botanical chromolithograph, 1896
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Aldborough Anemones'
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
30x50 NOTORIOUS B.I.G. "LIFE AFTER DEATH" Cassette Photography Pop Art Signed
By Destro
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A contemporary photograph of a NOTORIOUS B.I.G. "LIFE AFTER DEATH" cassette tape.
This is s the first release in the much anticipated series "The Music" by pop Artists Destro
These ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
Moon Glow, by Yuji Hiratsuka
Located in Palm Springs, CA
By: Yuji Hiratsuka
Medium: Intaglio and Chine Colle
Year: 2023
Image Size: 18 x 12 inches
A celadon decorated Chinese vase with flowers, with a full moon and clouds in the backgroun...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint, Intaglio
Begonias, English antique flower botanical chromolithograph, 1896
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Seedling tuberous Rooted Begonias'
Antique English flower botanical chromolithograph.
Category
Late 19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Snowy Feverfew, English antique red flower botanical chromolithograph, 1895
By Frederick William Hulme
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Snowy Feverfew'
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
Besler Hand-colored Botanical Engraving of Flowering Tulip & Wild Garlic Plants
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a hand-colored copperplate engraving entitled "Tulipa viridiscoloris, Fritillaria iuncifolns, Allium Vrsinum" depicting flowering tulip, fritillary and wild garlic plants fro...
Category
Early 18th Century Academic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving
Dufy, Composition, Eaux-de-vie, Esprit de la fleur et du fruit (after)
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
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
Purple Irises on White
By Alex Katz
Located in New York, NY
Alex Katz
Purple Irises on White
2023
Archival pigment ink print, on Innova Etching Cotton Rag 315 gsm
24 x 30 inches (61 x 76 cm) unframed
Signed and numbered edition of 100
Alex K...
Category
2010s Pop Art Still-life Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
Trumpet Daffodils, English antique flower botanical chromolithograph, 1896
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Trumpet Daffodils and Poet's Narcissus'
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
Flora Italiana (Anenome Viola) - large format botanical still life photograph
Located in San Francisco, CA
Original large format still life photograph of purple anemone from Linda Rosewall's series "Flora Italiana", an intensely beautiful body of works exploring the botanical splendor of ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Giclée, Archival Pigment
Salvador Dali - Venus in Furs - Original Stamp-Signed Etching
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Original Etching
Stamp signed by Dali
Edition of 294 copies.
Paper : Arches vellum.
Dimensions : 16x12".
Catalogue Raisonné : Field 68-6 (p. 40-41).
Salvador Dal...
Category
1960s Surrealist Still-life Prints
Materials
Etching
Silver Dollar
Located in Greenwich, CT
Silver Dollar is a silver gelatin print on paper by Robert Mapplethorpe, titled, numbered, and dated verso. The print is signed and dated again on the back within his signature stamp...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Paper, Silver Gelatin
Peonies (from Flowers Portfolio)
By Alex Katz
Located in Calabasas, CA
Artist: Alex Katz
Title: Peonies (from Flowers Portfolio)
Year: 2021
Medium: Archival pigment ink on Innova Etching Cotton Rag 315 gsm fine art paper
Edition: 86/100; signed and num...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
The Exuberant Garden
By Marc Dennis
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THIS PIECE: Dennis is known for his hyper naturalistic, highly detailed and obsessively delineated paintings that explore the subversive potential of beauty and pleasure. Fresh...
Category
2010s Still-life Prints
Materials
Photographic Paper
40x60 NOTORIOUS B.I.G. "LIFE AFTER DEATH" Cassette Photography Pop Art by Destro
By Destro
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A contemporary photograph of a NOTORIOUS B.I.G. "LIFE AFTER DEATH" cassette tape.
This is s the first release in the much anticipated series "The Music" by pop Artists Destro
These ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
A Pale Angels Halo
Located in New York, NY
This lithograph, produced in an edition of 100, and signed and numbered by James Rosenquist, is offered by CLAMP in New York.
Category
1970s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Indian Leaves
Located in London, GB
Indian Leaves
Lithograph print on Japanese Gampi Torinoko paper
Limited edition of 500 (Roman) and 500 (Arabic)
23 x 76.3 cm
Stamp-signed and accompanied by a certificate of authenti...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
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...
Category
Mid-18th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving, Mezzotint
Léger, Composition, Mon ami Léger (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and stencil on vélin d'Arches paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition, with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From the album, Mon ami Léger par ...
Category
1950s Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
LeWitt, Composition, Ficciones (after)
By Sol LeWitt
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Silkscreen on vélin Saunders Waterford, St Cuthberts Mill paper. Paper Size: 8 x 7.625 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Ficciones, 1984...
Category
1980s Conceptual Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
Banana (original drawing on paper)
Located in Aventura, FL
Original colored crayons and pastel drawing on paper. Hand signed and dated on front by David Hockney. Artwork size 16.75 x 14inches. Frame size approx 27 x 24 inches. Provenance: Annely Juda Fine Art; Richard Gray Gallery.
Artwork in excellent condition. All reasonable offers will be considered.
About the Artist: David Hockney is one of the most influential British artists of the 20th century. Perhaps best known for his serial paintings of swimming pools, portraits of friends, and verdant landscapes, the artist’s oeuvre ranges from collaged photography and opera posters to Cubist-inspired abstractions and plein-air paintings of the English countryside. Often returning to a certain motif again and again, he probes the manifold ways one can see an image or a space. Hockney’s exploration of photography’s effect on painting and everyday life is evinced in his hallmark work A Bigger Splash (1967). “In art, new ways of seeing mean new ways of feeling; you can't divorce the two, as, we are now aware, you cannot have time without space and space without time,” he has explained. Born on July 9, 1937 in Bradford, United Kingdom, Hockney attended the Royal College of Art in London alongside R.B. Kitaj. At school, he studied under both Francis Bacon and Peter Blake, but also credits Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse for influencing his distinctive and varied style. In 1963, the artist traveled to Southern California for the first time and fell in love with the bright sunshine and easygoing lifestyle. Since then, he has alternated living and working between Yorkshire, United Kingdom, and Los Angeles, CA. In November 2018, his 1972 painting...
Category
1980s Pop Art Still-life Prints
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Pastel
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.