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Still-life Prints For Sale
Style: Modern
Style: Art Deco
50x40 " Andy Warhol" Photomosaic Pop Fine Art Photography Photograph
By Destro
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.
Archival photographic paper
Unsigned
Framing optio...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
"Ali" Muhammad Ali Portrait 60x40 Photomosaic Photography Pop Art Signed
By Destro
Located in Los Angeles, CA
"Ali" 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 im...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
"60x48" FRIDA KAHLO Photomosaic Pop Art Archival Fine Art Photography Print
By Destro
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Frida 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...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
Calder, 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° 141, published by Aimé Maeg...
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1960s Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
64x48 "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
Matisse, Série G, var. 6 (Duthuit 9), Dessins, Thèmes et variations (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin pur fil paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Henri Matisse, Dessins, Thèmes et Variations, 19...
Category
1940s Modern 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
After Pablo Picasso - Cubism - Pochoir
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
After Pablo Picasso - Cubism - Pochoir
Dimensions: 48.5 x 36 cm
1962
Edition of 260
Daniel Jacomet, LEDA, Editions d'Art
Pablo Picasso
Picasso is not just a man and his work. Picas...
Category
1960s Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
50x40 Jean Michel Basquiat PHOTOMOSAIC Street Pop Art Archival Photography Print
By Destro
Located in Los Angeles, CA
"Basquiat"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 smalle...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
40x60 Journey "ESCAPE" Cassette Photography Pop Art Unsinged
By Destro
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is new release in the much anticipated series "The Music" by pop Artists Destro
These iconic tapes have become more than just timeless music. They encapsulate an era instantly...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
"Air Jordan" 40x50 Nike Michael Jordan, Sneakers, Photography Fine Art Signed
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
50x40 " Marilyn Monroe" Photomosaic Pop Fine Art Photography Photograph
By Destro
Located in Los Angeles, CA
"Marilyn" is a photomosaic artwork by Destro.
Destro has created large prints which are made up of many hundreds of smaller images.
Archival photographic paper
Unsigned
Framing op...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
50x40 " Marilyn Monroe" Photomosaic Pop Fine Art Photography Photograph
By Destro
Located in Los Angeles, CA
"Marilyn" is a photomosaic artwork by Destro.
Destro has created large prints which are made up of many hundreds of smaller images.
Archival photographic paper
Signed edition of 2...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
Matisse, Série H, var. 1 (Duthuit 9), Dessins, Thèmes et variations (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin pur fil paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Henri Matisse, Dessins, Thèmes et Variations, 19...
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1940s Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Un Coin de Cuisine - Etching by Charles Meryon - 1870s
Located in Roma, IT
Un Coin de Cuisine is an artwork realized by Charles Meryon in the 1870s.
Etching.
Image size:24x31.
Good conditions.
Realized for the "Société des Aquafortistes. Born on the i...
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1870s Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Etching
Telephone (The iPhone of the early 20th Century)
Located in New Orleans, LA
This is an artist's proof (xv/xv) of an early telephone that is signed and numbered by the artist in pencil
Schkolnyk was born in Paris, France in 195...
Category
1980s American Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Matisse, Nuit De Noël (Duthuit 139), Verve: Revue Artistique (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin du Marais paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire, Vol. IX, N° 35-36...
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1950s Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
48x64 " Hollywood Sign" Photomosaic Pop Fine Art Photography Unsigned
By Destro
Located in Los Angeles, CA
"Hollywood Sign" is a photomosaic artwork by Destro.
This image is made up of 100's of smaller images of Hollywood related imagery.
Archival photographic paper
Framing options ava...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
R2D2 60x45 Star Wars, Photography Jedi, Photograph Toys, Movie Empire Pop Art
By Destro
Located in Los Angeles, CA
R2D2 from the original Kenner release of the Star Wars toys in May of 1977
This is pre release is the first release in the much anticipated series "The Toys"
These iconic figures hav...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
30x50 Guns N' Roses Appetite for Destruction Photography Cassette Tape Unsigned
By Destro
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A contemporary photograph of Guns N' Roses iconic "Appetite for Destruction" cassette tape.
This is s the first release in the much anticipated series "The Music" by pop Artists Dest...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
"50x40" FRIDA KAHLO Photomosaic Pop Art Archival Fine Art Photography Signed
By Destro
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Frida 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...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
48x36 " Marilyn Monroe" Photomosaic Pop Fine Art Exhibition Print
By Destro
Located in Los Angeles, CA
"Marilyn" is a photomosaic artwork by Destro.
Exhibition Poster from series "The ICONS" The first release in a series mosaic works called "Icons".
Destro has created large prints ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
64x48 "Dr Dre The Chronic Cassette" Photomosaic Pop Art Photography Unsigned
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
Framing options a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
Original Caribbean - South America Cruise vintage travel poster
By David Klein
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...
Category
1970s American Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Offset
'Fruit Piece' — American Modernism, Woman Artist
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Pamela Bianco, 'Fruit Piece', lithograph, c. 1925. Signed and titled in pencil. Signed in the stone, lower left. Annotated 'No. 8' in pencil, upper right...
Category
1920s American Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
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...
Category
1950s Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
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...
Category
1950s Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"Ali vs Frazier" Muhammad Ali Portrait 40x60 Photomosaic Pop Art Unsigned
By Destro
Located in Los Angeles, CA
"Ali vs Frazer" 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 ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
Le Bouquet, Cubist Lithograph after Pablo Picasso
Located in Long Island City, NY
A lithograph from the Marina Picasso Estate Collection after the Pablo Picasso painting "Le Bouquet". The original painting was completed in 1958. In the 1...
Category
1980s Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
AC DC BACK IN BLACK 40x60 Photography Photograph Cassette Tape Fine Art Print
By Destro
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A contemporary photograph of an AC/DC - Back In Black cassette tape.
"They encapsulate an era instantly transporting the viewer to another time." - Destro
Printed on Archival Paper...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
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
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, C Print, Digital, Giclée, Archiva...
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...
Category
1980s Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
40x60 "Back to the Future" VHS Photo Photography Pop Art Fine Art Print Signed
By Destro
Located in Los Angeles, CA
"The VHS" by pop Artist Destro.
We all remember those iconic nights at the video store.
Pop artist DESTRO once again encapsulates one of our favorite past times in a fine art con...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
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
Materials
Woodcut
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...
Category
1970s Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Etching
Matisse, Série M, var. 1 (Duthuit 9), Dessins, Thèmes et variations (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin pur fil paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Henri Matisse, Dessins, Thèmes et Variations, 19...
Category
1940s Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Tool drypoint: Weed puller by Jim Dine, black and white tool still life sketch
By Jim Dine
Located in New York, NY
Jim Dine drew the plate for this image in the same period as his “Thirty Bones of My Body” 1972 portfolio of drypoint tool images. Crisbrook paper (30 x 22 in. / 76.2 x 56 cm.) and p...
Category
1970s Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Drypoint
ROCKY 36x48 Sylvester Stallone Photomosaic Photography Pop Art Aluminum Print
By Destro
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...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
48x36 "Andy Warhol" Photomosaic Pop Fine Art Exhibition Print
By Destro
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
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
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...
Category
1960s Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Still life, Fruits and wine - Lithograph, 1971
By Paul Cézanne
Located in Paris, IDF
Paul Cezanne
Still life, Fruits and wine, 1971
Lithograph and stencil (Jacomet workshop)
Unsigned
Numbered / 225
On paper applied on Arches vellum 41.5 x 53.5 cm (c. 16.5 x 21 in)
...
Category
1970s Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
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...
Category
1870s Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Etching
"50X40" BOB MARLEY Photomosaic Pop Art Archival Fine Art Photography Print
By Destro
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...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
AC DC BACK IN BLACK 30x50 Photography Photograph Cassette Tape Fine Art Print
By Destro
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...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
ROCKY 36x48 Sylvester Stallone Photomosaic Photography Pop Art Print
By Destro
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...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
Vintage Richard Hamilton Poster Davison Art Center 1973 (The Critic Laughs 1973)
Located in New York, NY
This poster was produced in 1973 to promote a Richard Hamilton exhibition at the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, USA. The poster reproduces The cri...
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1970s Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Offset
Tool Drypoint: Wrench by Jim Dine, black and white tool still life sketch
By Jim Dine
Located in New York, NY
Jim Dine drew the plate for this image in the same period as his “Thirty Bones of My Body” 1972 portfolio of drypoint tool images. Crisbrook paper (30 x 22 in. / 76.2 x 56 cm.) and p...
Category
1970s Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Drypoint
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...
Category
1910s Art Deco Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
![Kaller's [Top Hat and Gloves on Chair].](https://a.1stdibscdn.com/archivesE/upload/a_2922/1479938131715/KallersHutModepost_master.jpg?width=240 "gubellini hat")
Snail in a Bowl (Artist Proof inscribed to Fritz Eichenberg)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Leonard Merchant's mezzotint, "Snail in Cup" is inscribed for fellow artist, Fritz Eichenberg.
While a student at the Central School for Arts and Crafts in London, a young Leonard Marchant found an engraving rocker in a cupboard and proceeded to turn himself into a master of the painstaking art of mezzotinting.
Marchant, who has died in Shrewsbury aged 70, grew up in Simonstown, the Royal Navy's enclave in South Africa. Though his first job was as a parliamentary messenger, he taught himself to paint and, aged 19, was given a one-man show in Cape Town. Fired by this success, he left for England to study painting and, he claimed, to escape the stifling home atmosphere created by his Catholic mother and aunts. (His father was killed in the second world war.) Without contacts in London, he phoned Jacob Epstein, whose recommendation resulted in a grant to study briefly at the Central School. It was later, when studying full-time at the Central, that he saw the mezzotints of the Japanese master, Yozo Hamaguchi, in a London gallery. He was hooked.
Creating a mezzotint is tedious in the extreme. The copper plate must first be prepared with a "rocker" which roughens the surface. A plate may be "rocked" 30 or 40 times. The rough texture is then reduced with a burnisher and a scraper, allowing the print a range of tones from velvety black through the greys to white. Marchant's plates could be months in the making. But the technical demands were the least of his worries. In its 18th- and 19th-century heyday, mezzotint was solely a reproductive medium, for copying masters such as Reynolds and Turner. The development of photography rendered it unfashionable, and by the 1960s the technique, known as la manière anglaise, was a bygone medium.
Marchant, by now a teacher in printmaking at the Central, began to create original mezzotints with a colleague, Radavan Kraguly. A perfectionist, he seemed to revel in the straitjacket procedure. Perhaps it was the metaphor of bringing darkness out of light that appealed to this straight-talking, sometimes sombre, man, who would suddenly relax and light up like a gleaming hue on one of his prints. His work was of squares and triangles with the occasional cat, black and ominous, and carefully arranged still lifes, featuring plants, a seed pod, a pot he might have bought at auction to celebrate the sale of a print.
There were one-man shows, notably at the Bankside Gallery. He sold well at the Royal Academy summer exhibition, was a Florence Biennale prizewinner, spent a fellowship year at the British School in Rome, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers.
But making mezzotints was not a paying job. Marchant and his South African wife...
Category
1980s Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Egyptian Goddess with Flower, Portraits Lithograph by Gina Lombardi Bratter
Located in Long Island City, NY
Gina Lombardi Bratter, American - Egyptian Goddess with Flower, Year: 1979, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: AP 30, Size: ...
Category
1970s Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Picasso, Composition (Cramer 58; Mourlot 189), Une visite a Vallauris (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin de d'Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition, with bifolds, as issued. Notes: From the volume, Une visite a Vallauris, 1950. Published by...
Category
1950s Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Calder, Composition, 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° 201, published by Aimé Maeght, Éditeur, Paris; printed ...
Category
1970s Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Rolex Daytona 30x30 6263 Paul Newman Photomosaic Photography Fine Art
By Destro
Located in Los Angeles, CA
"Newman" 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 o...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
Braque, Trois oiseaux sur fond violet, 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° 144-145-146, 1964. Published by Aimé Maeght, Éditeur, P...
Category
1960s Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Bazaine, Composition, Derrière le miroir (after)
By Jean Bazaine
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition, with quadfold, as issued. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 55-56, 1953. Published by Aim...
Category
1950s Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Trim Fit (Deconstructed Singer machine gives both steel and silk equal weight)
By Carol Wax
Located in New Orleans, LA
Carol Wax deconstructs a Singer sewing machine in this mezzotint created in an edition of 75. The image gives equal weight to the steel of the machine and the silk of the fabric. It...
Category
Early 2000s American Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Purple Egg, Modern Lithograph by Karl Kasten
Located in Long Island City, NY
Karl Kasten, American (1916 - 2010) - Purple Egg, Year: 1968, Medium: Lithograph on Arches, signed, numbered and dated in pencil, Edition: 6/20, Size: 19 x 21.75 in. (48.26 x 55....
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1960s Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Stilleben mit Obstschale, Modern Screenprint after Max Oppenheimer
Located in Long Island City, NY
Max Oppenheimer, After, Austrian (1885 - 1954) - Stilleben mit Obstschale, Year: circa 1925, Medium: Screenprint, Edition: Test Print, Image Size: 8 x 11.25 inches, Size: 12.75 ...
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1920s Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
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.