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Still-life Prints For Sale
Style: Modern
Style: Surrealist
Still Life in Red, Lithograph by Lebadang
By Hoi Lebadang
Located in Long Island City, NY
Still Life in Red
Lebadang, Vietnamese (1922–2015)
Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition of E.A.
Size: 19.5 x 25.5 in. (49.53 x 64.77 cm)
Category
1970s Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Waterlily Pool, Elaine Marshall, Limited Edition Animal Print, Handmade Prints
Located in Deddington, GB
Waterlily pool by Elaine Marshall [2012]
Signed by the artist
Etching and aquatint
Edition of 5
Image size: H:17 cm x W:20 cm
Complete Size of Unframed...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Paper, Etching, Aquatint
'Fruit Forms' — 1930s American Modernism
By Albert Heckman
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Albert Heckman, 'Fruit Forms', color lithograph, edition not stated, c. 1935. Signed and titled in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression, with fresh colo...
Category
1930s American Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Manfred Sillner "The Treasury of Regensburg" Etching c.1975
By Manfred Sillner
Located in San Francisco, CA
Surreal etching by noted German artist Manfred Sillner b.1937
This is a rare etching from 1975. Pencil signed and titled by the artist.
Titled "Treas...
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Still-life Prints
Materials
Etching
Henri Matisse (After) - Lithograph - Pumpkin and Flowers
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
after Henri MATISSE (1869-1954)
Lithograph after a drawing of 1941
Printed signature and date
Book plate from Aragon. Henri Matisse: Dessins, Thèmes et Variations : précédés de "...
Category
1940s Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
SURVIVOR TREE Signed Lithograph, Surreal Tree Drawing, Botanical Fantasy
By Hanna Kay
Located in Union City, NJ
SURVIVOR TREE is an original, hand drawn limited edition lithograph(not a photo reproduction or digital print) printed in khaki grey ink using traditional hand lithography techniques on white archival printmaking paper 100% acid free. SURVIVOR TREE is a botanical fantasy portrait depicting a meticulously drawn tree with roots clinging to a circular platform suspended in the air. SURVIVOR TREE is expressed with highly detailed pencil markings that create the intricate foliage crown, massive trunk, and multi-fingered roots. SURVIVOR TREE is truly an imaginative, surreal tree portrait drawing of a mysterious lone tree surviving in time and space .
Superb quality, hand crafted original lithograph, very fine impression.
Print size - 23 x 28.5 inches, unframed, excellent condition, pencil signed by Hanna Kay...
Category
1970s Surrealist Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Obi Wan Kenobi 50x60 Star Wars, Photography Pop Art, Photograph Toys, Movie 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
Resilience & A Splash of Resilience (Set of 2) (Ed. 4/50)
Located in Dallas, TX
Set of 2 Prints
Resilience & A Splash of Resilience
Includes two prints of the original oil painting by Drew Merritt.
Edition 4 of 50
Signed and numbered ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
Grapes
Located in New York, NY
A superb, richly-inked impression of this early, very scarce lithograph. Signed and dated in pencil, lower right.
Category
1920s American Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Candle Light (a serene sacred shrine for decency and peace with Asian feel)
By Masahiro Arai
Located in New Orleans, LA
"Candle Light" is a lithograph signed, dated, titled and editioned in pencil. It is #2 from an edition of 65 and was an exclusive publication of Stone and Press. Shadow and light are...
Category
1990s Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Still Life With Bottles - Etching by André Dunoyer de Segonzac- 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Still Life With Bottles is an etching and drypoint realized by André Dunoyer de Segonzac (1884-1974) in the mid-20th Century.
Good condition on a yellowed paper.
Hand-signed by the artist on the plate.
Limited edition of 60 copies numbered and signed.
André Dunoyer de Segonzac (7 July 1884 – 17 September 1974) was a French painter and graphic artist.In 1947, he published his suite of etchings illustrating the Georgics of Virgil. In the judgement of Anne Distel, chief curator of the Musée d'Orsay, "The technical perfection and the nobility of the tone, which carried the cachet of the original, but was imbued throughout with an unfailing lyricism, make this work Segonzac's masterpiece. It must be included in a list of the most beautifully illustrated books of [the 20th] century."The gossamer quality of his etchings stood in contrast to the thickly painted surfaces and generally somber color of his oil paintings, which reflected his admiration for Courbet and Cézanne. His subjects include landscapes, still lifes, and nudes. He influenced other artists like Samuel Peploe...
Category
1950s Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Etching
Sans Titre Illustration Print Limited Edition Signed
Located in Slovak Republic, SK
Print/ Photography/ Limited edition of 15, proposal for a Vinyl cover, signed by the author.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Digital, Color, Archival Pigment
Untitled - Drypoint by A. Soffici - 1939
Located in Roma, IT
Untitled is a drypoint artist's proof realized by Ardengo Soffici (Rignano sull’Arno 1879 – Vittoria Apuana 1964).
It is signed and dated on the lower right.
This is one of the mos...
Category
1930s Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Bouquet de Tulipes Rouge, Original Lithograph, Signed and Numbered
By Roger Mühl
Located in New York, NY
This magnificent bouquet of Red Tulips is an original lithograph by famous French artist Roger Muhl. The elegant lines and joyful colors are typical of the artist's love for nature and its flora. Roger Muhl lived in the town of Mougins in the South of France and he was strongly inspired by the bright and warm light found in the Mediterranean.
This original lithograph is from a signed and numbered edition in pencil by artist of 175 plus 10 artist proofs. Printed and published by Edition E.F. Mourlot in 1990
Certificate of Provenance:
Each individual work of art carefully curated by Mourlot Editions...
Category
1990s Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Love Apple (Black background)
Located in Storrs, CT
Love Apple (Black background). 1967. Linoleum cut printed in brown, red, orange, black and tan. 19 1/2 x 12 1/2 (sheet 22 1/2 x 14 3/16). A vivid impression printed on wove paper pap...
Category
1960s American Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Linocut, Color
DARTH VADER 60x50 Star Wars, Photography Pop Art, 70's Toys Photograph Art
By Destro
Located in Los Angeles, CA
DARTH VADER 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"
"They encapsulat...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
RAVIOLI DI TONNO MARCO POLO
Located in New York, NY
Decal printed on porcelain plate. Edition of 510. Depiction of a wrapped ravioli.
Category
1960s Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Porcelain
Still Life - screen print By Domenico Purificato - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Still Life is an original screen print on paper, realized by Domenico Purificato in the 1970s.
Hand-signed in pencil on the lower and numbered on ...
Category
1970s Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
Still Life with Flowers - Original Lithograph by Isis Kischka - 20th Century
By Isis Kischka
Located in Roma, IT
Still life with flowers is an Original Lithograph realized in the 20th Century by Isis Kischka (1908-1973)
Good conditions.
Hand-signed.
The artwork is realized with harmonious co...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Ancient Roman Fresco - Original Etching - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Fresco, from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized by an anonymous artist in the 18th century.
...
Category
18th Century Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Etching
Still Life - Original Woodcut by G. Haas-Triverio - The Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Still Life is an original woodcut print realized by Giuseppe Haas-Triverio in the early 20th century.
Good conditions.
The artwork is depicted through strong strokes in a well-bala...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Ex Libris Solveig Skullerud - Original Woodcut Print - 1945
Located in Roma, IT
Ex Libris Solveig Skullerud is an original Modern Artwork realized in 1945.
Original Ex Libris.
Original B/W woodcut print on ivory-colored paper. Dated and signed on plate: F.B. ...
Category
1940s Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Woodcut
DARTH VADER 30x40 Star Wars, Photography Pop Art Toys Unsigned Print Photograph
By Destro
Located in Los Angeles, CA
DARTH VADER 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"
"They encapsulate...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
Le Bouquet, Cubist Lithograph by 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
Les Marguerites (Daisies), c. 1950
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Created with a sensitive attention to color and value, this work is one of many floral motifs Braque depicted in his lifetime. Deeply saturated tones of ochre and brown express a subdued mood, while the hints of highlights convey to the viewer a sense of brightness and energy. A cluster of yellow daisies emerge from a simple ochre vase...
Category
1950s Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Aquatint, Etching
LES DELICES PETITS MARTYRS
Located in Aventura, FL
Hand signed and numbered by the artist. From Les Diners De Gala. Photo lithograph with a separate original engraving titled Spoon on Crutches. Image size...
Category
1970s Surrealist Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Paper
DARTH VADER 30x40 First Release , Star Wars, Photography Pop Art, 70's Toys
By Destro
Located in Los Angeles, CA
DARTH VADER 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"
"They encapsulat...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
Salvador Dali - Woman with a Whip - Original Stamp-Signed Etching
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Woman with a Whip - Original Stamp-Signed Etching
Stamp signed by Dali
Edition of 294 copies.
Paper : Arches vellum.
Dimensions : 16x12".
Catalogue Raisonné : Fiel...
Category
1960s Surrealist Still-life Prints
Materials
Etching
Les Pommes et Feuilles (Apples and Leaves)
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Composed of beautiful contrasting colors and sweeping line strokes that envelope the composition, everything works in unison to bring a warmth and richness to the quality of the imag...
Category
1950s Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
'Flowers' original abstract linocut by Wisconsin artist Schomer Lichtner
Located in Milwaukee, WI
'Flowers' is an original linocut by Wisconsin-based artist Schomer Lichtner. The composition presents a scattered floral still life amongst abstracted shadows and forms, rendered with Lichtner's quintessential abstract sensibilities. This print is one from a series that each depict abstracted subjects in black silhouette, taking pleasure in the materiality of the linocut technique. The free forms of the flower resemble the lyrical mid-century works of the French artist Henri Matisse, which combined with these material concerns demonstrate Lichter's modern sensibilities. The prints from this series are unusual because of how below the image, Lichtner also includes his Chinese seal and a linocut remarque of a cow, each of which act as an additional signature of the artist on the artwork.
Linocut in black and red on Permalife white wove paper
4 x 5.25 inches, image
11.5 x 8.75 inches, sheet
16.5 x 13.63 inches, frame
Signed in pencil, below image, lower right.
Edition 1/100 in pencil, below image, lower left.
Chinese signature stamp in red, below image, lower right.
Remaque of a cow in red, below image, lower right.
Permalife watermark to paper.
Framed to conservation standards in a shadow-box style mounting, using 100 percent rag matting, museum glass, and housed in a silver-finish wood moulding.
Overall excellent condition with no creases or discoloration.
Milwaukee artist Schomer Lichtner was well known for his whimsical cows and ballerinas and abstract imagery. He and his late wife Ruth Grotenrath, both well-known Wisconsin artists, began their prolific careers as muralists for WPA projects, primarily post offices.
Lichtner also painted murals for industry and private clients. Schomer was a printmaker and produced block prints, lithographs, and serigraph prints. His casein (paint made from dairy products) and acrylic paintings are of the rural Wisconsin landscape and farm animals. He became interested in cows when he and Ruth spent summers near Holy Hill in Washington County. According to David Gordon, director of the Milwaukee Art Museum, Schomer Lichtner had a tremendous joie de vivre and expressed it in his art.
Schomer Lichtner was nationally known for his whimsical paintings and sculptures of black- and white-patterned Holstein cows...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Paper, Black and White, Linocut
Still Life - Offset Print by Franco Gentilini - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Still Life is an original Vintage Offset Print on ivory-colored paper, realized by Franco Gentilini (Italian Painter, 1909-1981), in 1970s.
The state of preservation of the artwork ...
Category
1970s Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Offset
Python Sebae (African Rock Python Skull)
By Jacob Crook
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...
Category
2010s American Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Nature Morte a la Pipe (Still Life with Pipe), 1959
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Extremely detailed and brilliantly colored, Braque (Argenteuil-sur-Seine, 1882- Paris, 1963) creates this still life full of vigor and warmth. Adding a unique, organic quality to the...
Category
1950s Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Aquatint, Etching
Flowers - Original Ink Drawing by Robert Naly - Mid 20th Century
By Robert Naly
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 ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
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.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Digital, Black and White
Manolo Huguet - Musée de Céret, Poster by Pablo Picasso, 1957
Located in New York, NY
This original lithographic poster was created for an exhibition of works at the Musée D'Art Moderne in Céret, France, in 1957. This portrait of Spanish Sculptor and Picasso friend, M...
Category
1950s Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Holiday Pine Cones
Located in New Orleans, LA
This Holiday wreath adorns the door of a Brooklyn Mansion
Frederick Mershimer (American, b. 1958)
Moody, mysterious, majestic – these are some of the ways to describe the mezzotint...
Category
1990s American Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
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
Category
Early 2000s American Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Lithograph
MIGHTY TREE II Signed Lithograph, Realistic Tree Drawing, Surrealist Style
By Hanna Kay
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...
Category
1970s Surrealist Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Evening
Located in Slovak Republic, SK
Picture done during a nostalgic evening. Could be also delivered framed, smaller size as well, price upon request, signed by the author. Limited to 5.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
Still Life - Offset Print by Franco Gentilini - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Still Life is a Vintage Offset Print on ivory-colored paper, realized by Franco Gentilini (Italian Painter, 1909-1981) in the 1970s.
The state of preservation of the artwork is exce...
Category
1970s Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Offset, Paper
Obi Wan Kenobi 50x60 Star Wars, Photography Pop Art, Photograph Toys, Movie 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
Marc Chagall Still Life with Fruits 1957 Original Lithograph Mourlot 205
By Marc Chagall
Located in Eversholt, Bedfordshire
Surrealist composition with a dog, figure, cockerel floating above the still life
In a cream mount, visible sheet length 19.50cm, height 22.50cm
Within a black and silvered moulded ...
Category
1950s Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Portrait of Boy - Original Drawing by Hugo Pereyra - 1964
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Boy is an original artwork realized by Hugo Pereyra in 1964.
Original Ink and Watercolor
Hand-signed.
Category
1960s Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
Ancient Roman Fresco - Original Etching by Francesco Cepparuli - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Fresco, from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized from a design by Cepparuli after Nicolò Vanni in the 18th century.
Signe...
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18th Century Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Etching
Empresses; Theodora H10-3
By Damien Hirst
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...
Category
2010s Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Laminate, Digital
"Dark Box" Drypoint Etching with Aquatint (no. 10/20)
Located in Soquel, CA
Finely balanced etching by Benjamin Vasserman (Estonian, b 1949). A squash sits atop a small black box with a latch. There is a drapery behind the squa...
Category
1980s Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Ink, Aquatint, Drypoint, Paper
Nature Morte a la Fenetre, Cubist Lithograph by Pablo Picasso
Located in Long Island City, NY
A lithograph from the Marina Picasso Estate Collection after the Pablo Picasso painting "Nature Morte a la Fenetre". The original painting was completed in 1932. In the 1970's after...
Category
1980s Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Still Life - Offset Print by Franco Gentilini - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Still Life is an original Vintage Offset Print on ivory-colored paper, realized by Franco Gentilini (Italian Painter, 1909-1981), in 1970s.
The state of preservation of the artwork ...
Category
1970s Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Offset
Garden - Original Drawing by Gustave Pierre - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Garden is an Original Pencil Drawing realized by Gustave Pierre.
No signature, but Stamp signed on the back.
Good condition included a white cardboard passpartout (37x55 cm).
Gustave René Pierre...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Pencil
Take a Seat Photography Fine Art Print Limited Edition
Located in Slovak Republic, SK
Fine art print, limited edition of 15, signed by the author.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Color
Salvador Dali - The Marvellous Steps - Original Handsigned Etching
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Original Handsigned Etching
From La Quête du Graal
Dimensions: 45 x 33 cm
Handsigned
Edition: 38/100
(from the rare Suite)
Catalogue raisonné: Michler-Löpsinger 778-...
Category
1970s Surrealist Still-life Prints
Materials
Etching
Goldfish, Modern Still Life by Andre Minaux
By Andre Minaux
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Andre Minaux, French (1923 - 1986)
Title: Goldfish
Year: circa 1979
Medium: Lithograph on Arches Paper, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 120...
Category
1970s Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Chair & rooftoop
Located in New York, NY
“Chair & rooftop” is a mezzotint engraving created by Robert Kipniss in 2015. Printed in an edition of 30 this impression is signed in pencil and inscribed "27/30." The paper size i...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Still Life - Original Monotype by Simon Goldberg - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Still Life is an Original Monotype realized by Simon Goldberg (1916-2002).
Good condition on a yellowed paper, included a cardboard passpartout (31x39 ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Monotype
Poppies - Original lithograph, Signed
Located in Paris, FR
Pierre GARCIA-FONS
Poppies
Original lithograph
Signed in pencil
Justified EA (artist proof)
On vellum Arches 61 x 45 cm (c. 24 x 18 inch)
Very good condition, small ink mark
Dedic...
Category
20th Century Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Triangle Architecture Still Life, Yellow, Pink, Green Vivid Tones, Architecture
Located in Barcelona, ES
"Sexy Miami Futuristic Cocktail Lounge" is a series of photographs by Ryan Rivadeneyra inspired by the Art Deco colors of Miami that show beautiful objects ...
Category
2010s Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Photographic Paper, C Print, Digital, G...
Bouquet de Tulipes Rouge, Original Lithograph, Signed- Roger Roger Mühl
By Roger Mühl
Located in New York, NY
This magnificent bouquet of Red Tulips is an original lithograph by famous French artist Roger Muhl. The elegant lines and joyful colors are typical of the ...
Category
1990s Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
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.