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Bouquet of Flowers with Vanitas
By Louis Latapie
Located in London, GB
1930s). A vanitas painting contains collections of objects symbolic of the inevitability of death and
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1930s Still-life Paintings

Materials

Paper, Wax Crayon

1950s Outsider Art Still Life Painting
Located in Garnerville, NY
A modernist contemplative allegorical still life vanitas type painting on masonite board. Circa
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Vintage 1950s American Folk Art Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Paint

Vanitas
By John McLeod
Located in Denver, CO
Skull and Tomatoes
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2010s American Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Panel, Oil

Vanitas
Vanitas
H 8 in W 10 in
Vanitas (unfinished)
By Michael Leonard
Located in London, GB
revisiting his previous painting Vanitas, (1991) when he retired from painting due to ill-health, making the
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Early 2000s Post-War Figurative Paintings

Materials

Board, Oil

Vanitas
Located in Woodbury, CT
. Created in 2000, and much inspired by the Old Masters, this painting combines many “vanitas” symbols
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Early 2000s Realist Still-life Paintings

Materials

Oil

Vanitas
Vanitas
H 15.7 in W 23.6 in D 0.25 in
Vanitas 15.12.01
By Paul Béliveau
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Paul Beliveau, Canadian (b. 1954) Title: Vanitas 05.12.01 Year: 2015 Medium: Acrylic on
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2010s Photorealist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Vanitas 15.10.28
By Paul Béliveau
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Paul Beliveau, Canadian (b. 1954) Title: Vanitas 05.10.28 Year: 2015 Medium: Acrylic on
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2010s Photorealist Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic, Canvas

Apple and Katydids, surreal egg tempera still life nature painting
By Douglas Safranek
Located in New York, NY
specimen in immense detail. A nod to 17th century Dutch vanitas paintings, Safranek modernizes, and lends a
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2010s Surrealist Still-life Paintings

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Egg Tempera, Illustration Board

Omnia Vanitas
By Daniela Astone
Located in PARIS, FR
Born in Pisa 1980 Daniela Astone grew up in the sea-town of Porto S. Stefano in Maremma (Italy). In 1998 after graduating from the visual arts high school of Grosseto she moved to Fl...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Vanitas Relief
By Kevin Sonmor
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Kevin Sonmor’s heroic, post-apocalyptic paintings […] reference dark brooding abstract landscapes
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2010s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil

Shallow Vanitas
By Kevin Sonmor
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Kevin Sonmor’s heroic, post-apocalyptic paintings […] reference dark brooding abstract landscapes
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2010s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil

Agriculture Vanitas
By Kevin Sonmor
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Kevin Sonmor’s heroic, post-apocalyptic paintings […] reference dark brooding abstract landscapes
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2010s Abstract Paintings

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Linen, Oil

“Tech Vanitas: Gray Typewriter” Contemporary Still-life Photograph Vintage Tech
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Dutch vanitas paintings and their air of craft guilds, international trade, and luxury goods. At the
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

"Tech Vanitas: Musical Decanter" contemporary still-life photo of vintage tech
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Dutch vanitas paintings, which often featured platters of food, domestic wares, and finely crafted
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography

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Archival Pigment

"Tech Vanitas: Electric Fan" Contemporary Still-life Photograph of Vintage Tech
Located in Brooklyn, NY
My “Tech Vanitas” still life photography series embraces our love for beautifully designed, vintage
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography

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Archival Pigment

Petraeus "Vanitas vanitatis"
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Petraeus Vanitas vanitatis Acrylic/ oil on canvas/ frame 2020 Vanity on 1903 portrait by E Brunet
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21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Petraeus "Vanitas vanitatis"
Petraeus "Vanitas vanitatis"
H 18.51 in W 21.26 in D 1.58 in
“Tech Vanitas: Blue Typewriter” Contemporary Still-life Photograph, Vintage Tech
Located in Brooklyn, NY
and anxiety over new technology. My still lifes clearly reference 17th Century Dutch vanitas paintings
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography

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Archival Pigment

"Vanitas with Marine Corps Coin" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Patrick Nevin's (US based) "Vanitas with Marine Corps Coin" is an oil painting that depicts a human
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2010s American Realist Still-life Paintings

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Panel, Oil

2nd Vanitas Relief
By Kevin Sonmor
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Kevin Sonmor’s heroic, post-apocalyptic paintings […] reference dark brooding abstract landscapes
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2010s Abstract Paintings

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Linen, Oil

Red Vanitas Study
By Kevin Sonmor
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Kevin Sonmor’s heroic, post-apocalyptic paintings […] reference dark brooding abstract landscapes
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2010s Abstract Paintings

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Linen, Oil

“Tech Vanitas: Player Piano” Contemporary Still-life Photograph of Vintage Tech
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Century Dutch vanitas paintings and their air of craft guilds, international trade, and luxury goods. At
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography

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Archival Pigment

"Tech Vanitas: Electric Fireflies" Contemporary Still-life Photo of Vintage Tech
Located in Brooklyn, NY
and anxiety over new technology. My still lifes clearly reference 17th Century Dutch vanitas paintings
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

"Tech Vanitas: Graffiti Speakers" Contemporary Still-life Photo of Vintage Tech
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Dutch vanitas paintings and their air of craft guilds, international trade, and luxury goods. At the
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography

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Archival Pigment

“Tech Vanitas: Green Instamatic” Contemporary Still-life Photo of Vintage Tech
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Dutch vanitas paintings and their air of craft guilds, international trade, and luxury goods. At the
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography

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Archival Pigment

Vanitas Oil Painting on Panel Still Life In Stock
By Victor Muller
Located in Utrecht, NL
Vanitas Oil Painting on Linen Canvas Still Life In Stock Born in Den Helder, The Netherlands in
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Panel

“Tech Vanitas: Red Phone” Contemporary Still-life Photograph of Vintage Tech
Located in Brooklyn, NY
vanitas paintings and their air of craft guilds, international trade, and luxury goods. At the same time
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography

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Archival Pigment

“Tech Vanitas: Pink Sewing Machine” Contemporary Still-life Photo Vintage Tech
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Dutch vanitas paintings and their air of craft guilds, international trade, and luxury goods. At the
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography

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Archival Pigment

"Tech Vanitas: Blue iMac" Contemporary Still-life Photograph of Vintage Tech
Located in Brooklyn, NY
vanitas paintings and their air of craft guilds, international trade, and luxury goods. At the same time
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography

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Archival Pigment

“Tech Vanitas: Black & White TV” Contemporary Still-life Photograph Vintage Tech
Located in Brooklyn, NY
and anxiety over new technology. My still lifes clearly reference 17th Century Dutch vanitas paintings
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography

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Archival Pigment

“Cuckoo Clock” from Tech Vanitas Series of Contemporary Still-life Photographs
Located in Brooklyn, NY
“Cuckoo Clock” from my “Tech Vanitas” photography series, embraces our love for beautiful vintage
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography

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Archival Pigment

"Tech Vanitas: Satellite Radio" Contemporary Still-life Photo of Vintage Tech
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Dutch vanitas paintings and their air of craft guilds, international trade, and luxury goods. At the
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography

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Archival Pigment

“Tech Vanitas: Polaroid SX70” Contemporary Still-life Photograph of Vintage Tech
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Dutch vanitas paintings and their air of craft guilds, international trade, and luxury goods. At the
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography

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Archival Pigment

American School Memento Vanitas Still Life Canvas Painting
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Impressive oil on canvas memento mori or omnia vanitas still life painting. The site measures 15.5
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20th Century American Baroque Paintings

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Canvas, Wood

Italian Vanitas painter - 19th century figure painting - Memento Mori
Located in Varmo, IT
. Antique oil painting on wood, in a wooden frame. Condition report: Original canvas. Good state of
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Late 19th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Panel

Vanitas Still Life, Oil Painting by Pamela Schermer
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Pamela Schermer, American XXth Title: Vanitas Still Life Year: 1986 Medium: Oil on Canvas
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1980s American Realist Still-life Paintings

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Oil

“Tech Vanitas: Reel to Reel” Contemporary Still-life Photo of Vintage Tech
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Dutch vanitas paintings and their air of craft guilds, international trade, and luxury goods. At the
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography

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Archival Pigment

Vanitas I+II
By Nicholas & Sheila Pye
Located in Montreal, Quebec
rotting flowers and skulls in a style reminiscent of sixteenth and seventeenth century vanitas paintings
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Photography

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Photographic Paper

"Tech Vanitas: Dot Matrix" contemporary still-life photograph of vintage tech
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Century Dutch vanitas paintings and their air of craft guilds, international trade, and luxury goods. At
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Black Rush: Self Portrait with Vanitas
Located in New York, NY
This work by Anthony Peyton Young is offered by CLAMP in New York City.
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

“Tech Vanitas: Fiber Optics” Space Age Still-Life Photograph of Vintage Tech
Located in Brooklyn, NY
reference 17th Century Dutch vanitas paintings, which often featured scientific wonders, objects of
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

"Tech Vanitas: Train Set" contemporary still-life photograph of vintage toys
Located in Brooklyn, NY
vanitas paintings, which often featured musical instruments, objects of curiosity, and finely crafted
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography

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Archival Pigment

Vanitas 17
Located in Chicago, IL
. He expresses his artistic vision in several mediums including drawing, painting, kinetic sculpture
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Water...

Materials

Graphite

Painting 18th Century Vanitas Still Life Skull Religion Esotericism Occult
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Vanitas 18th century French School Oil on canvas Old frame gilded with gold leaves Dim canvas : 73
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Late 18th Century Old Masters Still-life Paintings

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Oil

Still Life with Game, Fruit and Veg - Flemish 17thC Old Master art oil painting
Located in London, GB
, hunting still lifes, animal and fish still lifes, vanitas paintings and still lifes of weapons. He also
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17th Century Old Masters Still-life Paintings

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Oil

Abstracted Vanitas with Goldfish and Skull
By Michael Pauker
Located in Soquel, CA
Large-scale abstracted vanitas with goldfish, table, candle and skull by Bay Area artist Michael
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic, Oil, Canvas

Oil painting on iron plate depicting a Vanitas, Italy late 17th century.
Located in Milan, IT
Oil painting on iron plate, depicting a Vanitas with skull and fruit. Octagonal frame in
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Antique Late 17th Century Italian Paintings

Materials

Iron

Naturalistic Vanitas Fruit Still Life Painting of Grapes, Pears, and Apples
By Oliver Clare
Located in Houston, TX
Still life oil painting with grapes, pears, and apples. Set within a gold frame and plated with
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Early 20th Century Naturalistic Still-life Paintings

Materials

Oil

Still Life, 17th Century Oil on Panel Painting
Located in London, GB
this vanitas painting the golden plate, balancing precariously off of the table ledge, also evokes the
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Mid-17th Century Still-life Paintings

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Panel, Oil

Vanita. 1995, oil on canvas, 57x69 cm
By Janis Zemitis
Located in Riga, LV
Vanita. 1995, oil on canvas, 57x69 cm In 1958 he graduated from the Riga Art School of J
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1990s Abstract Still-life Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Ever Transient
Located in New Orleans, LA
of vanitas paintings – the fragility and transience of life and the hollowness of worldly pleasures
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21st Century and Contemporary Paintings

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Linen, Oil

Vanitas IV : artwork in the genre of narrative realism
Located in New York, NY
Painting by a contemporary artist Audrey Ushenko. Audrey Ushenko works in the genre of narrative
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1970s Realist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Still Life Vanitas Noletti Paint Oil on canvas Old master 17th Century Italian
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
x 102) This painting, of beautiful scenic effect, depicts a still life composed of a rich display
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17th Century Old Masters Paintings

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Oil

"Vanità necessità" by Enzio Wenk, 2010 - Acrylic on Canvas, Colorful Words
By Enzio Wenk
Located in Bresso, IT
Translated title: "Vanity necessity" Acrylic on canvas.
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Vanita. Abstract still life with scull. 2004, oil, collage on canvas, 100x120 cm
By Janis Zemitis
Located in Riga, LV
Vanita. 2004, oil, collage on canvas, 100x120 cm In 1958 he graduated from the Riga Art School of
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Early 2000s Surrealist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Vanitas de Plata - Wood Colored Panel Yellow Green White Blue Purple Orange Red
By Eric Liot
Located in Sofia, BG
"Vanitas de Plata" is a wood decorated colored Panel. It is created by the French artist Maestro
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2010s Pop Art Figurative Paintings

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Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel

Vanitas, Oil on Panel, Circle of Vincent Sellaer 'c. 1500-Mechelen, before 1589'
Located in Madrid, ES
Vanitas. Oil on panel. Surroundings by Vincent Sellaer (c. 1500-Mechelen, before 1589). Oil on
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Antique 16th Century European Renaissance Paintings

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Other

"Fading Light", pencil, paper, portrait, cubist, classic arts, vanitas
Located in Toronto, Ontario
painting – arguably an ode to art and art making, posterity where it can be found. Vanitas. "Fading Light
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21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Pencil, Paper

Contemporary Oil on Canvas Painting by Lars Dan
By Lars Dan
Located in Santa Monica, CA
abstract floral arrangements reminiscent of 17th-century vanitas paintings. His art tells poetic tales
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20th Century Danish Decorative Art

Materials

Wood

Skull and Ornament - Vanitas, Still Life, Color Pencil Drawing, Framed
By John Hrehov
Located in Chicago, IL
Drawings of skulls are often called vanitas, which often contain collections of objects symbolic of
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2010s Surrealist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

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Color Pencil, Archival Paper

Dismemberment
Located in Hollywood, FL
, confused, or sinister. Her compositions have drawn on historical sources including Dutch vanitas paintings
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2010s Contemporary More Prints

Materials

Archival Pigment

Dismemberment
Dismemberment
H 24 in W 20 in D 1 in
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The price for an artwork of this kind can differ depending upon size, time period and other attributes — a vanitas painting in our inventory may begin at $155 and can go as high as $180,000, while the average can fetch as much as $4,565.