Wunderkammer
Wicked Curious
Unleash your imagination with this collection of wonderfully weird pieces and curate your own Wunderkammer.
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"Collection of Curiosities" - Cornelis Le Mair, Classic Style Oil Painting
By Cornelis Le Mair
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Cornelis le Mair (Eindhoven, July 3rd 1944) is a Dutch painter. As a child, Le Mair already developed a talent for drawing. After completing high scho...
Category
2010s Realist Wunderkammer
Materials
Oil
Death and the Printmaker
By David Avery
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Signed, titled and numbered from the edition of 30. One of several recent prints by Avery that continue to win awards and purchase by museums and public collections. Surrealistic ima...
Category
2010s Contemporary Wunderkammer
Materials
Etching
Four Late 18th Century Hand-coloured Monkey Engravings
Located in London, GB
A group of four late eighteenth century hand-coloured engravings depicting monkeys. Set within giltwood frames
From “Histoire Naturelle des Singes et des Makis Peintres d’après Natu...
Category
18th Century Naturalistic Wunderkammer
Materials
Watercolor, Paper, Ink
'Parasol Mushroom' Contemporary bronze sculpture of a mushroom, Wildlife
By Richard Smith
Located in Shrewsbury, Shropshire
'Parasol Mushroom' is a stunningly elegant Bronze sculpture of a beautiful mushroom in the British countryside. Richard Smith conveys so much detail in such simple lines, exemplifyin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Wunderkammer
Materials
Bronze
Beyond A Shadow
Located in New Orleans, LA
[Portland, OR b. 1971 - Hunstville, Alabama]
Dirk Staschke is a full time studio artist who is best known for his exploration of Dutch Vanitas still life themes in the medium of ce...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Wunderkammer
Materials
Ceramic, Wood, Epoxy Glue
Chincherinchee - Botanical Color Photography Prints
By Martin Parker
Located in Cambridge, GB
Martin’s innovative photographs are created from plants grown by himself in his garden and greenhouse in Cambridge. A keen horticulturist, he cultivates his own plants and flowers, t...
Category
2010s Naturalistic Wunderkammer
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
Pair of English Porcelain Vases with Insects from John Mortlock circa 1875
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Pair of Vases with Parcel Gilt Insects
England, John Mortlock circa 1875
Porcelain with gold leaf
15 inches
The firm of Mortlock began business in 174...
Category
1870s Victorian Wunderkammer
Materials
Gold, Enamel
Loligo Vulgaris, Platinum Iridium Print, Photography, Contemporary
By Jan C. Schlegel
Located in Munich, DE
"Creatures of the seven seas"
Series of 16 images plus cover page.
Limited Editions of 5 on Arches Platinum Rag handmade by the artist himself.
Edition 1 + 2 only available as compl...
Category
2010s Contemporary Wunderkammer
Materials
Platinum
Zeus Faber, Platinum Iridium Print, Photography, Contemporary
By Jan C. Schlegel
Located in Munich, DE
"Creatures of the seven seas"
Series of 16 images plus cover page.
Limited Editions of 5 on Arches Platinum Rag handmade by the artist himself.
Edition 1 + 2 only available as compl...
Category
2010s Contemporary Wunderkammer
Materials
Platinum
YELLOW THREAD NO. 0440, Nature Morte
By Claire Rosen
Located in Vienna, AT
Classic inspired still life with green asparagus, yellow lemons and blue/white dishware.
Claire Rosen is an award-winning artist whose elaborate tableaux constructions often feature...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Wunderkammer
Ensō: Memento Mori Red (2016) Limited Edition (print) by Murakami hand signed
By Takashi Murakami
Located in Hong Kong, HK
Ensō: Memento Mori Red (2016) by Takashi Murakami
Offset lithograph
Numbered and signed by the artist
Sheet 67 X 67 cm
Framed
Edition 30/300
Takashi Murakami is best known for his...
Category
2010s Pop Art Wunderkammer
Materials
Offset, Lithograph
Memento Mori Skull with Rosary on Bible Zsolnay, Art Nouveau c. 1900
By Miklos Zsolnay
Located in Chicago, IL
Recalling the Dutch vanitas still life works of the 17th century, this arrangement reminds the viewer of life's impermanence and the certainty of death, all while emphasizing the imp...
Category
Early 1900s Art Nouveau Wunderkammer
Materials
Ceramic
Saint Jerome in His Study
Located in San Antonio, TX
Flemish School, believed to be from the 16th century according to previous owner. Oil on panel depicting Saint Jerome seated in his study with various instruments and symbols around ...
Category
16th Century Flemish School Wunderkammer
Materials
Oil
"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 skull situated with an orange, a Marine Corps coin, ...
Category
2010s American Realist Wunderkammer
Materials
Oil, Panel
Memento Mori
By Kiva Ford
Located in New York, NY
Kiva Ford
Memento Mori, 2015
Borosilicate glass
13.50h x 7.50w x 7.50d in
Category
2010s Contemporary Wunderkammer
Materials
Glass
Mappe-Monde Dresse sur les Observations de Mrs. De L'Academie Royale des Science
By Guillaume De L'Isle
Located in New York, NY
Published by J. Covens & C. Mortier, Amsterdam.
Copper plate engraving, 1696, (c.1725).
Image size 19 1/2 x 25" (496 x 636 mm) plus margins.
Good condition save for...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Wunderkammer
Materials
Engraving
a. Cassia fistula ex insulis, Casse en batons, fistul Cassia / N.340
By Georg Dionysius Ehret
Located in Mount Vernon, NY
Hand-colored mezzotint engraving printed in color and finished by hand on laid paper from "Phytanthoza Iconographia." Edited by Johann Wihelm Weinmann (1683-1741) with drawings by Ge...
Category
Mid-18th Century Wunderkammer
Materials
Engraving
Palinurus Elephas, Platinum Iridium Print, Photography, Contemporary
By Jan C. Schlegel
Located in Munich, DE
"Creatures of the seven seas"
Series of 16 images plus cover page.
Limited Editions of 5 on Arches Platinum Rag handmade by the artist himself.
Edition 1 + 2 only available as compl...
Category
2010s Contemporary Wunderkammer
Materials
Platinum
Brama Brama, Platinum Iridium Print, Photography, Contemporary
By Jan C. Schlegel
Located in Munich, DE
"Creatures of the seven seas"
Series of 16 images plus cover page.
Limited Editions of 5 on Arches Platinum Rag handmade by the artist himself.
Edition 1 + 2 only available as compl...
Category
2010s Contemporary Wunderkammer
Materials
Platinum
Memento Mori - Oil Still-Life Painting Colours Black Brown Beige Grey White Pink
By Lyubena Fox
Located in Sofia, BG
"Memento Mori "
Oil on canvas
Unframed 25 x 16,5 cm
Framed 50,5 x 42,5 cm
The frame Handmade from wood and plaster, water gilded with genuine gold leaf over rouge burnishing bole and patinated.
Exhibited in the “Memento Mori” art show in Manhattan, New York with Sugar Lift in the beginning of 2021
The symbolism:
Memento Mori (Latin for 'remember that you have to die) is an artistic or symbolic reminder of the inevitability of death. The concept has its roots in the philosophers of classical antiquity, and it was reflected in the artistic genre of Vanitas, where symbolic objects such as hourglasses and wilting flowers signified the impermanence of human life.
Memento Mori
The Painting’s Qualities
Lyubena Fox...
Category
2010s Academic Wunderkammer
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Nepalese Teral Blessing Post, " Carved Wood created in the 19th Century
Located in Milwaukee, WI
This Nepalese Teral blessing post was carved from wood. It was created in the 19th Century and features abstract patterns. It is 27" high, 8" wide, and 2" deep.
Category
19th Century Tribal Wunderkammer
Materials
Wood
Still Life with Mouse, New York
By Irving Penn
Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
Signed, titled, dated and copyrighted 1983 on back of print. Stamped, 'Signed silver print of this negative not exceeding' and 78 written in pencil on back of print. Annotated, 'Copy...
Category
20th Century Wunderkammer
Materials
Silver Gelatin
“Some Girl” Death - 6
By Damien Hirst
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: hirst, Damien
Title: “Some Girl” Death - 6
Date: 2010
Medium: Mixed Media
Unframed Dimensions: 28.25" x 20.75"
Framed Dimensions: 35" x 26.5"
...
Category
2010s Young British Artists (YBA) Wunderkammer
Materials
Mixed Media
Chrysanthemum Yukidoro
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Vintage Hand Colored Albumen Print
Category
Late 19th Century Wunderkammer
Chrysanthemum (1 Washigamine 2 Riukonoisami)
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Vintage Hand Colored Albumen print
Category
Late 19th Century Wunderkammer
Hippocampus Barbouri (female), Platinum Iridium Print, Photography, Contemporary
By Jan C. Schlegel
Located in Munich, DE
"Creatures of the seven seas"
Series of 16 images plus cover page.
Limited Editions of 5 on Arches Platinum Rag handmade by the artist himself.
Edition 1 + 2 only available as compl...
Category
2010s Contemporary Wunderkammer
Materials
Platinum
Lotus
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Vintage Hand Colored Albumen Print
Category
Late 19th Century Wunderkammer
Pleuronectes Platessa, Platinum Iridium Print, Photography, Contemporary
By Jan C. Schlegel
Located in Munich, DE
"Creatures of the seven seas"
Series of 16 images plus cover page.
Limited Editions of 5 on Arches Platinum Rag handmade by the artist himself.
Edition 1 + 2 only available as compl...
Category
2010s Contemporary Wunderkammer
Materials
Platinum
Camellia
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Vintage Hand Colored Albumen print
Category
Late 19th Century Wunderkammer
Chrysanthemum (Senjogataki)
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Vintage Hand Colored Albumen print
Category
Late 19th Century Wunderkammer
Peter Beard - Elephant's Embryo, Uganda, Platinum Print- Unsigned
By Peter Beard
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Elephant's Embryo, Uganda
Peter Beard/Unsigned
The original photograph "unsigned" but documented by its inclusion in "Peter Beard - Fifty Years of Portraits, The End of the Game, Eyelids of Morning, and many others.
Image size: 16 in. H x 20 in. W
Platinum print
Peter Hill...
Category
1960s Contemporary Wunderkammer
Materials
Platinum
Set of Six Botanical Prints
Located in New York, NY
These colored engravings are from Edward Joseph Lowe's 1861 book "Beautiful Leaved Plants. Being a Description of the Most Beautiful Leaved Plants ...
Category
1860s Wunderkammer
Materials
Laid Paper, Engraving
"Putti" 19th c. Terracotta, Antique, Mythical Figures, Patina
Located in Detroit, MI
SALE ONE WEEK ONLY
“Putti” is a 19th c. terracotta antique of two nude children, babies, as mythical figures. This piece is beautifully rendered with a...
Category
Late 19th Century Baroque Wunderkammer
Materials
Terracotta, Wood
The Column of Trajan in Rome, 19th Century Framed Etching by Luigi Rossini
By Luigi Rossini
Located in Alamo, CA
Early 19th century etching entitled "Veduta dello scavo del Foro Trajano" from Luigi Rossini's "Le Antichita Romane" (Ancient Rome), published in Rome in 1823. It depicts the historical victory column of Trajan standing amidst broken ancient Roman columns that lie around it. The column in Trajan's Forum commemorates Roman emperor Trajan's victory in the Dacian Wars. Buildings in the background represent two libraries and the Basilica Ulpia. There are people in the foreground; some walking through the square, some standing observing the scene and others in discussion.
The etching is presented in a silver-colored wood frame with an off-white double mat with a black inner mat. It is in very good condition. See item # LU117324669702 for another Rossini etching...
Category
1820s Old Masters Wunderkammer
Materials
Etching
Death or Glory - Glorius Skull (Cool Gold - European Gold)
By Damien Hirst
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Foil block print
Edition 2 of 2
Born in Bristol England, in 1965, Damien Hirst grew up in Leeds and studied at Goldsmiths College, London. Most notable amongst the exhibitions he curated while at college was Freeze, in 1988, in which he exhibited his work and that of his contemporaries. The exhibition is widely believed to have been the starting point of the Young British Artist Movement, and a defining moment in kick-starting cutting edge British contemporary art.
Hirst’s body of work confronts the scientific, philosophical and religious aspects of human existence and includes sculpture, painting and printmaking. He has exhibited widely and was awarded the Turner Prize in 1995 for The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living. In 2004, Hirst collaborated with Sarah Lucas and Angus Fairhurst to exhibit recent works at Tate Britain, under the title In-a-Gadda-da-Vida.
In 2006, works from the artist’s Murderme collection were exhibited at the Serpentine gallery, London: ‘In the darkest hour there may be light. ‘More recently, Hirst exhibited No Love Lost: Blue Paintings at The Wallace Collection, London, 2010; Cornucopia at Musée Océanographique de Monaco, 2010 and with Michael Joo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Wunderkammer
Materials
Mixed Media, Archival Paper
Wunderkammer
By Richard Whitten
Located in Lincoln, MA
Oil on panel by Richard Whitten
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Wunderkammer
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Case 885 - Cabinet of Curiosities, Wunderkammer, Contemporary Art Sculpture
Located in New York, NY
This work from Linda Stein's Displacement From Home series draws from the tradition of wunderkammer/cabinets of curiosities to highlight the globa...
Category
2010s Contemporary Wunderkammer
Materials
Metal
Flutter, Contemporary black and white photo, butterflies, very rare, still life
By Osheen Harruthoonyan
Located in Kinderhook, NY
A pair of gold toned silver gelatin prints of butterflies. The prints are 5.5 x 6.5 inches each and framed as a diptych with 8 ply museum mattboard.
Framed dimension are 12.5x18 inc...
Category
2010s Contemporary Wunderkammer
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Vanitas (unfinished)
By Michael Leonard
Located in London, GB
Alkyd-oil on board, 81cm diam., (100cm diam framed).
Although most famous for his portrait of HM Queen Elizabeth in the National Portrait Gallery, London, from the late 1970s up un...
Category
Early 2000s Post-War Wunderkammer
Materials
Board, Oil
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...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Wunderkammer
Materials
Oil
Vanitas
Located in Woodbury, CT
Oil on panel, signed and dated 2000. Unframed size: 15.7 inches high x 23.6 inches wide x 0.25 inches deep. Sold unframed. Reverse side with older, faded Eyckmans' painting and artist's label.
Created in 2000, and much inspired by the Old Masters, this painting combines many “vanitas” symbols—reminders that change and death are inevitable. The skull, aging books, extinguished candle, fallen cup, and stopped watch are beautifully composed in close-up, utilizing a minimum of negative space. One can see the fuzzy and unrecognizable reflection of the painter, quite rare for him, in the silver incense holder. Note the complex composition, the strong use of chiaroscuro, and the masterful depiction of the human skull, the threads of the unravelling books, and the smoke of the candle. Please note that the last photo is of the reverse side of the painting, indicating that the panel was reused. Unlike Stefaan’s other works, this painting is sold unframed.
This painting is available for viewing at The Elemental Garden...
Category
Early 2000s Realist Wunderkammer
Materials
Oil
Vanitas with Seneca
By Hans Withoos
Located in New York City, NY
HANS WITHOOS (Rotterdam, The Netherlands)
Vanitas with Seneca, 2016
60 x 40 inches - Edition of 9
Fine art inkjet print on special paper rag, on Dibond with a certified Liquid Gloss...
Category
2010s Contemporary Wunderkammer
Materials
Archival Pigment
Skull with Sacred Writings and Tablets of the Law - Tempera on Cardboard
Located in Roma, IT
Skull with Sacred Writings and Tablets of the Law is a superb and colorful tempera on cardboard, realized in 1766 by an anonymous artist of ...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Wunderkammer
Materials
Tempera
Thy Name is Woman
Located in Woodbury, CT
Oil on canvas, signed and dated 2018. French handmade Delf wooden frame, dark bronze patina with gold leaf. Unframed size: 19.7 inches high x 24.02 inches wide. Framed size: 28 inches high x 32.3 inches wide x 1.25 inches deep. Sold framed.
Stefaan was gifted this skull by a friend, whose carpenter father found many years ago in a false ceiling. The skull sat in his workshop and was eventually named “Gilda”. The composition is unusual in its stark simplicity that speaks to the inevitable death we all face. Fascinating without being morbid, the arrangement is simple yet bold. Note the extraordinary brushwork detailed in the shroud, as well as the intricacies of the skull. The slash of cobalt blue in the background provides an ethereal quality. The title is adapted from Shakespeare’s Hamlet and is the artist’s inside joke on the character “Guildenstern” vs “Gilda”. Part of the title can be seen in the lower right quadrant of the painting. Compared to “Vanitas”, painted in 2000, the artist’s evolution in form and execution is most evident in this 2018 work.
This painting is available for viewing at The Elemental Garden...
Category
2010s Realist Wunderkammer
Materials
Oil
Damien Hirst - Abacus, hirst, skull, silver, sculpture, contemporary art
By Damien Hirst
Located in London, GB
Damien Hirst (b.1965)
Abacus - The Dream is Dead
2007
silver
14.5 x 14 x 21 cm
incised, titled and numbered ‘Abacus Damien Hirst The Dream is dead 2/12’ (on the verso)
edition 2/12
...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Wunderkammer
Materials
Silver
Mushrooms, Tuscany
By Kate Breakey
Located in Sante Fe, NM
For me, an artistic process is an act of investigation – a passionate attempt to establish an understanding of the natural world – a version that incorporates both intellectual and e...
Category
2010s Contemporary Wunderkammer
Materials
Pastel, Pencil, Archival Pigment
Dandelion - Botanical Color Photography Prints
By Martin Parker
Located in Cambridge, GB
Martin’s innovative photographs are created from plants grown by himself in his garden and greenhouse in Cambridge. A keen horticulturist, he cultivates his own plants and flowers, t...
Category
2010s Naturalistic Wunderkammer
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color
Geranium - Botanical Color Photography Prints
By Martin Parker
Located in Cambridge, GB
Martin’s innovative photographs are created from plants grown by himself in his garden and greenhouse in Cambridge. A keen horticulturist, he cultivates his own plants and flowers, t...
Category
2010s Naturalistic Wunderkammer
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
Crocosmia IV - Botanical Color Photography Prints
By Martin Parker
Located in Cambridge, GB
Martin’s innovative photographs are created from plants grown by himself in his garden and greenhouse in Cambridge. A keen horticulturist, he cultivates his own plants and flowers, t...
Category
2010s Naturalistic Wunderkammer
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
Johann Weinmann: c18th Botanical Engravings in Decalcomania Frames
Located in Richmond, GB
A wonderful selection of hand-coloured mezzotint engravings from: ""Phytanthoza Iconographia"", c1739, presented in hand- made parcel-gilt, ebonised and decalcomania frames.
Joha...
Category
18th Century Wunderkammer
Materials
Watercolor, Mezzotint
Agaricus Casareus, Leuba antique mushroom fungi botanical chromolithograph print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Agaricus Casareus'
Antique Swiss mushroom / fungi chromolithograph, lithographed by H Furrer after Fritz Leuba. The print is titled with the scientific name...
Category
Late 19th Century Naturalistic Wunderkammer
Materials
Lithograph
Contemporary Sculpture Installation Still Life Flora Light Botanical Porcelain
Located in Buffalo, NY
Delicate green and pink flora emerge from a pool of milky white light. “Looking Between I” (2022) by Colleen Toledano. Porcelain, flocking, light, resin.
Category
2010s Contemporary Wunderkammer
Materials
Resin, Lights, Porcelain
Petraeus "Vanitas vanitatis"
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Petraeus
Vanitas vanitatis
Acrylic/ oil on canvas/ frame
2020
Vanity on 1903 portrait by E Brunet
Signed Brunet and dated on the front
Signed Petraeus on the back
Size work: 47 x 57...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Wunderkammer
Materials
Acrylic
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 the inevitability of death and the transience and vanity of earthly achievements and pleasures; it exhorts the viewer to consider mortality and to repent. This still life vanitas drawing is matted with a heavy white mat and framed in a bronze toned wooden frame measuring 15.75 x 16.25 inches.
John Hrehov
Skull and Ornament
colored pencil on paper
7h x 8w in
17.78h x 20.32w cm
JHR006
John Hrehov
Education
1985 MFA-Painting, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1981 BFA-Painting, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH.
Solo Exhibitions
2017 John Hrehov, Paintings and Drawings. Tom Thomas...
Category
2010s Surrealist Wunderkammer
Materials
Archival Paper, Color Pencil
