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
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
Panel, Oil
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
Wunderkammer
By Richard Whitten
Located in Lincoln, MA
Oil on panel by Richard Whitten
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Wunderkammer
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
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
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
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
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Study for Marjanah
By Alexander Oscar Levy
Located in Buffalo, NY
A beautiful art deco portrait by well listed American Ashcan School artist Alexander Oscar Levy. This piece was featured in the American Art Review article about the Levy retrospect...
Category
1920s Art Deco Wunderkammer
Materials
Oil, Board
Red Ice Block Tongs
By John Morfis
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
An oil painting of an antique pair of tongs, meant for use during ice fishing. Suspended from a small rope, hanging from a single nail, against a grey backdrop. Brushstrokes can be seen in the gray of the background, but are harder to make out on the subject. Morfis paints in an extremely refined, realist approach.
Painting dimensions: 25 x 19 inches
Framed dimensions: 30 x 24 x 1.5 inches
Available at Grenning Gallery.
BIOGRAPHY
John Morfis was born in Glen Cove, Long Island in 1976. His humble beginnings made pursuing a career in art difficult and paradoxically necessary. Fixated on making things aesthetically pleasing, John made an extreme departure from his family life when he chose to base his life on art. Surrounded by mechanics, welders, and otherwise trade workers John had a tough time expressing his interest in a world much more utilitarian and much less expressive and impractical.
With an extraordinary desire to be an artist and a grant awarded, John was able to earn a Bachelor of Fine Arts with a concentration in painting from the University of Hartford in 1998. While there John studied oil painting under American realist Stephen Brown.
John’s first solo show took place in 2007 at the Ellen Traut Collection Gallery in Hartford, CT and was a near sell out. Since then John has had success up and down the northeastern coast of the United States working with various galleries and collectors. His work has also appeared in various group shows at the New Britain Museum of American Art in Connecticut.
ARTIST STATEMENT
Each painting, although a portrait of a tired hand...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Wunderkammer
Materials
Oil, Panel
triptych of pocket bring clementine, speckled green pear, ripe-ish yellow banana
By Dani Humberstone
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Speckled Greeen Pear is an original oil painting by Dani Humberstone as part of her Pocket Painting series featuring small scale oil realistic oil paintings with a nod to baroque still life. The paintings are set in a black wood layered frame.
Additional information:
Oil, Oil Paint on Canvas
15 H x 15 W x 3 D cm (5.91 x 5.91 x 1.18 in)
Sold framed
Pocket Ripe-ish Banana is an original oil painting by Dani Humberstone as part of her Pocket Painting series featuring small scale oil realistic oil paintings with a nod to baroque still life. The paintings are set in a black wood layered frame.
Additional information:
Oil, Oil Paint on Canvas
15 H x 17 W x 3 D cm (5.91 x 6.69 x 1.18 in)
Sold framed
Please note that insitu images are purely an indication of how a piece may look
Pocket Bright Clementine...
Category
2010s Realist Wunderkammer
Materials
Canvas, Oil
H 5.91 in W 5.91 in D 1.19 in
Daily Life Scene in a 17th Century Vermeer Style - Dutch Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Pasadena, CA
This tribute painting to Flemish art by an unknown artist portrays figures inside a mansion with a yellow and black checkerboard floor and a stained-glass window with brilliant color...
Category
1940s Flemish School Wunderkammer
Materials
Oil, Canvas
H 38.5 in W 64 in D 3 in
Nude with a bow - Realistic oil painting, Warm tones, Young Polish artist
Located in Warsaw, PL
AGNIESZKA STAAK-JANCZARSKA (born in 1994)
A graduate of the State Secondary School of Art of Józef Kluza in Krakow. In 2020, she graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow in ...
Category
2010s Naturalistic Wunderkammer
Materials
Cardboard, Oil
18th century portrait of the painter Nathaniel Dance
Located in London, GB
Collections:
Robert Gallon (1845-1925);
Private Collection, UK.
Oil on canvas laid down on panel
Framed dimensions: 11.5 x 10 inches
This highly engaging, previously unpublished portrait by Johan...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Wunderkammer
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel, Canvas
Quadriptych Of Fruits, Pocket Sloes, Strawberry, Wild Apple, Pocket Raspberry
By Dani Humberstone
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Crimson Strawberry is an original oil painting by Dani Humberstone as part of her Pocket Painting series featuring small scale realistic oil paintings, with a nod to baroque s...
Category
2010s Realist Wunderkammer
Materials
Canvas, Oil
H 5.91 in W 5.91 in D 1.97 in
Still life, a plate and apples - Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting, Realistic
By Zbigniew Wozniak
Located in Warsaw, PL
ZBIGNIEW WOZNIAK (b. 1952)
Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw, at the Department of Glass and Ceramics. He is involved in painting, graphics and artistic glass design. He...
Category
Early 2000s Realist Wunderkammer
Materials
Canvas, Oil
H 15.75 in W 19.69 in D 0.79 in
A French Still Life
By Ginny Williams
Located in Wenham, MA
This is an original oil painting on linen canvas by Ginny Williams. This still life uses colors from the French flag as its color palette, and an image of the famous "Odalisque" pain...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Wunderkammer
Materials
Oil, Panel
Woman Lying Down on White Cloth - Oil Painting - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Woman Lying Down on White Cloth is an artwork realized by an Italian Artist in mid-20th Century.
Oil on cardboard
24x34 cm.
Good conditions.
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Wunderkammer
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
H 9.45 in W 13.39 in D 0.2 in
triptych of Pocket Speckled Green Pear, Bright Clementine, Crimson Strawberry 2c
By Dani Humberstone
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Bright Clementine is an original oil painting by Dani Humberstone as part of her Pocket Painting series featuring small scale realistic oil paintings, with a nod to baroque st...
Category
2010s Realist Wunderkammer
Materials
Canvas, Oil
H 5.91 in W 5.91 in D 0.99 in
White Roses in a Glass-original realism still life painting-contemporary Art
By Tobias Harrison
Located in London, Chelsea
Tobias Harrison's "Roses in a Glass" invites viewers into a world of understated beauty and timeless elegance. At the heart of the composition, three pristine white roses stand tall ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Wunderkammer
Materials
Oil, Board
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