Still Life with Peach on Cloth
By David Ligare
Located in New York, NY
Signed and dated (at lower right): L; (on verso): D. Ligare / 2014
Category
2010s Contemporary David Ligare Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
David Ligare Art
American, b. 1945
During a trip to Europe following his graduation from high school, a young David Ligare boldly walked up to the home of artist Salvador Dalí in Port Lligat, Spain, and knocked on the front door. Fortunately for Ligare, the legendary Surrealist was home. Even more fortunate, Dalí agreed to speak with him, and the two spent the afternoon chatting in his studio. Although it’s not known what they discussed, Ligare later became a painter. While his landscapes, still lifes and narrative oil paintings expand upon the realist tradition, the figures in his works are stylized — they’re polished and wholly free of imperfection.
Ligare was born in 1945 in Oak Park, Illinois. At the age of five years old, he moved with his family to California and, in later years, studied at ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena.
In 1978, Ligare’s artistic style took shape after joining a group of artists who were intent on reviving narrative painting during a time dominated by Conceptualism, minimalism and Pop art. An essay fueled Ligare’s decision to base his style on narration by critic and painter Sidney Tillim titled “Notes on Narrative and History Painting,” which appeared in Artforum a year prior. Tillim had explained why narrative art was necessary, stating that “a didactic morality or its equivalent must similarly support and validate what comes down to a new — or renewed — effort to illustrate belief.”
Not only was Ligare inspired by the works of 17th-century painter Nicolas Poussin — a major figure in classical French Baroque art — but he also drew upon Greco-Roman classicism. Greek sculptor Polykleitos, mathematician Pythagoras, and Plato's philosophy and mythology helped shape his ideas of light, balance, symmetry, and harmony. His surroundings also inspired Ligare in Monterey County, California, where he is based — many of his paintings depict the California coast in the background.
Ligare has shown his works extensively, including in exhibitions at the Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, the Fresno Art Museum, the Frye Art Museum in Seattle and the Prince of Wales Institute of Architecture in London. His paintings are part of the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art and the Department of Drawings and Prints of the Uffizi in Florence, Italy.
Find authentic David Ligare paintings on 1stDibs.
to
16
16
13
2
Thrown Drapery (Redux) Study 1
By David Ligare
Located in New York, NY
Signed and dated (at lower right): L; (on verso): D. Ligare / 2004
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary David Ligare Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Offering: Grapes & Fig
By David Ligare
Located in New York, NY
David Ligare (b. 1945) Contemporary American Painter "Offering: Grapes & Fig," 2023 Oil on canvas, 20 x 24 in. Signed and dated (at lower right): L; (on verso): Ligare / 2023
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary David Ligare Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
PERMETTO (To Allow)
By David Ligare
Located in New York, NY
Signed and dated (at lower right): L; (on verso): D. Ligare / 2024
Category
2010s Contemporary David Ligare Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Still Life with Polykleitian Head and Ancathus
By David Ligare
Located in New York, NY
SAPERE AUDE. Dare to be wise. Immanuel Kant’s directive is embodied in the work of David Ligare. For thirty-five years, Ligare has dedicated his work to ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary David Ligare Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Still Life with Apples and Basket
By David Ligare
Located in New York, NY
Signed and dated (at lower right): L; (on verso)" D. Ligare / 2014
Category
2010s Contemporary David Ligare Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
SOLIS (Sunlight)
By David Ligare
Located in New York, NY
Signed and dated (at lower right): L; (on verso): D. Ligare / 2024
Category
2010s Contemporary David Ligare Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
VIRTUS (Virtue)
By David Ligare
Located in New York, NY
Signed (at lower right): L; (on the back): D. Ligare / 2024
Category
2010s Contemporary David Ligare Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Landscape with an Owl (ATHENE NOCTUA) (Owl of Athena)
By David Ligare
Located in New York, NY
Signed (at lower right): L; (on verso): D. Ligare / 2024
Category
2010s Contemporary David Ligare Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Still Life with Figs on Cloth
By David Ligare
Located in New York, NY
SAPERE AUDE. Dare to be wise. Immanuel Kant’s directive is embodied in the work of David Ligare. For thirty-five years, Ligare has dedicated his work to ...
Category
2010s Contemporary David Ligare Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
DISCERE (To Learn)
By David Ligare
Located in New York, NY
Signed (at lower right): L; (on verso): D. Ligare / 2024
Category
2010s Contemporary David Ligare Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Still Life with Box
By David Ligare
Located in New York, NY
Signed (at lower right): L; (on verso): David Ligare
Category
2010s Contemporary David Ligare Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
SCIRE (To Know)
By David Ligare
Located in New York, NY
Signed with initial (at lower right): L
Category
2010s Contemporary David Ligare Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Still Life with Apple on Cloth
By David Ligare
Located in New York, NY
Signed and dated (at lower right): L; (on verso): D. Ligare / 2014
Category
2010s Contemporary David Ligare Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Candle and Flowers
By David Ligare
Located in New York, NY
SAPERE AUDE. Dare to be wise. Immanuel Kant’s directive is embodied in the work of David Ligare. For thirty-five years, Ligare has dedicated his work to ...
Category
2010s Contemporary David Ligare Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
ORDINE NATURAE (The Order of Nature)
By David Ligare
Located in New York, NY
Signed (at lower right): L; (on verso): D. Ligare / 2015
Category
2010s Contemporary David Ligare Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Related Items
Wine Bottles and Fruit on Table
By Zygmund Jankowski
Located in Gloucester, MA
Zygmund Jankowski (1925–2009) painted traditional subjects with exuberant irreverence for traditional rules of color, composition, and perspective. He disparaged imitation and deligh...
Category
1980s Contemporary David Ligare Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Yuriy DemiyanovRussian Contemporary Art by Yuriy Demiyanov - Chrysanthemum, 2012
$1,500
H 19.69 in W 27.56 in D 1.58 in
Russian Contemporary Art by Yuriy Demiyanov - Chrysanthemum
By Yuriy Demiyanov
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas Yuriy Demiyanov is a Russian Impressionist painter born in 1964 in Zadonsk, Lipetsk Oblast. A graduate of the Lipetsk State Pedagogical Institute, he specialized in oi...
Category
2010s Contemporary David Ligare Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Michael Iskowitz"Clowning Around" - Contemporary still life painting, oil on canvas, 2018
$2,800Sale Price|20% Off
H 36 in W 36 in D 0.5 in
"Clowning Around" - Contemporary still life painting, oil on canvas
Located in Nyack, NY
Michael Iskowitz creates colorful, seemingly playful paintings that often belie a more serious message. His process is somewhat spontaneous, fueled by a sense of exploration and disc...
Category
2010s Contemporary David Ligare Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Lemons and Jug
Located in Columbus, OH
The lemons and paper bag in this oil painting exemplify the ease of Kira Mountjoy-Pepka's painterly style. The blue wall on the left was after the painting was finished to add a cool...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary David Ligare Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Daniela AstoneMental Structures- 21st Century Contemporary Still-life Painting, 2021
$12,835
H 43.31 in W 47.25 in D 1.97 in
Mental Structures- 21st Century Contemporary Still-life Painting
By Daniela Astone
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Italian artist Daniela Astone lives and works in Florence. She enjoys working with live models and paints her works from observation, the classical approach she learned at the Academy in Florence and which she now teaches to her students. Daniela Astone graduated in 2004. She had her first solo exhibition shortly afterwards in the United States. Since then, the international attention of the Italian artist has only grown. The classical structure and narrative paintings show a technique that is special. Her style is virtuoso and her subjects are narrative. The keys are loose and subtle. Standing in front of a painting means watching...
Category
2010s Contemporary David Ligare Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Still Life with Plums and Lemons
By David Paulson
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Painted in Paulson’s Brooklyn studio, this still life captures the quiet drama of everyday objects illuminated by northern light. The composition reflects his early tonal period—mark...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary David Ligare Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Still Life with Settee
By Zygmund Jankowski
Located in Gloucester, MA
Zygmund Jankowski (1925–2009) painted traditional subjects with exuberant irreverence for traditional rules of color, composition, and perspective. He disparaged imitation and deligh...
Category
1980s Contemporary David Ligare Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Melanie ParkeEmerald Manner - Contemporary Still Life Flowers Fruit Landscape Green, 2024, 2024
$3,500
H 28 in W 22 in D 1.75 in
Emerald Manner - Contemporary Still Life Flowers Fruit Landscape Green, 2024
By Melanie Parke
Located in Kent, CT
In this contemporary oil painting on canvas, a bright and inviting interior scene is set with a still life arrangement of flowers in a green bottle, painted patterned china and fruit...
Category
2010s Contemporary David Ligare Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Jessica HessJessica Hess, "D.I.E.", Hyper-Realistic Oil Painting of Graffiti Landscape, 2011
$2,000
H 13 in W 24 in
Jessica Hess, "D.I.E.", Hyper-Realistic Oil Painting of Graffiti Landscape
By Jessica Hess
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Original oil painting on canvas by Jessica Hess measuring 13in x 24in. About Jessica Hess: Oakland, CA-based artist Jessica Hess is a hyperreal landscape painter. A graduate of the ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary David Ligare Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Samantha Van Heest«Meet the Queen» Still Life Oil Painting by Samantha Van Heest, 2019
$2,500
H 19.41 in W 25.56 in D 1.38 in
«Meet the Queen» Still Life Oil Painting by Samantha Van Heest
By Samantha Van Heest
Located in Oslo, NO
Samantha Van Heest explores the intimacy of impermanence through her work, utilizing still life, found objects, and portraiture through minimalist r...
Category
2010s Contemporary David Ligare Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
No Name 55, Mixed Media Painting on Linen
By Andrea Gallotti
Located in New York City, NY
Italian painter Andrea Gallotti’s practice is rooted in the quiet rigor of repetition, a deliberate return to a gesture so simple it borders on the childlike, yet so subtle that its ...
Category
2010s Contemporary David Ligare Art
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil
Jessica Hess"Demolition Day", Photorealistic Graffiti Landscape Oil Painting, 2010
$3,300
H 36 in W 26 in
"Demolition Day", Photorealistic Graffiti Landscape Oil Painting
By Jessica Hess
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Original oil painting on canvas by Jessica Hess measuring 36in x 26in. About Jessica Hess: Oakland, CA-based artist Jessica Hess is a hyperreal landscape painter. A graduate of ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary David Ligare Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Previously Available Items
NOVUM INCREMENTUM (New Growth)
By David Ligare
Located in New York, NY
Signed (LR): L; on verso: D. Ligare/ 1988/2024
Category
2010s Contemporary David Ligare Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Offering: Apples & Wheat
By David Ligare
Located in New York, NY
David Ligare (b. 1945) Contemporary American Painter 'Offering: Apples & Wheat,' 2023 Oil on canvas, 20 x 24 in. Signed (at lower right): L; (on back): D. Ligare/ 2023.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary David Ligare Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Still Life with Polykleitian Head and Candles (Idea)
By David Ligare
Located in New York, NY
Signed and dated (at lower right): L; (on verso): D. Ligare / 2018
Category
2010s Contemporary David Ligare Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Still Life with Lilies
By David Ligare
Located in New York, NY
Signed and dated (at lower right): L; (on verso) D. Ligare / 2014.
Category
2010s Contemporary David Ligare Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Still Life with Figs and Rose
By David Ligare
Located in New York, NY
SAPERE AUDE. Dare to be wise. Immanuel Kant’s directive is embodied in the work of David Ligare. For thirty-five years, Ligare has dedicated his work to Classicist ideals: Truth, Bea...
Category
2010s Contemporary David Ligare Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Bulk Order for Eugene Orloff
By David Ligare
Located in New York, NY
SAPERE AUDE. Dare to be wise. Immanuel Kant’s directive is embodied in the work of David Ligare. For thirty-five years, Ligare has dedicated his work to Classicist ideals: Truth, Bea...
Category
2010s Contemporary David Ligare Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Still Life with White Roses in Pot
By David Ligare
Located in New York, NY
SAPERE AUDE. Dare to be wise. Immanuel Kant’s directive is embodied in the work of David Ligare. For thirty-five years, Ligare has dedicated his work to Classicist ideals: Truth, Bea...
Category
2010s Contemporary David Ligare Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Still Life with Figs and Egyptian Pot
By David Ligare
Located in New York, NY
Signed and dated (at lower right): L; (on the verso): D. Ligare / 2017 SAPERE AUDE. Dare to be wise. Immanuel Kant’s directive is embodied in the work of David Ligare. For thirty-fi...
Category
2010s Contemporary David Ligare Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Cane Gatherer (Qanu)
By David Ligare
Located in New York, NY
Signed (at lower left): L
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary David Ligare Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Three Grecian Women
By David Ligare
Located in New York, NY
Signed and dated (at lower left on stone): D. LIGARE. 1983
Category
1980s American Realist David Ligare Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Still Life with Plums and Goldfinch (Aparchai)
By David Ligare
Located in New York, NY
Oil on canvas
Category
David Ligare Art
Integritas
By David Ligare
Located in New York, NY
Oil on canvas, 2015
Category
David Ligare Art
David Ligare art for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic David Ligare art available for sale on 1stDibs. If you’re browsing the collection of art to introduce a pop of color in a neutral corner of your living room or bedroom, you can find work that includes elements of blue and other colors. You can also browse by medium to find art by David Ligare in oil paint, paint, canvas and more. Much of the original work by this artist or collective was created during the 21st century and contemporary and is mostly associated with the contemporary style. Not every interior allows for large David Ligare art, so small editions measuring 8 inches across are available. Customers who are interested in this artist might also find the work of Donald Martiny, Carol O'Malia, and Elliott Green. David Ligare art prices can differ depending upon medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $10,000 and tops out at $103,500, while the average work can sell for $28,000.