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Still-life Paintings For Sale
Brian William - Contemporary Oil, Nasturtiums on the Bistro Table
Located in Corsham, GB
Contemporary, oil on canvas. Signed and dated '24.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Flowers Turning in the Sky, " Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Robin Hextrum's (US based) "Flowers Turning in the Sky" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a floral bouquet with a variety of Peonies, Carnations, grapes, fruit and o...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Colorful vase by Jean Krillé - Oil on wood 92x65 cm
By Jean Krille
Located in Geneva, CH
Of Germanic descent, the painter Jean Krillé was born in 1923 in Switzerland. His father, writer and poet, oriented him towards art and culture. From the age of 16, he enrolled at th...
Category
Late 20th Century Expressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Galatea: Calm Seas- (folding screen)
Located in Burlingame, CA
Breathtaking ocean scene, 'Galatea: Calm Seas' on a folding Japanese screen' 2022
oil on a Japanese screen, 24 x 48 inches, Deep blue water with filtered ear...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
14th Street (Photo-Realist Oil Painting of Classic NYC Brick Building)
Located in Hudson, NY
Photo-realist oil painting of a classic brick building exterior in New York City
28 x 50 inches, oil on canvas painting
Wire backing for easy hanging
Unframed with white painted sides
This contemporary, realistic oil painting of a New York City brick building exterior was painted by Richard Britell in 2019. Employing his mastery of the troupe l'oeil technique, Britell paints the smooth red colored stone building in extreme detail assuming a three-dimensional quality with close attention paid to shadow and perspective. This building is reminiscent of neo-classical architecture, popularized in the mid-late 1800's and the striking red exterior contrasts against the white stone window trim, further accentuating the painting's troupe l'oeil qualities. The painting on canvas is complete with wire on reverse for seamless hanging.
About the artist:
Richard Britell, a career painter, studied at Pratt Institute with Philip Pearlstein and Walter Erlebacher. His first show in NYC at Staempfli Gallery was sold out, and reviewed in the New York Times. Britell’s new works revolve around large, dreamy cityscapes tending toward abstraction. The artist currently lives in Pittsfield, MA.
Born Utica, New York, 1944
Education
1962 – 1964 Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
1964 – 1966 Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY B.F.A.
1970 – 1972 University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, M.F.A.
Solo Exhibitions
2011 “Measuring the Universe” Lauren Clark Fine Art, Housatonic, MA
2010 “And Now For Some things Completely Different”
Lauren Clark Fine Art, Housatonic, MA
2010 “The Figure, The Figure, The Figure and The Figure”
Lauren Clark Fine Art, Housatonic, MA
2009 “A nest of robins in her hair” Lauren Clark Fine Art, Housatonic, MA
2007 “NY, NY” Lauren Clark Fine Art, Housatonic, Ma
2003 “Image and Text” Tokonoma Gallery, Housatonic, MA
1999 “From Architecture to Abstraction” Tokonoma Gallery, Housatonic, MA
1998 “New Work” Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY
1998 “New Figures” Ute Stebich Gallery, Lenox, MA
1995 “Richard Britell, New Work” Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery, New York, NY
1993 “New Work on Gilded Panel” Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York, NY
1985 “Fresco Panels...
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil, Wood Panel
Ritual (2022) oil, linen, impressionist hot pink interiors, bathtub, candlelight
Located in Jersey City, NJ
"Ritual is an original oil painting on linen measuring 30" high x 24" wide x 1.25" deep by Ekaterina Popova, founder of Create Magazine. She uses vibrant, saturated pigments in her serene and inviting candlelit bath scene...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Mediterranean Architecture, Landscape Oil Painting, Signed and Dated
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Mediterranean Architecture, Landscape Oil Painting, Signed and Dated
By Spanish artist, Mid 20th Century
Signed and dated '54 on the lower l...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Chunli Huang Floral Original Oil Painting "Bunch Of Flowers"
Located in New York, NY
Title: Bunch Of Flowers
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 20 x 24 inches
Frame: Framing options available!
Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition.
Note: This pa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$519 Sale Price
35% Off
Fine Antique British Botannical Watercolour Painting, circa 1900
s
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
A very fine original antique English botanical watercolour painting depicting this beautiful depiction of a flower/ plant. The work came to us from a private collection in Surrey, England and had been part of an album of works assembled by the artist during the early 1900's.
During the Victorian and Edwardian era in Britain, it was very fashionable for ladies of aristocratic and wealthy backgrounds to draw and paint still lifes of flowers and plants that they had picked or seen in gardens. Many were highly accomplished and extremely talented artists, who sadly were not encouraged to exhibit due to society frowning upon such activities.
Artist/ School: Caroline Worsley...
Category
Early 20th Century Victorian Still-life Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Beach Huts, Nautical Landscape, French Impressionist Original Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Beach Huts, Nautical Landscape, French Original Oil Painting
French schooled artist, 20th Century
Oil painting on thin card/paper, unframed
Card size: 9 x 15 inches
Delightful Frenc...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage Portrait of Red Headed Woman with Yellow Roses
Located in Soquel, CA
A lovely vintage portrait of a woman in a floral dress by Patricia Emrich Gillfillan (American, 1924-2016). From a collection of her works. Unsigned. Unframed. Image, 16"H x 20"W.
P...
Category
1980s American Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sydney Licht "Still Life with Plant" Oil on Linen
By Sydney Licht
Located in New York, NY
Remnants of our consumer culture keep finding their way into my work. Our visual lives are cluttered with packages, clothing and furnishings that come at us in a swirl of color and p...
Category
2010s Abstract Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Red Tulip . original painting
Located in Zofingen, AG
This mixed media painting is inspired by the photograph "Tulip" by American photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. It depicts a perfect red tulip against a red backdrop, rendered in oil o...
Category
2010s Pop Art Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Lemons and Limes
, Contemporary Still Life Painting with Porcelain and Fruit
Located in Utrecht, NL
When you look at this painting ''Lemons and Limes" by Dutch artist Sasja Wagenaar (1959) from a distance you see a perfectly painted image, but up close a generous paint streak is vi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Blue Teapot and Roses, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist John Jaster paints a realistic still life of a teapot and flowers. White roses blossom, some with open petals and some still in their colorful buds. Th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
In the eyes of the beholder
Located in Zofingen, AG
In the eyes of the beholder " is a still life with an apple in the style of symbolism.
Oil painting by Lilia Volskaya. Size: 50x40cm.
Frame size: 55x45cm.
Each of us is faced with ...
Category
2010s Surrealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,142 Sale Price
40% Off
Flowers on the window
Located in Zofingen, AG
In this oil painting, I poured my soul into capturing the transient beauty of blossoms basking in sunlight by a window. Each stroke embodies the dance between shadow and light, the d...
Category
2010s Expressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
Western Still Life with Eastern Landscape
Located in Denver, CO
Robin Hextrum's "Western Still Life with Eastern Landscape" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a realistic still life of Peonies, Irises, Morning glories, and nectari...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Coralcello, richly colorful music themed abstraction
By C. Dimitri
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The artist began this painting in 2010. Oil and resin on wood panel. Dedicated to David Lynch and coral reefs.
Rich brushwork in image of stringed musical instrument within the abst...
Category
2010s Abstract Still-life Paintings
Materials
Resin, Mixed Media, Oil, Wood Panel
Pretty in Pink- 21st Century Still-life painting, Pink Peonies in a Square Vase
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Erik van Elven is a modern painter with a romantic and impressionistic style. Both his brushstrokes and use of color are fresh and done in a fluid way.
Erik started years ago to pa...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"Colorful Valley, Canyon de Chelly" By Billyo O
Donnell, Oil Landscape
Located in Denver, CO
"Above the Junction, Canyon de Chelly" (2023) is a beautiful original impressionist oil landscape done by Billyo O'Donnell.
Artist Biography and Statement:
"I am focused on the vis...
Category
2010s Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Floral Symphony, 1936 by Rackstad Group Artist Ture Ander
Located in Stockholm, SE
Ture Ander (1881-1959) Sweden
Floral Symphony, 1936
oil on board
signed and dated Ture Ander 36
board dimensions 24,41 x 18,90 inches (62 x 48 cm)
frame 2...
Category
1930s Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
View of Bass Rock
By Mike Hall
Located in London, GB
Artist Statement, “My career in Film and Television design enabled me to travel extensively in Europe and the West Indies.
During these projects I was able to draw and paint many of...
Category
2010s Abstract Still-life Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Irina Roudakoff Belotelkin "Still Life w/ Artichoke" c.1960s
Located in San Francisco, CA
Irina Roudakoff Belotelkin (Russian / American, 1913-2009)
Stunning "Still Life w/ Artichoke" Oil Painting C.1960s
Brilliant original oil painting by listed Russian / American arti...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Anemones in a glass vase" by Alexandre Rochat - Gouache
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper
Gilded wood frame with glass pane
79 x 60 x 3 cm
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Gouache
$608 Sale Price
82% Off
Bouquet and vase on foot
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper
Gilded wood frame with glass pane
79 x 60 x 2,5 cm
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Gouache
$608 Sale Price
82% Off
20th Century French blue abstract still life
By Maurice Potier
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Maurice Potier (French, 1926 – 2002)
Vase bleu et fruits (Blue vase and fruits)
Oil on canvas
Signed ‘M Potier’ (lower right)
27.1/2 x 23.5/8 in. (70 x 60 cm.)
Category
20th Century Abstract Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Still Life
By Franz Kline
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Provenance
Private Collection (acquired directly from the artist);
Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, Sale #2326, 27 January 1965, Lot 168;
Private Collection (acquired from the abo...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Oil Painting by John J Hall "Pair of Pantry Scenes"
Located in Mere, GB
Oil Painting by John J Hall "Pair of Pantry Scenes" 1921 - 2006 Studio labels verso. Hall went to college of Arts and Crafts and taught at the Cambridge...
Category
1970s Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
$1,619 Sale Price
26% Off
At The Edge Of The Ocean, Original painting, Seascape, Ocean, Nature, Coastal
Located in Deddington, GB
At The Edge of The Ocean is a beautiful realist seascape oil painting, measuring 30 x 30 inches (approx 76 x 76cm). The viewer is looking directly out to sea from the standpoint of t...
Category
2010s Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Still life with lilacs
By Simon Kozhin
Located in Zofingen, AG
I painted this still life in the midst of quarantine due to the pandemic in May, the lilacs were just in bloom, and I have long wanted to paint a still life with lilacs. On the stree...
Category
2010s Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
NYC train-original contemporary impressionism art-cityscape oil painting artwork
Located in London, Chelsea
We offer complimentary worldwide shipping and cover all tariffs and import taxes for this artwork. This exceptional artwork is currently on display and available for sale at Signet C...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Large-Scale Apple Painting by Isaac Monteiro, Signed
Located in New York, NY
Isaac Monteiro (1938-2008)
Apple, 1985
Oil on canvas
36 x 48 in.
Framed: 37 1/2 x 49 x 1 1/4 in.
Signed lower left: I Monteiro
Inscribed verso: Apple I Monteir...
Category
1980s Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Oil Painting Framed Fruit Table Still Life Pineapple Strawberry
Located in Buffalo, NY
Incredible early American realist still life featuring pineapple and strawberries on a table. Oil on canvas. Incredible detail and masterfully painted.
Signed illegibly, last n...
Category
1890s American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,196 Sale Price
20% Off
John Whitlock Codner RWA (1913-2008) - Framed Oil, Still Life on a Silver Tray
By John Whitlock Codner
Located in Corsham, GB
This vibrant still life painting by John Whitlock Codner RWA (1913-2008) captures a sumptuous array of fruits, glassware, and porcelain arranged on a silver tray. Signed to the lower...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Green River
By Peter Loftus
Located in Burlingame, CA
‘Green River’ oil painting by American Realist artist Peter Loftus, who is known for captivating breathtaking color-rich nature scenes through shadow and light in his oil on canvas p...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Floral Invention #4 -Oil On Canvas Painting By Marc Zimmerman
Located in Carmel, CA
This masterwork is exhibited in the Zimmerman Gallery, Carmel CA.
Marc Zimmerman creates playful paintings, whether deep mysterious jungle or delightfully whimsical florals. His co...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$3,920 Sale Price
20% Off
Cecile Hertz-Eyrolles (1875-1974) - Mid 20th Century Oil, Echinacea and Lilies
Located in Corsham, GB
An expressive, gestural study depicting summer flowers in a tall vase. Signed. Studio stamp to the lower left. Presented in a distressed gilt frame. There is a second still life stud...
Category
20th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Rev. C. W. Hopkins - Framed Mid 20th Century Oil, Still Life of Yellow Flowers
Located in Corsham, GB
Full of natural light and movement, this spritely still life depicts yellow Rudbeckia opening up inside a terracotta jug. Unsigned. Well presented in a handsome shabby chic frame. On...
Category
Mid-20th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Still Life Lemon and Peach, Fruit, Oil Painting
By J.B. Holmes
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Still Life, Fruit, Oil Painting
By J.B.Holmes, British artist, 20th Century
Oil painting on board, unframed
Board size: 10x12 inches
Still life painting of fruit, using a delightfu...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Still Life I. Contemporary Abstract Oil Painting
Located in Brecon, Powys
Oil on board, well framed
Signed
Image 16" x 20"
Framed 20" x 24"
Category
2010s Abstract Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Soft Light / a realist oil painting celebrating natures abstract qualities
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Soft Light' from Stephanie Peek, who makes her home in California, is beautifully rendered with a sense of depth, intellect, timelessness, and mystery. An elegant painting referencing dried eucalyptus leaves that the artist piled up in her studio and studied under a variety of natural and man-made lights and times of day/evening. oil on panel with natural alabaster ground into the pigments. Peek has floated tulips, roses and other flowers and leaves from 17th century still life paintings through the dark smoky atmosphere of her paintings of night...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"Porch Patterns" colorful oil painting, inviting interior w paned windows framed
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Kelly Carmody (b. 1977, Massachusetts) Rooted in realism, Carmody’s compositions start very traditional in subject and composition; however, she further transforms her skilled hand b...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Insalata / realism still life oil tomatoes in kitchen
By Mimi Jensen
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Insalata' featuring tomatoes on a kitchen counter with olive oil in glass bottles, salt and a chalk board by artist Mimi Jensen, who uses bold colors to depict theatrically lit obje...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Linen, Oil
Loquats
Chinese Bowl
Contemporary photorealist still life painting, yellow
Located in Shrewsbury, Shropshire
Contemporary Still Life Painting 'Loquats & Chinese Bowl' by Barbara Vanhove. Inspired by the Dutch Masters.
Barbara was born in Watermael-Boisfort in Belgium in 1974. She showed an...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Abstract II. Contemporary Abstract Oil Painting
Located in Brecon, Powys
Oil on board, well framed
Signed
Image 16" x 20"
Framed 20" x 24"
Category
2010s Abstract Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Pocket Conker [2023], Baroque Still Life Painting, Food Art, Autumn art
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Conker [2023] 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 sti...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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"Oranges and China Frog" (2018) By Linda Tracey Brandon, Original Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Linda Tracey Brandon's (US based) "Oranges and China Frog" is an oil painting that depicts seven Oranges sitting on a white tablecloth with a gree...
Category
2010s Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Big Bear in Red - Abstract Candy Gummy Bear Still Life Food Painting on Paper
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Columbus, Georgia (USA) based artist Kellie Newsome specializes in dynamic and abstracted still-life artworks. Her expressive style emphasizes line structure, creating vibrant painti...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Color Pencil
Water
s Descent II
By Peter Loftus
Located in Burlingame, CA
‘Water's Descent II’ oil painting by American Realist artist Peter Loftus, who is known for captivating breathtaking color-rich nature scenes through shadow and light in his oil on c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"First Bloom From the Ashes" Flower and Fire Imagery by Graham Franciose
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "First Bloom From the Ashes" is an original piece by Graham Franciose, and is made from watercolor on panel mounted Rives BFK cotton rag, wax sealed, custom Douglas...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Wax, Watercolor, Wood Panel, Paper
French school - late 19th century - Still life with pomegranates
Located in PARIS, FR
French school, late 19th century
Still life with pomegranates
Oil on canvas
32.6 x 45.5 cm (45.7 x 54 cm with frame)
Good condition, little accidents on the frame
Category
19th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
White peonies
Located in Zofingen, AG
The contrast of the white against the dark background and subtle light on peonies attracted me together with the focus on color harmony. The style of the painting is inspired by the ...
Category
2010s Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Impressionistic Impasto Painting Blue Stack Mountains Donegal Northern Ireland
Located in Preston, GB
Impressionistic Impasto Painting of Cottage on Blue Stack Mountains in Donegal Northern Ireland, by 20th Century Artist Jim Holmes
Art measures 12 x...
Category
Early 2000s Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Board, Cotton Canvas, Oil
Jim HolmesImpressionistic Impasto Painting Blue Stack Mountains Donegal Northern Ireland, 2000 Circa
$1,047 Sale Price
20% Off
Fig Green Pocket Painting 3c
4c, Set of 2, original painting, still-life
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Green Fig 3c 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 still l...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Winter Study #4
By M
fanwy Dean
Located in Denver, CO
Winter Study #4, 2020
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Panel
$148 Sale Price
20% Off
Summer Flowers - Impressionist Still Life Flowers Oil by Dorothea Sharp
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed oil on canvas still life circa 1920 by English impressionist painter Dorothea Sharp. The stunning piece depicts a beige ceramic vase filled with summer flowers of lilies and d...
Category
1920s Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Still Life with Bottles and Books - Oil Painting - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Still Life with bottles and books is an artwork with frame, realized by an unknown artist of mid-20th Century.
Oil on panel.
36 x 51 cm ; 56 x 70 cm with framed.
Good condtions
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"Vintage Beauties, " Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Suchitra Bhosle's "Vintage Beauties" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a vase of white, pink and red roses with a gray background.
Abo...
Category
2010s Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Nude. A sitter - Figurative Oil Realistic painting, Interior, Female
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 painting at the studio of prof. Janusz Matuszewski.
Selected achievements:
2019 - Award of the Rector of the University of Rzeszów
2019 - Scholarship of the Rector of the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow
2020 - Finalist of the Polish National Painting Competition Leon Wyczółkowski...
Category
2010s Naturalistic Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Shop Still-Life Paintings on 1stDibs
Still-life paintings work as part of the decor in nearly every type of 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, still-life paintings frequently 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 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 and plants that were the subject of their work.
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.
While early examples were primarily figurative, you can find still lifes that belong to different schools and styles of painting, such as Cubism, Impressionism and contemporary art.
As part of the wall decor in your living room, dining room or elsewhere, a still-life painting can look sophisticated alongside your well-curated decorative objects and can help set the mood in a space.
When shopping for a still-life painting, 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, find a collection of still-life paintings in a wide range of styles and subject matter.