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Contemporary Still-life Paintings

CONTEMPORARY STYLE

Used to refer to a time rather than an aesthetic, Contemporary art generally describes pieces created after 1970 or being made by living artists anywhere in the world. This immediacy means it encompasses art responding to the present moment through diverse subjects, media and themes. Contemporary painting, sculpture, photography, performance, digital art, video and more frequently includes work that is attempting to reshape current ideas about what art can be, from Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s use of candy to memorialize a lover he lost to AIDS-related complications to Jenny Holzer’s ongoing “Truisms,” a Conceptual series that sees provocative messages printed on billboards, T-shirts, benches and other public places that exist outside of formal exhibitions and the conventional “white cube” of galleries.

Contemporary art has been pushing the boundaries of creative expression for years. Its disruption of the traditional concepts of art are often aiming to engage viewers in complex questions about identity, society and culture. In the latter part of the 20th century, contemporary movements included Land art, in which artists like Robert Smithson and Michael Heizer create large-scale, site-specific sculptures, installations and other works in soil and bodies of water; Sound art, with artists such as Christian Marclay and Susan Philipsz centering art on sonic experiences; and New Media art, in which mass media and digital culture inform the work of artists such as Nam June Paik and Rafaël Rozendaal.

The first decades of the 21st century have seen the growth of Contemporary African art, the revival of figurative painting, the emergence of street art and the rise of NFTs, unique digital artworks that are powered by blockchain technology.

Major Contemporary artists practicing now include Ai Weiwei, Cecily Brown, David Hockney, Yayoi Kusama, Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami and Kara Walker.

Find a collection of Contemporary prints, photography, paintings, sculptures and other art on 1stDibs.

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Style: Contemporary
Pomegranate Tableau Chiaroscuro Pocket Painting, original painting
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Chiaroscuro Pomegranate Tableau is an original oil painting by Dani Humberstone as part of her Pocket painting series featuring small scale realistic oil paintings, with a nod...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Clutter- 21st Century Contemporary Still-life painting with cutter plug
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
This still-life is made by Dutch painter Erik Zwaga. The painter started in the style of the romantic school, Erik Zwaga began to search more and more for his own visual language...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Oil, Wood Panel

Viridian with Dark Pewter - small dark green, teal, white, floral still life oil
Located in Bloomfield, ON
A ground of viridian green frames an iconic bouquet of cerise and white in this classic oil on panel by Jennifer Hornyak. Framed dimensions are 14.25 x 18.25 inches. Inspired by Ge...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Oil, Panel

Jam Doughnut Pocket Painting 2c, Still life, Sweet Original
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Jam Doughnut 2c 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 stil...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Judas Medal- 21st Century Still-life painting of a tin with dry Judas Medal
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
This still-life is made by Dutch painter Erik Zwaga. The painter started in the style of the romantic school, Erik Zwaga began to search more and more for his own visual language...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Oil, Wood Panel

Pomegranate Pinky Red Pocket Painting, oil paint, still life
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Pinky Red Pomegranate (canvas size 7.5x7.5cm) is an original oil painting by Dani Humberstone as part of her Pocket Painting series featuring small scale realistic oil paintin...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Fig Green Pocket Painting 3c, 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...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Talavera Composition 1
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Talavera Composition 1' by master watercolorist Gary Bukovnik, who fuses sensual vitality with fluid yet powerful colorations to create floral images of great depth, intensity, and ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Swan Vase - Lake Landscape Peach Flowers Still Life Green Pine Trees, 2016
Located in Kent, CT
A contemporary painting in oil on canvas of a light and inviting interior scene with an arrangement of pale pink flowers in a clear glass vase next to canary yellow and green and whi...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Local Blooms - Framed Abstract Colorful Still Life Mixed Media Artwork on Canvas
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Dynamic and abstracted still-life artworks are the specialty of Georgia-based artist Kellie Newsome. Her work is characterized by a loose and expressive style emphasizing line struct...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Color Pencil

Field and Orchard (Land and Skyscape with Open Field and Dark Treeline)
Located in Hudson, NY
Field and Orchard (Land and Skyscape with Open Field and Dark Treeline) by David Konigsberg 2025, oil on panel, 23.5 x 24 inches Konigsberg is a conceptual realist who works across ...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Oil, Panel

White Hydrangea in Chinese Jug - 21st Century Contemporary Oil Painting
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Ingrid Smuling (1944) White Hydrangea in Chinese Jug Oil on canvas 25 × 25 cm (framed 33 × 33 cm, included in price) This serene contemporary still life ...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Oil

Sumach Moon - blue, orange, trees, moon, graphic, pop-art, landscape, acrylic
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Charles Pachter returns to the Canadian wilderness for this painting. The internationally recognized pop artist has chosen to celebrate the sumach, a tree that is native to North America. Pachter’s sumach frames an orange harvest moon which appears in the fall. Farmers often use the light of this full moon to harvest their crops late into the night. Pachter’s moon is small and distant and the thin line of a lake and mountain in the background give the painting a greater depth of perspective. A painter, printmaker, sculptor, designer and author Pachter is a graduate of University of Toronto...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Plum Juicy Purple Pocket Painting , original painting, contemporary
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Rusty Wild Pear 2 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...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Oil

"Fruit Bowl" - Colorful Contemporary Still Life Fruit Painting with Earth Tones
Located in Carmel, CA
Penny Whent (American, born 1949) "Fruit Bowl" 2005 Acrylic Paint, Canvas Board The artist signed the bottom left of the painting. Framed: 29" x 33" x 1.25" “Fruit Bowl” by Penny W...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic, Board

Clustered Objects. Still life Painting
Located in Miami Beach, FL
When an artist works with more conventional still life subjects, they focus primarily on the formal properties of the painting, such as color relationships, form, proportions, and ot...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

No Name 55, Mixed Media Painting on Linen
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 ...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil

Someone / Never Met
Located in Burlingame, CA
A portrait of a man. Acrylic on paper 14 x 11 inches unframed and 15 x 12 inches framed, Part of the artist's new Face to Face series started in 2017 and featuring real and imagined ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Paper, Acrylic

Nude Model - Oil Painting - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Nude Model is an original modern artwork realied by Artist of the mid-20th Century. Mixed colored oil painting. Signature of the artist on the lower margin. Fair conditions due to...
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Mid-20th Century Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Oil

Face No. 103, 2018
Located in Burlingame, CA
A face in multi colors, including mainly bone with red, grey and white. Acrylic painting on paper is 14 x 11 inches. Part of the artist's new series begun in 2017 of anonymous face...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Paper, Acrylic

Lime Pocket Clementine, Set of 2, original painting, still-life, nature
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Lime 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 life p...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Iterative" Construction Equipment and Flowers in City Landscape by Max Seckel
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Iterative" is an original artwork by Max Seckel is made of flashe, acrylic, and spray paint on canvas. This piece measures 8”h x 5.75”w x 1.75”d framed, is signed ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Spray Paint, Acrylic

Anemone White Pocket Painting, original painting, still-life, contemporary
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket White Anemone (canvas size 5x5cm) is an original oil painting by Dani Humberstone as part of her Pocket painting series featuring small scale realistic oil paintings, with a n...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Pocket Juicy Plum with Oil Paint on Canvas, Painting by Dani Humberstone
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Juicy Plum 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 lif...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Canvas

Daisy Still Life, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
"A solitary deep pink daisy in an antique cup paired with a dried flower seed pod found on the path of my afternoon walk," shares artist Nicole Lamothe...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Oil

Blackbird s Egg Greenish Pocket Painting
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Greenish Blackbird's Egg 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 bar...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Bronzes” Figurative Painting 5" x 7" inch by Katherine Bakhoum Tisné
Located in Culver City, CA
"Bronzes” Figurative Painting 5" x 7" inch by Katherine Bakhoum Tisné Medium: pastel on collage Katherine Bakhoum represents art that has been forgotten for a long while. She draws...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Oil Pastel, Mixed Media

Cherries Dark Pocket Painting 2c, original painting, contemporary
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Dark Cherries 2c 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 sti...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Oil

Oyster Lemon, Original painting, Food art, Seafood, Mediterranean
Located in Deddington, GB
This contemporary still-life depicts a fresh and vibrant oyster with a slice of lemon on blue and white Mediterranean tiles. This box canvas is part of my MINI Tiles series, and is r...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Egg Blackbird s Yellow Greenish Pocket Painting 4c, original painting
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Blackbird's Yellow Greenish Egg 4c (canvas size 5x5cm) is an original oil painting by Dani Humberstone as part of her Pocket painting series featuring small scale realistic oi...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Garden of Abstraction By Marc Zimmerman
Located in Carmel, CA
A floral, but instead of a vase it finds itself in a jungle setting. Rich reds weave amongst the large green leaves and white flowers creating fullness for this tropical jungle Flor...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Tulips in a Bowl
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Tulips in a Bowl'. Watercolor on paper. Original artwork measuring 31 1/2 x 24 3/4 inches. Professionally framed., 38 x 41 inches. Gary Bukovnik fuses sensual vitality with fluid y...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Pocket Sloes [2023], Baroque Still Life Painting, Food Art, Small art
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Sloes [2023] 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...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Pocket Peacock Butterfly 2, Original painting, Still life, Butterfly, Insect
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Peacock Butterfly 2 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 ...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Pride and Prejudice, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Delicate blue flowers bloom from a central stem, painted with soft gradients and fine detail. Their organic shapes complement the structure of handwritten text ...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

“Zura Original ‘12 Chairs’ Artwork — Bold Primitivist Style
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Twelve Chairs revisits the visual language of 1920s modernism. With bold, simplified lines and a graphic immediacy reminiscent of drawing, Zura evokes the era’s spirit of primitivism...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Very Shiny Very Red Apple
Located in Deddington, GB
Very Shiny Very Red Apple is an original oil painting by Dani Humberstone as part of her series of realistic oil paintings of fruit with a nod to baroque still life painting. The pai...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

American School Still Life Painting Study of Citrus Fruits
Located in San Rafael, CA
American School (20th c.) Still Life Study of Citrus Fruits Oil on canvas Unframed 18in H x 24in W This charming still-life study of lemons, oranges and other citrus exhibits wonder...
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Oil

Abstract expressive floral acrylic painting on paper "Summer flowers of joy""
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
This abstract expressive artwork, "Summer Flowers of Joy," by French artist Natalya Mougenot, is part of her Floral series. Natalya enjoys working in a single, uninterrupted session ...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Paper, Acrylic

Ce qui demeure — Abstract Library, Minimalism, Oil Painting, Contemporary, 2026
Located in LANGRUNE-SUR-MER, FR
Oil on canvas – 54 x 65 cm (21.3 x 25.6 in) Framed dimensions: 61 x 72 cm (24 x 28.3 in) Framed in natural wood or black floater frame (your choice) Signed – Certificate of authentic...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Oil

Fleurs d abricot - contemporary, floral, still-life, oil on panel
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This contemporary, floral, still-life oil painting is reminiscent of the great Fauvist artists such as Matisse. As a young artist, Jennifer Hornyak appreciated the distinctive colo...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Landscape Study 251 - Original Moody Grey Mixed Media Painting on Canvas Paper
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Jodi Miller captivates with her atmospheric landscapes, inspired by the vast skies of her prairie upbringing and her global travels in the Royal Canadian Air Force. Influenced by the...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Paper, Acrylic, Graphite

Coffee Peloton XXXVIII, Coffee Art, Cycling Art, Sports Art, Figurative Painting
Located in Deddington, GB
Coffee Peloton XXXVIII is an original coffee on paper drawing by artist Eliza Southwood. This piece is a part of Eliza's coffee peloton series which combines the love of cycling with...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Paper, Coffee

"Wanderer 17" Collaged Papers with Pastel, Acrylic and Graphite on Wood
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece, titled "Wanderer 17" is an original artwork by Seth Clark as part of his newest solo exhibition, "Passing Through". made of collage, charcoal, pastel, acrylic, and graphi...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Wood, Paper, Charcoal, Pastel, Acrylic, Graphite

Lily Study III
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Lily Study III' by master watercolorist Gary Bukovnik, who fuses sensual vitality with fluid yet powerful colorations to create floral images of great depth, intensity, and size. I...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Lightbulb - 21st Century Contemporary Dutch Stilllife painting of Peony Roses
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Erik van Elven Lightbulb 50 x 70 cm Framing options available This painting is by Dutch Impressionist painter Erik van Elven. This young artist likes to paint in the style of the...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Oil, Panel

"Vertical Spheres"
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
John Schieffer graduated in 1995 from Paier College of Art in Hamden, Connecticut with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. The salutatorian entered the world of illustration at Mercer Ma...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Oil, Wood Panel

"Candy Stash" Oil Painting
Located in Boca Raton, FL
A stunning original oil painting in the style of Contemporary Realism. Translucent candies scattered among shiny foil wrapping; all the icons new and old.. A symphony of light, colo...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Oil

Landscape Study 256 - Original Moody Serene Mixed Media Painting on Canvas Paper
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Jodi Miller captivates with her atmospheric landscapes, inspired by the vast skies of her prairie upbringing and her global travels in the Royal Canadian Air Force. Influenced by the...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Paper, Acrylic, Graphite

Jammie Dodger Pocket Painting 4c, original painting, still-life
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Jammie Dodger 4c (canvas size 5x5cm) is an original oil painting by Dani Humberstone as part of her Pocket Painting series featuring small scale realistic oil paintings, with ...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Well... Shit." Watercolor Landscape With Volcano Eruption
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Well... Shit." is an original piece by Graham Franciose, and is made from watercolor on panel mounted Rives BFK cotton rag, wax sealed, custom Douglas Fir frame. T...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Wax, Watercolor, Wood Panel, Paper

Red Anemones
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Red Anemones'. Watercolor on paper measuring 22 1/2 x 14 1/4 inches. Currently unframed. Gary Bukovnik fuses sensual vitality with fluid yet powerful colorations to create floral im...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Beach with Three Figures
Located in Burlingame, CA
Beach with Three Figures - The painting was created in 2020 by celebrated American realist artist Willard Dixon, who has captured the undeniable beauty of the west for the past 35 ye...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Lucky Four - Modern Cool Tone Abstract Folk Art Inspired Painting on Raw Canvas
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Meredith Walker's "Lucky Four" is a captivating original artwork that blends geometric abstraction, symbolic surrealism, and contemporary folk art influences into a visually poetic c...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic, Gouache

Floral Arrangement in Gold Vase-original impressionism still life painting-Art
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...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Back Country
Located in Burlingame, CA
Back Country - The painting was created in 2025 by celebrated American realist artist Willard Dixon, who has captured the undeniable beauty of the west for the past 35 years. Dixon’s...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Garlic Strand- 21st Century Contemporary Still-life painting garlic
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
This still-life is made by Dutch painter Erik Zwaga. The painter started in the style of the romantic school, Erik Zwaga began to search more and more for his own visual language...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Oil, Wood Panel

"PB&J stacked sandwiches" Oil Painting
Located in Boca Raton, FL
This original Oil painting of classic peanut butter and jelly sandwiches conjures memories of childhood. The thick smoothness of the peanut butter against the glossy translucent grap...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

Materials

Oil

Spring Collection: Snowdrop 5 with Oil Paint, Painting by Dani Humberstone
Located in Deddington, GB
Spring Collection: Snowdrop 5 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 baroq...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Owl Tawny, original painting, oil paint, still life, nature
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Tawny Owl 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 life...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Contemporary still-life paintings for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Contemporary still-life paintings available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add still-life paintings created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, purple, orange, green and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Jennifer Hornyak, Andrea Stajan-Ferkul, Zhang Wei Guang, and Marc Zimmerman. Frequently made by artists working with Paint, and Oil Paint and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Contemporary still-life paintings, so small editions measuring 1.25 inches across are also available. Prices for still-life paintings made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $102 and tops out at $1,023,500, while the average work sells for $3,010.