Modern Still-life Paintings

Flowers 1985, oil on board, 47x33 cm Laimdots Murnieks has said: "I am a sunny artist. The sun and a woman are the center of the world. It is not for nothing that the sun always c...

This triptych-like lobster still life is only one of four paintings in this format by the artist. It is not a true triptych, as it is one large single canvas with three distinct imag...

Still Life, Bread, Fig and Walnut signed by Jacob Markiel (Polish 1911-2008) *See notes oil on board, unframed board: 17 x 13.5 inches provenance: private collection condition: very...

Warm toned modern cubist abstract still life enhanced giclee painting by Houston, TX artist David Adickes. The work features yellow and red flowers in an abstracted face shaped vase. Signed by the artist in the front upper right corner. Currently hung in a beautiful gold frame. Dimensions Without Frame: H 23.5 in. x W 17.5 in. Artist Biography: Born (1927) and raised in Huntsville, TX, David Adickes is an artist whose art and heart are closely aligned with Paris, France. After studying art at the Atelier F. Leger in the late 40s, Adickes burst onto the art scene in Houston and elsewhere in the early 50s and has been a prominent member of Houston’s art community ever since. While his most visible works are his giant sculptures, from the Virtuoso in downtown Houston...

RED ROWAN BERRIES Size: 42.5 x 35 cm (including frame) Oil on canvas A striking still life painting from 1996, that captures a sprig of vibrant red rowan berries arranged in a deep ...

French School, mid 20th century signed lower front corner oil on board, unframed board: 29.5 x 25.5 inches provenance: private collection, France condition: very good and sound condi...

Deer is an original modern artwork realzied by Paul Wilde (1893-1936) in the early 20th Century. Mixed colored oil and tempera on board. Monogram of the artist on the lower left ma...

CHARLES LEVIER – "LE VASE BLEU" Oil on Canvas ⚜ Signed Lower Right & Verso ⚜ Professionally Framed A RARE MIDCENTURY STILL LIFE WITH HISTORICAL DEPTH A striking floral still life by...

Albert Heckman Untitled, circa 1950 Signed lower right Oil on canvas 18 x 24 inches Albert Heckman was born in Meadville, Western Pennsylvania, 1893. He went to New York City to try his hand at the art world in 1915 after graduating from high school and landing a job at the Meadville Post Office. In 1917, at the age of 24, Heckman enrolled part-time in Teachers' College, Columbia University's Fine Arts Department to begin his formal art education. He worked as a freelance ceramic and textile designer and occasionally as a lecturer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In the early 1920s, at the age of almost 30, he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Columbia Teachers College. He was especially impacted by his instructor at Columbia, Arthur Wesley Dow. After graduating, he was hired by the Teachers' College as a Fine Arts instructor. He stayed with Columbia Teachers' College until 1929, when he left to attend the Leipzig Institute of Graphic Arts in Leipzig, Germany. Isami Doi (1903-1965), who was born in Hawaii, was arguably his most impressive student at Columbia. Doi is now regarded as one of the most prominent artists hailing from Hawaii. Heckman became an active member and officer of the Keramic Society and Design Guild of New York in the 1920s as part of his early commercial art career. The Society's mission was to share knowledge and showcase textile and ceramic design exhibits. In 1922, Heckman married Florence Hardman, a concert violinist. Mrs. Heckman's concert schedule during the 1920s kept Albert and Florence Heckman apart for a significant portion of the time, but they spent what little time they had together designing and building their Woodstock, New York, summer house and grounds. A small house and an acre of surrounding land on Overlook Mountain, just behind the village of Woodstock, were purchased by Albert and Florence Heckman at the time of their marriage. Their Woodstock home, with its connections, friendships, and memories, became a central part of their lives over the years, even though they had an apartment in New York City. Heckman's main artistic focus shifted to the house on Overlook Mountain and the nearby towns and villages, Kingston, Eddyville, and Glasco. After returning from the Leipzig Institute of Graphic Arts in 1930, Mr. Heckman joined Hunter College as an assistant professor of art. He worked there for almost thirty years, retiring in 1956. Throughout his tenure at Hunter, Mr. Heckman and his spouse spent the summers at their Woodstock residence and the winters in New York City. They were regular and well-known guests at the opera and art galleries in New York. Following his retirement in 1956, the Heckmans settled in Woodstock permanently, with occasional trips to Florida or Europe during the fall and winter. Mr. Heckman's close friends and artistic career were always connected to Woodstock or New York City. He joined the Woodstock art group early on and was greatly influenced by artists like Paul and Caroline Rohland, Emil Ganso, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Andre Ruellan, and her husband, Jack...

Mid-century tablescape in orange, oil on canvas on board, presented in a custom built red wooden caisse, by Italian artist Matilde Sacchi. Sacchi is a 20th century artist known for ...

Perched of clay and glass, acrylic on canvas Dimensions in centimeters (H) 60 x (W) 120 x (D) 2 cm. In inches: (H) 23.62 x (W) 47.24 The elements of this still life seem to pose im...

NORDIC TABLE SETTING Watercolour on paper Size: 60.5 x 82 cm (including frame) A finely detailed 20th century large watercolour still life that captures a traditional Nordic feast l...

Vintage American modernist still life oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Provenance from a Sag Harbor, NY collection. Measuring: 21 by 29 inches overall. Handsomely framed in whi...

Tamara De Lempicka 1898-1980 Polish Raisins et oranges Signed "Lempicka" (lower right) Oil on canvas This charming still life by Art Deco icon Tamara de Lempicka epitomizes the a...

Mid century oil painting on canvas with an adept use of bold colors and a joyous spirit. The Classic still life genre re-invented over century is well represented here as a modernist...

Still Life objects by Maurice Delavier (French 1902-1986) oil painting on board, 15 x 18 inches condition: good and original though there are areas of paint loss and scuffing. prov...

Original Painting Published Fortune Mag Cover 1935 Jewels Jewelry Illustration Antonio Petruccelli (1907 – 1994) Fortune cover published, Decembe...

Red Tulips, 1987, oil on canvas, signed and dated verso, 40 x 34 inches, exhibited: Marina Stern Venice – New Works, Forum Gallery, New York, N.Y., from March 4 to April 1, 1989 (label verso) Marina Stern was a multifaceted New York-based artist whose works ranged from Expressionism and Pop Art to the Neo Immaculate paintings and pastels for which she is best known. A native of Venice, Stern and her family fled in 1939 to escape Italy’s repressive racial laws. After living in England for several years, the family arrived in the United States in 1941. A bright and capable student, Stern graduated from New York’s Julia Richman High School at age 15 and soon enrolled in the Pratt Institute to pursue an interdisciplinary education in the arts. Despite majoring in advertising design, Stern favored her fine art courses. She graduated from Pratt in 1946 at age 18 and began working for advertising agencies. After a brief marriage which ended in divorce, Stern married her second husband, who encouraged the artist to study at the Art Students League of New York, under the renowned Japanese American modernist, Yasuo Kuniyoshi. In Fall 1953, Stern gave birth to her first child, Michael, as she continued to study at the Arts Students League. Later in the Spring of 1957, Stern gave birth to her daughter Nina, as she continued to balance motherhood with her fine art practice and commercial art and design work. Stern’s first significant exhibitions were in 1962 at the Waverly Gallery and the Osgood Gallery, both in New York, followed by inclusion of her work in the Bertha Schaefer Traveling Collage Show from 1963 to 1964. Stern made a splash in the avant-garde art world in 1964 when Time magazine reviewed a show at Amel Gallery which featured three of her audio-visual paintings. Time’s critic noted that Stern created the “cleverest noisemakers” in the exhibition. Time dubbed this work “Talkie Pop,” a label which Stern rejected. Following this recognition, Stern was selected for inclusion in The New American Realism at the Worcester Art Museum—a major showcase of leading artists, including Andy Warhol, Robert Indiana, Roy Lichtenstein, and Jasper Johns. After the Worcester exhibition, Stern began to shift away from her “talking” Pop paintings to mysterious, interior scenes with orange, blue or black walls with windows or doors rising above black and white floors, often depopulated, but sometimes with figures. One of these works, Seven Minus Twenty-One Equals Seven, entered the permanent collection of New York’s Museum of Modern Art in 1966. By 1969, Stern began to incorporate industrial images into these scenes, and in the early 1970s, Stern created her first Neo-Immaculate works of rural, and urban landscapes, which she described as her most satisfying work. Stern often depicted locations that she held close -- New York, New Jersey, Iowa (where her son attended college), Sharon, Connecticut (where her family spent weekends and vacations) and her native Venice, Italy. Stern’s success as a Neo Immaculate painter led to consistent New York gallery representation for over two decades, first with Lee Ault Co and James Yu Gallery, and then Forum Gallery, where she had six solo shows. In 1971, Stern completed a Neo-Immaculate mural commission for the Port Authority of New York, George Washington Bridge #1 and #2, followed by another commission from the NY Cityarts Public Art Program in 1976 for a mural on Mulberry Street. Stern also enjoyed solo exhibitions in Boston (Eleanor Rigelhaupt Gallery), Connecticut (Silo Gallery, the Hotchkiss School, J. Rosenthal Fine Arts Gallery, Tremaine Gallery, and Staib Gallery), Chicago (Michael Rosenfeld Gallery), and Santa Fe (Santa Fe East Gallery). Her work was included in group shows at over a dozen public institutions, including The National Academy of Design, The Staten Island Museum, Worcester Art Museum, the Oklahoma Art Center, and the Arkansas Art Center. The Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art hosted a retrospective of four decades of Stern’s work from January 19 to April 22, 2007, entitled Perception and the Cultural Environment: The Paintings of Marina...

Title: Green Table Newspaper and Flower Vases Abstract Interior Modernist Still Life Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) Gouache on artist paper, unframed Size: 19.75 x 25.5 inches (heig...

Genre: Modern Subject: Kitchen still life with pineapple, sourdough bread and lemons Medium: oil paint, done in a sgraffito, impasto somewhat brutalist technique Surface: board Count...

Signed lower left & titled verso. A printmaker and painter in abstract style who used wide brush marks, Henry Kallem was born in Philadelphia. His father was Morris Kallem, a portrait painter, with whom he studied, and his brother was sculptor Herbert Kallem...

FRUIT & RED MUG Oil on Board Size: 39.5 x 39.5 cm (including frame) An expressive and beautifully textured mid-century still life oil composition, executed i...

TULIPS IN A JUG Size: 70 x 61 cm (including frame) Oil on canvas An elegant and delicate mid-century still life painting, executed in oil onto canvas. The composition captures a bo...

Title: Still Life with Bananas Leeks and Pumpkin French Modernist Gouache Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) Gouache on artist paper, unframed Size: 23 x 19.25 inches (height x width) P...

The beaches of Luigi Christopher Veggetti Kanku represent a pictorial exploration that goes beyond the mere representation of the subject itself. The artist seeks to convey a poetry ...

FISH & FLOWERS Size: 47 x 62 cm (including frame) Oil on Canvas Laid onto Board A characterful mid-century modernist style still life oil composition, painted onto canvas. At the h...

Alfred Maurer was born in 1868 in New York City, the son of Louis Maurer, a commercial artist for Currier and Ives. He worked in the family lithographic business as a young man and a...

Evocative abstract acrylic painting on canvas that explores the relationship between yellow and grey. Painted with acrylic on canvas in 1973 by Bonnie Lewton, titled on the back yell...

YELLOW FLOWERS Size: 60.5 x 45 cm (including frame) Oil on board A mid century modernist floral composition, painted in oil onto board. This painting depicts a vibrant and expressi...

BALCONY GARDEN Size: 32 x 26 cm (including frame) Oil on canvas A richly textured and charming mid-century painting, executed in oil onto canvas. Small yet impactful in its composi...

Title: Vibrant Still Life with Bananas Pumpkin and Leeks French Modernist Gouache Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) Gouache on artist paper, unframed Size: 19.25 x 22.75 inches (height...

"The Morning Paper" 1949, a fine original tempera painting on board by listed artist Elsa Warner (1900-1988). Elsa Warner was born on June 6, 1900 in Illinois. After studying at the ...

Midcentury oil on canvas , Wharf scene, possibly Fishermans Wharf in San Francisco. Signed lower right. Mel Fowler (1921-1987) was a listed Italian-American painter known for his cub...

Vases and Bottles signed by Laure Noetzin-Azam (French 1929-2024) pupil of André LHOTE oil on canvas, unframed canvas: 18 x 22 inches Provenance: all the paintings we have by this ar...

Title: Artichokes Blue Drapery and Still Life Vegetables Gouache Painting Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) Gouache on artist paper, unframed Size: 25.75 x 19.5 inches (height x width)...

WATERMELON & POT Size: 68.5 x 81.5 cm (including frame) Oil on canvas A wonderfully textured mid-century still life composition that presents a vibrant arrangement of everyday objec...

Title: Abstract Sunflowers Still Life French Modernist Gouache Painting Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) Gouache on artist paper, unframed Size: 19.75 x 24.25 inches (height x width) ...

Title: Abstract Still Life with Flowers Lemons Jug Cup and Cloche Modernist Gouache Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) Gouache on artist paper, unframed Size: 1...

Title: Abstract Still Life with Green Bottle Draped Fabrics Fruit Forms Modernist Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) Gouache on artist paper, unframed Size: 14.75 x 19.25 inches (height...

Artist: Elisabeth Hahn (German 1924-2021), Elisabeth Hahn was born in Dortmund, Germany, where she began her artistic studies. In 1953, she moved to Paris. She continued her studie...

Title: Abstract Still Life with Brass Musical Instruments Modernist Gouache Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) Gouache on artist paper, unframed Size: 24 x 19.5 inches (height x width) ...

Title: Colourful Interior Still Life with Vases Bowls and Hanging Bag Modernist Gouache Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) Gouache on artist paper, unframed Size: 19.75 x 24 inches (hei...

Title: Abstract Still Life with Plates Bowls and Chair French Modernist Gouache Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) Gouache and oil on artist paper, unframed Size: 25.75 x 19.75 inches (...

August Frederick Biehle (American, 1885–1979) Chrysanthemums and Gerbera Daisies Gouache and litho crayon on paper Signed lower right 28 x 20 inches 33.75 x 26 inches, framed A vers...

Hand signed lower right: Pisis 41 On left, centered, the initials “V.R.”, indicating the artist’s Studio in Milan, via Rugabella. Filippo De Pisis was an Italian painter-poet who wa...

Title: Green Bottle Abstract Draped Fabrics Bold Colour Modernist Still Life French Art Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) Gouache on artist paper, unframed Size: 19 x 15 inches (height...

Title: Pineapple Pomegranates Fruit Display with Leaves Shelves Modernist Still Life Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) Gouache on artist paper, unframed Size: 24 x 18.25 inches (height...

This is not one of McMackin's widely available reproductions. This is the actual oil painting of the Canadian Snowboarder. Arrives framed. One cannot appreciate this beautiful painting on a computer screen. In real life, it is fantastic. Snowboarding is a recreational and competitive activity that involves descending a snow-covered surface while standing on a snowboard that is almost always attached to a rider's feet. It features in the Winter Olympic Games and Winter Paralympic Games. Snowboarding was developed in the United States, inspired by skateboarding, sledding, surfing, and skiing. It became popular around the world, and was introduced as a Winter Olympic Sport at Nagano in 1991 and featured in the Winter Paralympics at Sochi in 2014.2 As of 2015, its popularity (as measured by equipment sales) in the United States peaked in 2007 and has been in a decline since. The first snowboards were developed in 1965 when Sherman Poppen, an engineer in Muskegon, Michigan, invented a toy for his daughters by fastening two skis together and attaching a rope to one end so he would have some control as they stood on the board and glided downhill. Dubbed the "snurfer" (combining snow and surfer) by his wife Nancy, the toy proved so popular among his daughters' friends that Poppen licensed the idea to a manufacturer, Brunswick Corporation, that sold about a million snurfers over the next decade.5 And, in 1966 alone, over half a million snurfers were sold. Modern snowboarding was pioneered by Tom Sims and Jake Burton Carpenter, who both contributed significant innovations and started influential companies. In February 1968, Poppen organized the first snurfing competition at a Michigan ski resort that attracted enthusiasts from all over the country.7 One of those early pioneers was Tom Sims, a devotee of skateboarding (a sport born in the 1950s when kids attached roller skate wheels to small boards that they steered by shifting their weight). In the 1960s, as an eighth grader in Haddonfield, New Jersey, Sims crafted a snowboard in his school shop class by gluing carpet to the top of a piece of wood and attaching aluminum sheeting to the bottom.8 He produced commercial snowboards in the mid-70s.9 Others experimented with board-on-snow configurations at this time, including Welsh skateboard enthusiasts Jon Roberts and Pete Matthews developed their own snowboards to use at their local dry ski slope. Also during this same period, in 1977, Jake Burton Carpenter, a Vermont native who had enjoyed snurfing since the age of 14, impressed the crowd at a Michigan snurfing competition with bindings he had designed to secure his feet to the board. That same year, he founded Burton Snowboards in Londonderry, Vermont.12 The "snowboards" were made of wooden planks that were flexible and had water ski foot traps. Very few people picked up snowboarding because the price of the board was considered too high at $38 and were not allowed on many ski hills, but eventually Burton would become the biggest snowboarding company in the business.13 Burton's early designs for boards with bindings became the dominant features in snowboarding. The first competitions to offer prize money were the National Snurfing Championship, held at Muskegon State Park in Muskegon, Michigan.14 In 1979, Jake Burton Carpenter came from Vermont to compete with a snowboard of his own design. There were protests about Jake entering with a non-snurfer board. Paul Graves, and others, advocated that Jake be allowed to race. A "modified" "Open" division was created and won by Jake as the sole entrant. That race was considered the first competition for snowboards and is the start of what became competitive snowboarding. Ken Kampenga, John Asmussen and Jim Trim placed first, second and third respectively in the Standard competition with best two combined times of 24.71, 25.02 and 25.41; and Jake Carpenter won prize money as the sole entrant in the "open" division with a time of 26.35.15 In 1980 the event moved to Pando Winter Sports Park near Grand Rapids, Michigan because of a lack of snow that year at the original venue. In the early 1980s, Aleksey Ostatnigrosh and Alexei Melnikov, two Snurfers from the Soviet Union, patented design changes to the Snurfer to allow jumping by attaching a bungee cord, a single footed binding to the Snurfer tail, and a two-foot binding design for improved control. As snowboarding became more popular in the 1970s and 1980s, pioneers such as Dimitrije Milovich (founder of Winterstick out of Salt Lake City, UT), Jake Burton Carpenter (founder of Burton Snowboards from Londonderry, Vermont), Tom Sims (founder of Sims Snowboards), David Kemper (founder of Kemper Snowboards) and Mike Olson...

Title: Abstract Red Fruit and Green Foliage Large French Modernist Still Life Painting Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) Gouache on artist paper, unframed Size: 19.75 x 24.25 inches (h...

Title: French Modernist Breakfast Still Life with Baguettes Coffee Pot Flowers and Cups Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) Gouache on artist paper, unframed Size: 24 x 18 inches (height...

Plant Pot & Apples Oil on Board Size: 49.5 x 36.5 cm (including frame) A brilliant mid-century modernist style still life composition that focuses on the simplicity of everyday obje...

GOES UP, COMES DOWN Size: 30 x 40 x 2 cm Acrylic on Canvas A playful and captivating still life painting, executed in acrylic onto linen canvas by contemporary Irish artist Jenny B...

Oil painting on burlap with a striking composition of a Chinese porcelain bowl. Executed in an ancient fresco style, combining modern simplicity with age old rustic texture and techn...

OBJECTS BY THE WINDOW Size: 67 x 59 cm (including frame) Oil on canvas A striking and energetic mid-century expressionist style interior still life painting, executed in oil onto ca...

PLATEAU Size: 30 x 40 x 2 cm (including frame) Acrylic on Canvas A playful and captivating still life painting, executed in acrylic onto linen canvas by contemporary Irish artist Je...

Jeannie Borel German, 1928-2007 Still Life with Cups Oil on Canvas 32 by 39 ½ in, w/ frame 39 ½ by 47 in Signed Borel 56 lower center

Bold Still Life French Modernist, circa 1970-1980 period oil on canvas, unframed canvas : 22 x 29 inches Provenance: private collection, France Condition: very good condition Descri...

Title: Still Life With Blue Flowers and Green Drapery French Modern Gouache Painting Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) Gouache on artist paper, unframed Size: 22.5 x 19 inches (height ...

Oil and Polyviny on board, signed on reverse Image size: 15 1/2 x 11 3/4 inches (39.5 x 30 cm) Original frame Exhibited Pictures for Scottish Schools, 1967 Elspeth Spottiswood Bo...

Born in Italy, Joseph Stella immigrated to New York City at the age of nineteen and went on to become one of America’s foremost modernist painters. He remained deeply loyal to his It...