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Tribute, Pop Art Serigraph by Hunt Slonem
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Hunt Slonem, American (1951 - ) Title: Tribute Year: 1980 Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: AP 30 Image Size: 22 x 25 inches Size: 26 in. x 29....
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1980s Pop Art Still-life Prints

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Screen

Matisse s Cat - The Red Studio Harmony in Red, diptych, original, contemporary
Located in Deddington, GB
BASQUIAT'S CAT, 2025 Silkscreen Image Size H 22 x 22cm Framed Size H 47 x 45cm Edition of 100 Additional information: Screen print on Paper Edition of 100 22 H x 22 W cm (8.66 x 8.6...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Paper

Fresno Basket
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Beth Van Hoesen – American (1926- 2010) Title: Fresno Basket Date: 1974 Medium: Color aquatint and etching, hand colored with watercolor Image Size: 12.25 x 12.75 inches Fram...
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1970s Realist Still-life Prints

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Color, Etching, Paper, Watercolor, Aquatint

Flowering Digitalis Plants: An Original 17th C. Botanical Engraving by E. Sweert
By Emanuel Sweert
Located in Alamo, CA
This beautiful and extremely rare early 17th century hand-colored copperplate engraving of four flowering Digitalis plants by the Dutch artist and botanist Emanuel Sweert is plate 6 ...
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Early 17th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints

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Engraving

Vintage Richard Hamilton Poster Davison Art Center 1973 (The Critic Laughs 1973)
Located in New York, NY
This poster was produced in 1973 to promote a Richard Hamilton exhibition at the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, USA. The poster reproduces The cri...
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1970s Modern Still-life Prints

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Offset

Paris School Minaux Matisse Post-Impressionist Still Life Lithograph Flowers
Located in Norfolk, GB
School of Paris Artist, Andre Minaux (Paris 1923-86) Limited Edition 20/20, printed in 7 colours on Japon paper. Sheet size 57" x 38", image size 49" x 32" Signed Bottom right in pencil, editioned in pencil bottom left With a full sheet authenticity certificate, dated 1964 This is a fabulous original Limited Edition Lithograph, completely of its time when artists in Paris were pushing boundaries and trying to bring about new styles. The influence of artists like Matisse can be seen and Minaux was working alongside artists such as Picasso and with Bernard Buffet to reject ideas of Abstract painting. The text that accompanies the lithograph can be seen in the image of the certificate and is in French. The translation that follows on the certificate of Provenance gives an in depth description of this compelling still life: 'It is a singularly balanced art that that of André MINAUX, a typically French painting, made of power of clarity and nobility, in the tradition of our great modern masters as well as those of past centuries. And yet this painting under the hieratic appearance of the attitudes is not a wise painting, but on the contrary terribly dynamic, in which the passion and the virulence of the feelings are contained only by the simplicity and the purity of the forms. Each work of André Minaux is a miracle of balance between bubbling joy; joy of painting, joy of living; which animates the artist, and the voluntary serenity of the colors and volumes by which he translates his vision of beauty and grandeur. André Minaux's painting, full of a life in perpetual becoming, is the great and worthy expression of an art continually in evolution which moves without aggressiveness, but not without struggles, towards its final ends. And this painting, painting of an artist in full possession of all his means, of an extremely solid technique, and of a perfect trade is however that of a young person. Forty-one years is youth for a painter and at this age André Minaux, already recognized as one of the masters of the young French figurative school, has a future as brilliant and promising as behind him a long history of hard work and success. André Minaux is Parisian, born September 5, 1923. Very young he feels attracted to the graphic arts, he prepares and enters the School of Decorative Arts, but pure painting attracts him irresistibly and it is to her that he soon devotes himself exclusively. His young and great talent makes him quickly noticed. He first exhibited at the Salon des Sous de Trente Ans and later at other salons: des Indépendants, d'Automne, then at the Salon de Mai and at the Tuileries. In 1948 first private exhibition in Paris, others will follow in 1951, 1956 and 1957. In the meantime two exhibitions equal ment were devoted to him in London in 1953 and 1957. His last was a very important exhibition in 1963 at the David and Garnier Gallery in Paris. In 1949 at the 'Ecole de Paris', Galerie Charpentier, he had already won the Critics' Prize. Its reputation extends abroad thanks to numerous demonstrations of groups in England, Germany, Australia, Canada, Japon, U.S. A., etc... The Museum of Modern Art in Paris, several museums in the provinces, the Tate Gallery in London, have works by André Minaux, and his paintings can be found in major collections in Paris, London, New York, Tokyo, Stockholm, etc. ... Member of the French engraver painters, André Minaux is a remarkable lithographer, his lithographed work is already very important, he is also a member of the "Comité National du Livre Illustré Français and he has illustrated a certain number of luxury books...
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1960s Post-Impressionist Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Magritte, Composition, Les chants de Maldoror (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin papier pur chiffon paper. Paper Size: 10 x 7.375 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Les chants de Maldoror, illustrat...
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1940s Surrealist Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

LeWitt, Composition, Ficciones (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Silkscreen on vélin Saunders Waterford, St Cuthberts Mill paper. Paper Size: 8 x 7.625 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Ficciones, 1984...
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1980s Conceptual Still-life Prints

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Screen

LeWitt, Composition, Ficciones (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Silkscreen on vélin Saunders Waterford, St Cuthberts Mill paper. Paper Size: 8 x 7.625 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Ficciones, 1984...
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1980s Conceptual Still-life Prints

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Screen

Georges Braque, Black Foliage, from Carnets intimes, 1955 (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph after Georges Braque (1882–1963), titled Feuillage noir (Black Foliage), from Carnets intimes (Private Sketchbooks), Verve, Vol. VIII, No. 31–32, originates...
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1950s Modern Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Magritte, Composition, Les chants de Maldoror (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin papier pur chiffon paper. Paper Size: 10 x 7.375 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Les chants de Maldoror, illustrat...
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1940s Surrealist Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

"1990 Ferrari F40" Limited Edition Giclée Print
Located in Denver, CO
Shan Fannin's (US based) "1990 Ferrari F40" is an limited edition giclée print that depicts a close up view of the back side of a 1990 Ferrari F40. Born...
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2010s Photorealist Still-life Prints

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Giclée

Flowers, Folk Art Screenprint by Jack Hofflander
Located in Long Island City, NY
Jack Hofflander, American (1920 - 2003) - Flowers, Medium: Screenprint, numbered in pencil, Edition: TP, Image Size: 18.5 x 26 inches, Size: 21 x 28 in. (53.34 x 71.12 cm), Des...
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1980s Folk Art Still-life Prints

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Screen

Millenium Garlic, by Konstantin Chmutin
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Signed, titled and numbered from the edition of 55. This is one of Chmutin's largest prints, a portrait of a large millenium Garlic in dramatic pose. Most of his mezzotints are tiny,...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Mezzotint

Night Laurel Diptych (Hand-printed cyanotype, 40 x 52 inches combined)
Located in Oakland, CA
Unframed. Two 40h x 26w inch monotypes. Signed on the back by the artist. Images of the prints framed are just to give a sense of how much wall they would cover once framed with a...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Monotype, Photogram

Calder, Sans titre, Derrière le miroir (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition, with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 190, published by Aimé Maeg...
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1970s Modern Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Picris (Sunflower); Helmintia (Bristly Oxtongue) /// Botanical Botany Plants Art
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (French, 1707-1788) Title: "Picris (Sunflower); Helmintia (Bristly Oxtongue)" (Syngenesie; Polygamie, Plate 648) Portfolio: Histoire Na...
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1740s Old Masters Still-life Prints

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Watercolor, Laid Paper, Engraving, Intaglio

Baccharis (Baccharises); Chrysocoma (Golden Bitter Bush) /// Botanical Botany
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (French, 1707-1788) Title: "Baccharis (Baccharises); Chrysocoma (Golden Bitter Bush)" (Syngenesie; Polygamie, Plate 698) Portfolio: His...
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1740s Old Masters Still-life Prints

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Watercolor, Laid Paper, Engraving, Intaglio

Rene Magritte, Untitled, from Poems 1923-1958, 1959 (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph after Rene Magritte (1898–1967), titled Sans titre (Untitled), from the album Poems 1923-1958, Dix dessins de Rene Magritte (Ten Drawings by Rene Magritte),...
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1950s Surrealist Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Flowers - Lithograph by Renzo Vespignani - 1980
Located in Roma, IT
Flowers is a modern artwork realized by Renzo Vespignani in 1980. Mixed colored lithograph. Hand signed and dated on the lower margin. Numbered on the lower left. Artist's proof....
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1980s Modern Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Garden Moments II
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Ellen Gunn (1951- ) Title: Garden Moments II Medium: Screenprint Image size: 22 x 26.75 inches Sheet size: 22 x 26.75 inches Signature: lower right Edition: 375 This one: 35...
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1990s Impressionist Still-life Prints

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Paper, Screen

Le Mais (Corn on the cob) in woven basket)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Maize by Scholnyk is a mezzotint of ears of corn in a woven basket. This impression is #25 of an edition of 80. Schkolnyk was born in Paris, France in 1953 and currently resides in...
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1890s American Modern Still-life Prints

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Mezzotint

Waterlilies, Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Lowell Nesbitt (1933-1993) Title: Waterlilies Year: 1981 Edition: 42/200, plus proofs. Medium: Silkscreen on Arches paper Size: 23.25 x 41.5 inches Condition: Good Inscriptio...
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1980s Pop Art Still-life Prints

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Screen

Untitled, from the Art Against AIDS Portfolio
Located in New York, NY
Gael Stack Untitled, from the Art Against AIDS Portfolio, 1988 Woodcut on paper with deckled edges. Hand signed. Numbered. Printer's and Publisher's Blindstamp. Unframed. Hand signed and numbered on the lower recto (front) with printer's and publisher's blindstamp. Edition 38/50 20 × 15 inches Publisher Little Egypt Enterprises, Houston, TX Provenance Art Against AIDS Portfolio, numbered 38/50 This beautiful limited edition woodcut by Gael Stack was published in 1988 as part of the Art Against Aids portfolio, numbered 38/50. Superb provenance as it is was acquired from the original Art Against AIDS Portfolio published in Houston, Texas. This will be the first time the work will be removed from the portfolio. The late 1980s was the height of the AIDS epidemic, and this was one of many efforts by the creative community to raise funds to assist in fighting this deadly scourge that disproportionately affected the artistic community. Measurements: 20 x 15 inches (sheet) 8 1/4 x 12 inches(image) The complete Art Against AIDS Portfolio is comprised of 10 prints, in black and white and color, from 10 artists. About Gael Stack: Gael Stack is a Texas painter. She lives in Houston and has work in the permanent collections of several museums. Stack has worked as a professor at the University of Houston...
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1980s Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Woodcut, Pencil

Salvador Dali - The Torso - Original Stamp-Signed Etching
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - The Torso - Original Stamp-Signed Etching Stamp signed by Dali Edition of 294 copies. Paper : Arches vellum. Dimensions : 16x12". Catalogue Raisonné : Field 68-6 (...
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1960s Surrealist Still-life Prints

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Etching

Lillies and Bowls (still life of flowers and colorful bowls)
Located in New Orleans, LA
The moon, bowls, lillies and birds are featured in this 2002 mezzotint. It is #17 from an edition of 75 and is signed, titled, dated and edition by hand by this Korean artist born i...
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Mezzotint

Robert Béenard (1734-1794) - 18th Century Engraving, Le Pivre Le Betel
Located in Corsham, GB
Well presented in a simple mahogany frame and cream mount. On wove.
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Early 18th Century Still-life Prints

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Engraving

Plum Bob #2 (a multi color lithograph showing brass plum bob and night sky)
Located in New Orleans, LA
A dramatic gold - colored plumb bob, hanging against a backdrop of geometric drawings, is contrasted with the stars of the night sky. In the Greek Empire...
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Silver Eucalyptus I ( 24 x 18 inch hand-printed cyanotype)
Located in Oakland, CA
Though this unique monotype looks like a woodcut or linocut, it is not. This is a cyanotype, a kind of lensless photography dating back to the 1800s, but the artist altered the ratio...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram

Silver Eucalyptus II ( 24 x 18 inch hand-printed cyanotype)
Located in Oakland, CA
Though this unique monotype looks like a woodcut or linocut, it is not. This is a cyanotype, a kind of lensless photography dating back to the 1800s, but the artist altered the ratio...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram

Silver Eucalyptus III ( 24 x 18 inch hand-printed cyanotype)
Located in Oakland, CA
Though this unique monotype looks like a woodcut or linocut, it is not. This is a cyanotype, a kind of lensless photography dating back to the 1800s, but the artist altered the ratio...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram

Misty Agapanthus IV ( 24 x 18 inch hand-printed cyanotype)
Located in Oakland, CA
Though this unique monotype looks like a woodcut or linocut, it is not. This is a cyanotype, a kind of lensless photography dating back to the 1800s, but the artist altered the ratio...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram

DEARDORFF Signed Mini Lithograph, Still Life, Retro Camera with Inverted Image
Located in Union City, NJ
DEARDORFF is a hand drawn limited edition lithograph by the American surrealist artist Fanny Brennan, created using traditional hand lithography techniqu...
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1990s Surrealist Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Grey
Located in Slovak Republic, SK
Fine art print. Signed, limited edition of 5.
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Archival Paper

Grey
$528 Sale Price
20% Off
Letter "S"
Located in Slovak Republic, SK
Fine art print from "The Alphabet Collection" - Letter "S" as Superman
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Archival Paper

Letter "S"
$370 Sale Price
30% Off
Coke, Jelly Beans and Lifesavers, still life pop art screen print
Located in Deddington, GB
Kate Brinkworth. Coke, Jelly Beans and Lifesavers- limited edition silk screen print, printed on 400gsm Somerset paper with a beautiful gloss finish. Signed by the artist. Limited ed...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Paper, Screen

The Hidden Symbol
Located in Slovak Republic, SK
Fine art print, photo, donein NY.
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Archival Paper

Letter "C"
Located in Slovak Republic, SK
Fine art print from "The Alphabet Collection" - Letter "C" as Comics
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Archival Paper

Letter "C"
$343 Sale Price
35% Off
Subway Face
Located in Slovak Republic, SK
Archival paper, photography. Done in NY.
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Archival Paper

Subway Face
$1,153 Sale Price
20% Off
The Different View
Located in Slovak Republic, SK
Fine art print, photography, done in NY.
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Archival Paper

The Sea of Windows
Located in Slovak Republic, SK
Fine art print, photo, available also in other sizes.
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Archival Paper

Forest, 1977
Located in London, GB
Ai Weiwei “Forest (1977)”, 2024 Limited edition offset lithograph print Edition of 200 Hand-signed by the artist Published by Damocle Edizioni, Venice, 2024 Each edition comes with...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Lithograph, Offset

Daniel Serra-Badue, Solitude
Located in New York, NY
Daniel Serra-Badue was a Cuban artist working in New York City. His work is notable not only for the surrealist subject matter (a single egg in a wire basket in deep space) but for t...
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1970s Surrealist Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Sue Ware Jar
Located in London, GB
Patrick Caulfield Sue Ware Jar, 1990 Screenprint on paper sheet: 107.2 x 81.1 cm image: 79.4 × 53.3 cm Edition of 45 + 10 AP Patrick Caulfield was a British painter and printmaker, ...
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1990s Post-Minimalist Still-life Prints

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Paper, Screen

Violin et Coquille (violin and shell / inscribed Happy New Year 2000)
Located in New Orleans, LA
This black and white mezzotint of a shell next to a violin is an artist proof that was inscribed Happy New Year 2000 and signed by the artist. The regular e...
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1990s American Modern Still-life Prints

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Mezzotint

Stilleben mit Obstschale, Modern Screenprint after Max Oppenheimer
Located in Long Island City, NY
Max Oppenheimer, After, Austrian (1885 - 1954) - Stilleben mit Obstschale, Year: circa 1925, Medium: Screenprint, Edition: Test Print, Image Size: 8 x 11.25 inches, Size: 12.75 ...
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1920s Modern Still-life Prints

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Screen

Braque, Soleil et lune I, Derrière le miroir (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 115, 1959. Published by Aimé Maeght, Éditeur, Paris; pr...
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1950s Modern Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Amsterdam II ed 28/50 black-white canal house facade aquatint etch print
Located in Doetinchem, NL
Amsterdam II is an intriguing early career aquatint dry-needle etch print by renowned French-Dutch artist Olivier Julia. It depicts a detail of an old Amsterdam house facade and is b...
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1980s Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Rag Paper, Etching, Aquatint

Trivium MMV
Located in New Orleans, LA
In medieval universities, the trivium comprised the three subjects that were taught first: grammar, logic, and rhetoric. The word is a Latin term meaning "the three ways" or "the thr...
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Early 2000s American Modern Still-life Prints

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Mezzotint, Lithograph, Screen

Trivium MMV
Trivium MMV
$487 Sale Price
35% Off
Robert Béenard (1734-1794) - 18th Century Engraving, Le Quinquina La Casse
Located in Corsham, GB
Well presented in a simple mahogany frame and cream mount. On wove.
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Early 18th Century Still-life Prints

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Engraving

Le pot et la faucille, Une Aventure méthodique, Georges Braque
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin d'Arches paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Une Aventure méthodique, 1950; published by Fernand Mourlot, Paris, a...
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1950s Modern Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Lemons "Cedro Ditela Multiforme": An 18th C. Volckamer Hand-colored Engraving
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an early 18th century hand-colored copperplate engraving of lemons by Johann Christoph Volkhamer entitled "Cedro a Ditela o Multiforme" from his publication "Nurmbergische He...
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Early 18th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints

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Engraving

Pylon (Brooklyn Bridge from Manhattan side of East River near South St. Seaport)
Located in New Orleans, LA
A "Pylon" of the Brooklyn Bridge with the Manhattan Bridge and Williamsburg Bridge visible in the background is captured in this powerful image by Frederick Mershimer. It is #77 in t...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Mezzotint

Elegy for a Forgotten Day
Located in New Orleans, LA
This image is an artist proof and is annotated VIII / VIII The artist's subject matter was enigmatic: a recurring theme was that of anonymous packages tied with knots of rope; sometimes there are prison bars...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Still-life Prints

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Mezzotint

Petite Fleur Suite II
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Ellen Gunn (1951- ) Title: Petite Fleur Suite II Medium: Screenprint Image size: 11 x 14 inches Sheet size: 18 x 20 inches Signature: lower right Edition: 375 This one: 148/...
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1990s Impressionist Still-life Prints

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Paper, Screen

18Th Century Botanical Engraving
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Rare Botanical Hand Colored Engraving about 1737-1745 Beautifully framed French hand painted mat, in gold leaf frame each print measure 9.5x14.5 with the frame 23.5hx18.5x1 Johann ...
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Early 18th Century Old Masters Still-life Prints

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Engraving

Buds, Still Life Realist Screenprint by Jack Beal
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Jack Beal, American (1931 - 2013) Title: Buds Year: circa 1975 Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 50 Size: 31 in. x 41 in. (78.74 cm x 104.14 cm)
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1970s American Realist Still-life Prints

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Screen

Last Call - the facsimile print
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
The facsimile print made on a paper with size of 100x70cm (39.3x27.5 in). The dominant colors are black and white with a greyish gamma. Describing the work of Timofey Smirnov we can say that you will find here a post-war telephone set and an ancient Egyptian relief...
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2010s Photorealist Still-life Prints

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Paper, Pencil, Carbon Pencil, Carbon Pigment

HOPE, 2021 (The promise of the new year appears to be floating
Located in New Orleans, LA
Hope is an archival color print with sculptured and hot gloss stamp printed in an edition of 50. This is impression #25 of 50. ARTIST STATEMENT: Language is liquid and as HOPE was ...
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2010s Pop Art Still-life Prints

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Archival Ink, Color, Archival Pigment

Quivisia; Portesia /// Antique Botanical Botany Plants Science Engraving Buffon
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (French, 1707-1788) Title: "Quivisia; Portesia" (Octandreie, Monogynie, Plate 302) Portfolio: Histoire Naturelle Year: 1749-1789 Medium...
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1740s Old Masters Still-life Prints

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Watercolor, Laid Paper, Engraving, Intaglio

Still-Life Prints and Other Still-Life Wall Art for Sale on 1stDibs

As part of the wall decor in your living room, dining room or elsewhere, original still-life prints and other still-life wall art can look sophisticated alongside your well-curated decorative objects and can help set the mood in a 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, popular still-life prints often 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 still-life 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 that were the subject of their work.

While early examples were primarily figurative, you can find still lifes that belong to different schools and styles of painting and printmaking, such as Cubism, Impressionism and contemporary art.

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.

Still-life art enthusiasts and collectors of Warhol prints have lots of reasons to love the cultural icon — when Warhol brought the image of a Campbell’s soup can out of the supermarket and into the studio, in 1961, he secured his legacy as a radical contemporary artist. After Warhol painted the soup cans, he realized that he could more readily achieve the mass-produced aesthetic he was seeking with silkscreens, also called screen-prints, and he began experimenting with silkscreening on canvas. He used the technique to print paintings of Coke bottles and dollar bills (both in 1962), as well as his treasured Brillo box sculptures (1964).  

When shopping for a still-life print, 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, the collection of still-life prints and other still-life wall art includes works by Jonas Wood, Alex Katz, Nina Tsoriti and many more.

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