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"Time Square" Green, Red, Black
White Contemporary Figurative Painting
By Mark Flood
Located in Houston, TX
abstract figures of a woman and a man against a dark, grungy background with figures and skulls. The artist
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Portrait of a Trepanning Surgeon, Early 17th Century Oil Painting
Located in London, GB
Empire. The man is standing holding a trepanation instrument and is accompanied by a skull. At the time
Category
Early 17th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oak, Oil
"La Proclamacion" Whimsical Blue and Green-Toned Abstract Contemporary Painting
Located in Houston, TX
painting depicts a dark-themed evening scene featuring a man in a baby blue ruffled cloak holding a skull
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
American Abstract Expressionist California Oil Canvas Painting Still Life 1937
By Hans Gustav Burkhardt
Located in Portland, OR
against the Vietnam War, some of which incorporated the human skulls he had collected from Mexican
Category
1930s Abstract Expressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Ego" Oil Painting
By David Cheifetz
Located in Denver, CO
David Cheifetz's "Ego is an oil painting featuring a dark skull contrasted with a light background
Category
2010s Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Georges Braque (French, 1882-1963) - Nature Morte au Pot
By Georges Braque
Located in Dallas, TX
period also feature the vanitas element of a human skull. Notwithstanding technical, stylistic, and
Category
1950s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Paint
Un Cadeau de Quatres Cranes
By Darren LeGallo
Located in West Hollywood, CA
. "
Un Cadeau de Quatres Cranes, (A Gift of Four Skulls), is a unique mixed media paintings, signed
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Price Upon Request
Animal (after Michelangelo) Figurative Mixed Media Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
ancient Greeks and Vikings have a goat appear in their legends. Berlin's goat skulls borrow from these
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Mixed Media
Materials
Gold Leaf
"Rights". Contemporary Neo Expressionist Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
ancient Greeks and Vikings have a goat appear in their legends. Berlin’s goat skulls borrow from these
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Mixed Media
Materials
Gold Leaf
Sticker Painting
By Macauley Norman
Located in Jersey City, NJ
, landscapes, UFOs, food items, nineties-era pornography, vehicles, yin yang symbols, skulls, daggers, a
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Epoxy Resin, Plastic, Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel, Archival Ink
"Quoting Sagan" Oil Painting
By Patrick Nevins
Located in Denver, CO
Patrick Nevin's (US based) "Quoting Sagan" is an oil painting that depicts a human skull situated
Category
2010s American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"Vanitas with Marine Corps Coin" Oil Painting
By Patrick Nevins
Located in Denver, CO
skull situated with an orange, a Marine Corps coin, and other various objects in a dark interior
Category
2010s American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"Porcupine" Oil Painting
By Gregory Block
Located in Denver, CO
Gregory Block's (US based) "Porcupine" is an oil painting that depicts a Porcupine skull and wooden
Category
2010s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Shop Window, LA 91, Oil Painting
By Hadley Northrop
Located in San Francisco, CA
, glass globes, night, Los Angeles, the soap plant, Melrose, still life, skull, bird, heart, decorations
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist More Art
Materials
Oil
And His Naked Ears were Tortured,
by Mark Gilmore, Oil on Canvas Painting
By Mark Gilmore
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
witnesses the subjugation of a subject by the peacock king. Ulysses is flanked between two large skulls that
Category
2010s Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
French Surrealist Trompe L
oeil Apples OIl Painting
By Lucien Mathelin
Located in Surfside, FL
the French flag as a towel drying. In Les Invalides , the dome is replaced by a skull. The columns of
Category
20th Century Surrealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
What a Life
Located in Los Angeles, CA
. And, in the middle of the composition is a crowned human skull sitting above an overturned paying card
Category
1920s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
“Spanish Beach Scene”
By Benjamin Stahl
Located in Southampton, NY
in 1968; The Secret of Red Skull, a sequel to Blackbeard's Ghost, was also published by Houghton
Category
1970s Post-Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
$2,414 Sale Price
29% Off
Mid Century Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
almost all the characters and situations that had been developed thus far and changing its name to 'Skull
Category
1950s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Bouquet of Flowers with Vanitas
By Louis Latapie
Located in London, GB
mortality and to live every moment of their life to the fullest. While the skull on the table is an obvious
Category
1930s Still-life Paintings
Materials
Paper, Wax Crayon
$1,809 Sale Price
40% Off
UNTITLED FIGURES (LINES AND SHAPES AGAINST TEXTURAL BACKGROUND)
By Shoshana Heimann
Located in Surfside, FL
creating small two-dimensional eulogies. Skulls, mummies, jackals and ferocious diving birds were
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Wood, Mixed Media, Oil
Is A Storm Coming? - Portrait of a Tattooed Biker, Original Oil on Canvas
By Bruno Surdo
Located in Chicago, IL
Sporting a skull cap and a multitude of colorful tattoos, artist Bruno Surdo has painted this self
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"BROKEN MIRROR 03242018 607pm", Primitive, Digital Print, Flag, Purple, Red
By Justin Neely
Located in Toronto, Ontario
between abstraction and figuration – seemingly a flag, a skull, the XXX of pirates and taboo – in colors
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Outsider Art Abstract Prints
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment
"Souvenirs from New Mexico and Georgian Icons" Oil Painting
By Ulrich Gleiter
Located in Denver, CO
depicts a still-life of human skulls on a wooden table.
Bio/Artist Statement:
German-born artist Ulrich
Category
2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Retina Capture 2 - smoke on paper, classic and contemporary with red
By Rob Tarbell
Located in Dallas, TX
Smoke and a Struggle in the
books: Skulls in 2008, 500 Ceramic Sculptures in 2009, and Ceramic
Category
2010s Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Charcoal, Archival Paper, Ink
$600 Sale Price
20% Off
Anna Balance #1, smoke on paper, elegant custom contemporary box frame
By Rob Tarbell
Located in Dallas, TX
). Lark Books featured a Smoke and a Struggle in the
books: Skulls in 2008, 500 Ceramic Sculptures in 2009
Category
2010s Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Charcoal, Archival Paper
$2,720 Sale Price
20% Off
Flying Alinga Double Jump, smoke on paper, elegant custom contemporary box frame
By Rob Tarbell
Located in Dallas, TX
and 8). Lark Books featured a Smoke and a Struggle in the
books: Skulls in 2008, 500 Ceramic
Category
2010s Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Charcoal, Archival Paper
More a Lover than a Fighter - smoke on paper contemporary wood box frame
By Rob Tarbell
Located in Dallas, TX
and 8). Lark Books featured a Smoke and a Struggle in the
books: Skulls in 2008, 500 Ceramic
Category
2010s Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Charcoal, Archival Paper
$1,680 Sale Price
20% Off
Venus E, smoke on paper, elegant custom contemporary box frame
By Rob Tarbell
Located in Dallas, TX
Smoke and a Struggle in the
books: Skulls in 2008, 500 Ceramic Sculptures in 2009, and Ceramic
Category
2010s Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Charcoal, Archival Paper
$2,320 Sale Price
20% Off
More a Lover than a Fighter II - smoke on paper classic and contemporary frame
By Rob Tarbell
Located in Dallas, TX
and 8). Lark Books featured a Smoke and a Struggle in the
books: Skulls in 2008, 500 Ceramic
Category
2010s Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Charcoal, Archival Paper
$1,680 Sale Price
20% Off
Elephant in the Room II - hot pink elephant, smoke on paper, contemporary frame
By Rob Tarbell
Located in Dallas, TX
). Lark Books featured a Smoke and a Struggle in the
books: Skulls in 2008, 500 Ceramic Sculptures in 2009
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Archival Paper
$1,760 Sale Price
20% Off
Venus May 2, Finalist at RA Summer Show 2014 smoke on paper contemporary frame
By Rob Tarbell
Located in Dallas, TX
1, 4, 6 and 8). Lark Books featured a Smoke and a Struggle in the
books: Skulls in 2008, 500 Ceramic
Category
2010s Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Charcoal, Archival Paper
$1,680 Sale Price
20% Off
LADY WITH PICK FAN
Located in Los Angeles, CA
parts through his own business. One day, a couple of kids brought in a shrunken skull they had made and
Category
1990s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$450 Sale Price
64% Off
BLONDE WITH ART DECO NECKLACE
Located in Los Angeles, CA
parts through his own business. One day, a couple of kids brought in a shrunken skull they had made and
Category
1990s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$650 Sale Price
48% Off
"Teschio Rosso" by Enzio Wenk, 2019 - Acrylic on Canvas, Neo-Expressionism
By Enzio Wenk
Located in Bresso, IT
Translated title: "Red skull".
Acrylic on canvas.
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Untitled
By Wizard Skull
Located in Tokyo, 13
LOT:20240516N04
Wizard Skull [Untitled]
Acrylic on canvas
Unique
Provenance: HERITAGE AUCTIONS
Category
2010s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Skull
By Roberto Chavez
Located in Culver City, CA
Roberto Chavez painted this large and ambitious painting based on a human skull that was found in
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
$75,000
Tiger Skull
By Michael Davis
Located in New York, NY
Tiger Skull
Materials
Oil, Wood
Broken Skull
By Tanner Goldbeck
Located in Los Angeles, CA
"Broken Skull" is an example of Tanner Goldbeck's line art. The multiple layers behind the primary
Category
2010s Street Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Spray Paint, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Chatter Skull
By Tanner Goldbeck
Located in Los Angeles, CA
"Chatter Skull" is an example of Tanner Goldbeck's line art. The multiple layers behind the primary
Category
2010s Street Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Spray Paint, Acrylic, Wood Panel
"Distorted Skull"
By Brent Estabrook
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Brent Estabrook’s ‘Frivolous Pursuit' skulls began during his four years of dental schooling and
Category
2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Skull 4" - skull pen drawing on paper
By Pablo Caviedes
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Skull drawing, hand-drawn by pen, framed, signed lower right. Unique, one of a kind.
"On The Map
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Water...
Materials
Cardboard, Archival Paper, Pen
FLOWER SKULL
Located in Boston, MA
I filled a picture plane with flowers that have a fixed meaning as the symbol of “beauty”. This is an act aimed at verifying whether totally new “beauty” exists or not by just accept...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil
Helmet Skull
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Waseem Marzouki's works are a reflection and meditation on his native Syria and the civil war that continues to ravage the country and its people.
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Synthetic Paper, Pencil
Skull - 3
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Waseem Marzouki's works are a reflection and meditation on his native Syria and the civil war that continues to ravage the country and its people.
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Synthetic Paper, Pencil
Skull of bull
By Maxim Kantor
Located in Geneva, CH
Still life with a skull of bull.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Red Skull Metallic
By Gordon Harris
Located in Belfast, GB
a skull.
Biography
Irish contemporary painter, Gordon Harris, is regarded as one Ireland’s most
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Silver
"Skull Study # 8"
By Brent Estabrook
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Brent Estabrook’s ‘Frivolous Pursuit' skulls began during his four years of dental schooling and
Category
2010s Abstract Impressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Skull Study # 28"
By Brent Estabrook
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Brent Estabrook’s ‘Frivolous Pursuit' skulls began during his four years of dental schooling and
Category
2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Skull Study # 21"
By Brent Estabrook
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Brent Estabrook’s ‘Frivolous Pursuit' skulls began during his four years of dental schooling and
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Pink Pink Skull
By Brent Estabrook
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Brent Estabrook’s ‘Frivolous Pursuit' skulls began during his four years of dental schooling and
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Skull Study # 6
By Brent Estabrook
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Brent Estabrook’s ‘Frivolous Pursuit' skulls began during his four years of dental schooling and
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Skull Study # 15
By Brent Estabrook
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Brent Estabrook’s ‘Frivolous Pursuit' skulls began during his four years of dental schooling and
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Skull Study # 16
By Brent Estabrook
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Brent Estabrook’s ‘Frivolous Pursuit' skulls began during his four years of dental schooling and
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Skull Study # 14
By Brent Estabrook
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Brent Estabrook’s ‘Frivolous Pursuit' skulls began during his four years of dental schooling and
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Skull Study # 12
By Brent Estabrook
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Brent Estabrook’s ‘Frivolous Pursuit' skulls began during his four years of dental schooling and
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Skull Spin Painting
By Damien Hirst
Located in Tbilisi, GE
Original Acrylic Painting on Paper - Unique original artwork - Signed in plate, stamped "This painting was made by [blank] to celebrate the opening of Damien Hirst, Requiem... Damien...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
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Skull Paintings For Sale on 1stDibs
An assortment of skull paintings is available on 1stDibs. There are many contemporary, abstract and modern versions of these works for sale. These items have been made for many years, with versions that date back to the 18th Century alongside those produced as recently as the 21st Century. Skull paintings available on 1stDibs span a range of colors that includes black, gray, brown, blue and more. There have been many well-done artworks of this subject over the years, but those made by Damien Hirst, Mike Ellis, Gary John, Brent Estabrook and Sax Berlin are often thought to be among the most beautiful. Each of these unique pieces was handmade with extraordinary care, with artists most often working in paint, oil paint and fabric. Some skull paintings are too large for some spaces — a variety of smaller iterations, measuring # 1 inches across, are available.
How Much are Skull Paintings?
Prices for pieces in our collection of skull paintings start at $1 and top out at $375,000 with the average selling for $2,708.
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Cave walls were the canvases for what were arguably the world’s first landscape paintings, which depict natural scenery through art. Portrait paintings and drawings, which, along with sculpture, were how someone’s appearance was recorded prior to the advent of photography, are at least as old as Ancient Egypt. In the Netherlands, landscapes were a major theme for painters as early as the 1500s. Later, artists in Greece, Rome and elsewhere created vast wall paintings to decorate stately homes, churches and tombs.
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