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Lollipop, Photorealist Pop Art Painting of Santos, Postal Scale and Parrot Skull
By Matthew Bober
Located in Brooklyn, NY
figure that has been painted like a harlequin holding a lollipop. A parrot skull sits atop an antique
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Ink, Muscular Male Nude with Intricate Floral and Skull Back Tattoo, Framed
By Richard Gibbons
Located in Chicago, IL
tattoo consisting of floral patterns and a skull. His arms are positioned to intensify his muscular
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Panel
Realist Georgia O’Keefe Style Surrealist Ram Skull Desert Painting with Flowers
Located in Houston, TX
Georgia O'Keefe style painting of a floating rams skull with flowers against a desert background
Category
1970s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
A Witch
s Still Life (2022), oil painting on canvas, earth tones, skull, flowers
By Delilah Ray Miske
Located in Jersey City, NJ
A Witch's Still Life (2022), oil painting on canvas, earth tones, skull, flowers, vase, tincture
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vanitas - Original Oil Painting of a Human Skull in 17th Century Dutch Style
By Matthew Cook
Located in Chicago, IL
This extraordinary painting of a human skull is created in the 16th or 17th century Dutch style
Category
2010s Old Masters Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Trompe L
Oeil American Flag Animal Skull Pop Art Oil Painting by James Carter
By James Carter
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American flag and skull painting by James Carter (born 1948). Oil on board, circa 1997
Category
1990s Pop Art Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Skull with Book, Venetian Glass, Rummer, Knife and Pocket Watch Dutch Still-Life
By Cornelis Le Mair
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Cornelis le Mair (Eindhoven, July 3rd 1944) is a Dutch painter. This Romantic painter is famous because of his 17th century paintings. As a child, Le Mair already developed a talent ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vanitas II - Original Oil Painting of a Human Skull in 17th Century Dutch Style
By Matthew Cook
Located in Chicago, IL
This extraordinary painting of a human skull is created in the 16th or 17th century Dutch style
Category
2010s Old Masters Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Life in 2020
Located in Denver, CO
Human Skull held with Blue background
Category
2010s Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Tomorrow
By Rebecca Johnson
Located in Jersey City, NJ
Hand, skull, flower, snake and text motif on found wooden scalloped edge plate.
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wood, Chalk, Varnish, Acrylic
Still Holding On
By Chris RWK
Located in Jersey City, NJ
, Chris RWK, birds, green, blue, comics, skulls, purple, grey, miniature, spray paint, paint marker
Category
2010s Street Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Found Objects, Spray Paint, Acrylic, Magazine Paper, Permanent M...
"Teeth" Skeletal Portrait with Gold Leaf
Located in Houston, TX
. Painting represents the side angle of a mans face portraying an X-Ray of his skull. Signed in lower right
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Penitent Magdalene, Oil painting on canvas, 1600s
Located in Milan, IT
her hand on the skull, symbol of the "memento mori". On the first canvas.
Category
17th Century Other Art Style Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
"SOS" Contemporary Surrealist Blue Tonal Painting
By Henry David Potwin
Located in Houston, TX
This conceptually impressionistic piece showcases a large light blue skull with highlights of
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Penitent Magdalene Oil on Canvas Flemish School 17th Century
Located in Milan, IT
ecstasy; next to her there is a skull, symbol of " momento mori", that recalls to the transience of life
Category
17th Century Other Art Style Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Together We Will (2022), Chris RWK street art, aerosol graffiti, comics, heart
By Chris RWK
Located in Jersey City, NJ
"Together We Will" (2022), Chris RWK street art, aerosol graffiti, comics, bird, halo, star, skull
Category
2010s Street Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Spray Paint, Acrylic, Magazine Paper, Permanent Marker
The Respite -minimalist grey and blue wabi-sabi bird painting oil on canvas
By Mike Ellis
Located in London, GB
bones and digging up skulls, led to a continued fascination with the fragile and fleeting nature of
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
The Message -minimalist brown and blue wabi-sabi bird painting oil on canvas
By Mike Ellis
Located in London, GB
bones and digging up skulls, led to a continued fascination with the fragile and fleeting nature of
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Vanitas Themed Painting with a Clock
Located in Houston, TX
depart." The putti (cherub) sits next to a skull and a candle which are popular vanitas symbols in 16th
Category
18th Century Renaissance Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Pieta" (2014) By John Tarantola, Surrealistic Nude Portrait Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
stone altar while the other lays in death on his lap. A skull is carefully placed between the altar and
Category
2010s Surrealist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Damien Hirst, For the Love of God - Laugh, (2007)
By Damien Hirst
Located in New York, NY
: Damien Hirst’s ‘For the Love of God' (2007), a diamond-encrusted platinum skull. Damien Hirst intended
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Prints and Multiples
Materials
Glaze, Glitter, Screen
Mid-17th-Century Neapolitan School, Saint Jerome In Penitence
Located in Cheltenham, GB
Italy, depicts Saint Jerome in penitence with a skull and sleeping lion. It’s reminiscent of
Category
1640s Italian School Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Modern Style Painting, "Art Brut Tribute"
By Peter Geise
Located in San Diego, CA
delivery of this artwork.
The artist has used depicted a form of a tree with skulls on the branches
Category
2010s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Wood Panel
The Owner of Everything Painting
Located in OIA, ES
central grouping of a vase and skull with a large X on it serves as a reminder of the fragility of life
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Enamel
For the Love of God- Laugh
By Damien Hirst
Located in New York, NY
: Damien Hirst’s ‘For the Love of God' (2007), a diamond-encrusted platinum skull. Damien Hirst intended
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Prints and Multiples
Materials
Glaze, Glitter, Screen
Surrealist Contemporary Painting, "Ghost Cicada"
By Charlene Mosley
Located in San Diego, CA
paint on canvas and comes framed.
The artist has depicted a cicada with the face of a skull. This
Category
2010s Surrealist Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Saint Francis In Meditation Oil On Canvas 18th Century
Located in Milan, IT
in front of the Cross, in a deserted place and with a skull in his hands, the memento mori, to
Category
18th Century Other Art Style Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Helios - contemporary realistic mythology sun flying bird oil painting
By Mike Ellis
Located in London, GB
digging up skulls, led to a continued fascination with the fragile and fleeting nature of birds; something
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Convergence - contemporary realism flying swifts birds oil painting on canvas
By Mike Ellis
Located in London, GB
digging up skulls, led to a continued fascination with the fragile and fleeting nature of birds; something
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Rapture - contemporary realistic flying bird shadow grey oil painting canvas
By Mike Ellis
Located in London, GB
digging up skulls, led to a continued fascination with the fragile and fleeting nature of birds; something
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Elysium -minimalist grey and blue wabi-sabi bird painting oil on canvas
By Mike Ellis
Located in London, GB
skulls, led to a continued fascination with the fragile and fleeting nature of birds; something that I
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Harmony of One - contemporary realism bird painting oil on wood panel
By Mike Ellis
Located in London, GB
digging up skulls, led to a continued fascination with the fragile and fleeting nature of birds; something
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Interlude
By Mike Ellis
Located in London, GB
digging up skulls, led to a continued fascination with the fragile and fleeting nature of birds; something
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Calling
By Mike Ellis
Located in London, GB
digging up skulls, led to a continued fascination with the fragile and fleeting nature of birds; something
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
America
By Marc Dennis
Located in Denver, CO
history. Hidden symbols of white nationalism, as well as a skull-shaped bloom and mysterious disembodied
Category
2010s Photorealist Animal Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
$84,000
Crypto Vincent Van Gogh Avatar.
Located in OIA, ES
emblazoned with a striking skull design, and he wears a gas mask, reflecting themes of anonymity and
Category
2010s Street Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Still life. Oil on canvas figurative painting, vibrant, Polish female artist
Located in Warsaw, PL
life with vegetables, animal skull, glass and plants in pots. Colors are vibrant and orange is
Category
1990s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Early 18th-Century Flemish School, Christ On The Cross With Mary Magdalene
Located in Cheltenham, GB
moment of utmost suffering tempered by enduring love. In the foreground, a partial skull is a conspicuous
Category
1720s Flemish School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
“Frontier Land, Death on the North Plane” Abstract Figures Mixed Media Collage
Located in Houston, TX
body (like skulls, eyeballs, muscles, etc.) and was created by Texas artist, Patrick Turk.
Artist
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Safety in Numbers" (Abstract, Contemporary, Framed, Type, Text, Gallery Glass)
By Nicholas Evans
Located in Paris, IDF
safety in following the crowd. Four gazelle skulls are stacked together with handwritten vignettes
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Glass, Wood, Acrylic
Pineapple Sunset, oil painting, interiors, bright, neon, pink, orange, yellow
By Max Vesuvius Budnick
Located in Jersey City, NJ
background. A blue chair and a gray chair at the table sit in front of a brown wooden door. A skull
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Graphite
Standing Man
By Hans Burkhardt
Located in Los Angeles, CA
collage style skull paintings of the 1980s. Burkhardt truly carries Modernism to a new level of profound
Category
1950s Cubist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Standing Nude
By Hans Burkhardt
Located in Los Angeles, CA
collage style skull paintings of the 1980s. Burkhardt truly carries Modernism to a new level of profound
Category
1970s Cubist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Nude in Studio
By Hans Burkhardt
Located in Los Angeles, CA
skull paintings of the 1980s. Burkhardt truly carries Modernism to a new level of profound psychological
Category
1960s Cubist Nude Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Pastel
Sitting Nude
By Hans Burkhardt
Located in Los Angeles, CA
changes from early pastel nudes to Arshille Gorky’s influence and finally to his collage style skull
Category
1960s Cubist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Figures
By Hans Burkhardt
Located in Los Angeles, CA
collage style skull paintings of the 1980s. Burkhardt truly carries Modernism to a new level of profound
Category
1960s Cubist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Pastel
$2,650
St Mary Magdalena After Pompeo Batoni
Located in Pasadena, CA
reading a book propped up by a human skull. Hints of a mountainous landscape in the distance can be seen
Category
Early 19th Century Italian School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Tell Me Everything, " Oil Painting
By Shawn Sullivan
Located in Denver, CO
gray colored bird perched on the teeth of a human skull in the background. Painted in trompe-l'œil
Category
2010s Surrealist Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Vincent Van Gogh, Laser Eyes.
Located in OIA, ES
adorned with a striking skull motif, complemented by a heavy link chain necklace. This ensemble mirrors
Category
2010s Street Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Helios III - Bird in Flight / Oil Painting on Canvas
By Mike Ellis
Located in London, GB
animals, collecting bones and digging up skulls, led to a continued fascination with the fragile and
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
18th-Century Dutch School, Portrait Of A 17th-Century Cleric, Oil Painting
Located in Cheltenham, GB
skull cap. His attire matches the expectations of the 1650s/1660s and he feels a little Dutch in
Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sojourners - contemporary realistic birds swifts sitting oil painting
By Mike Ellis
Located in London, GB
animals, collecting bones and digging up skulls, led to a continued fascination with the fragile and
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Aurous - contemporary hyper-realistic flying bird Goldfinch oil painting canvas
By Mike Ellis
Located in London, GB
animals, collecting bones and digging up skulls, led to a continued fascination with the fragile and
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Lion on Le Corbusier Lounge" large scale contemporary surrealist watercolor
By Thomas Broadbent
Located in New York, NY
antelope skull.
Thomas Broadbent has shown extensively throughout the U.S. as well as internationally
Category
2010s Surrealist Animal Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
"TOTEM", oil painting on canvas, archeology, stone, grass, red, turquoise, ruin
By Anna Ortiz
Located in Toronto, Ontario
characteristic treatment of color and form – the foreground rocks in the shape of heads, possibly skulls, all in
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Torch Bearer
By Mike Ellis
Located in London, GB
digging up skulls, led to a continued fascination with the fragile and fleeting nature of birds; something
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Heralds of Spring
By Mike Ellis
Located in London, GB
digging up skulls, led to a continued fascination with the fragile and fleeting nature of birds; something
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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