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Antique rabbit painting by Abel Hold, Victorian rabbit still life oil portrait
By Abel Hold
Located in AIGNAN, FR
Antique oil portrait painting of a rabbit by English artist Abel Hold (1815-1893), signed in the lower left corner A Hold. This atmospher...
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1860s Victorian Still-life Paintings

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Oil

Still Life with fruits - Oil Paint On Canvas - 17th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Still Life with fruits is an original oil on canvas realized in the 16th Century by an Italian School Master. Original oil painting on Canvas. The painting represents a still life...
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17th Century Baroque Still-life Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Still life with the sea in the background oil on canvas painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Carmen Espel (1926) - Still life with the sea in the background Oil on canvas - Hand signed Oil measures 54x73 cm. Frameless. Contemporary Barcelona pai...
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1980s Post-Impressionist Still-life Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Steeple Scene, Mixed Media on Paper Colorful Paris City Scene
Located in Atlanta, GA
Welcome to Heritage, our carefully curated collection of French vintage and antique paintings. We scour the flea markets and fairs for these gems: poignant portraits of long-gone Me...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Still-life Paintings

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Paper, Mixed Media, Watercolor

On The River, Mixed Media on Paper Colorful Paris City Scene
Located in Atlanta, GA
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Still-life Paintings

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Paper, Mixed Media, Watercolor

Parisian City Square, Mixed Media on Paper Colorful Paris City Scene
Located in Atlanta, GA
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Still-life Paintings

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Paper, Mixed Media, Watercolor

Parisian Stroll, Mixed Media on Paper Colorful Paris City Scene
Located in Atlanta, GA
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Still-life Paintings

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Paper, Mixed Media, Watercolor

French Rooftops, Mixed Media on Paper Colorful CItyscape of Paris
Located in Atlanta, GA
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Still-life Paintings

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Paper, Mixed Media, Watercolor

Touching Souls - Hyperrealist Floral Still Life Oil Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Inspired by paintings created by old masters and the immersive nature she experienced in the Black Forest, German artist Katharina Husslein paints in a representational hyperrealisti...
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2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Roses, Flowers, Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Ashot Muradyan Work: Original Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind Medium: Oil on Linen Year: 2024 Style: Classic Art, Subject: Roses, Size: 14" x 20" x 0.8'' inch, (...
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2010s Impressionist Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Pocket Pinky Red Pomegranate, Baroque Still Life, fruit
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Pinky Red Pomegranate 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 baroqu...
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2010s Realist Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Fish Oil Painting, Vintage still life fish & newspaper, sardines oil painting
Located in AIGNAN, FR
Rare vintage oil painting of sardines on French newspaper by French artist Lucie Tullat (1895-1984). A chiaroscuro painting, where the darkness of the background focuses your eye on...
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1950s Post-Impressionist Still-life Paintings

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Oil

Paysage de marais - Impressionist Riverscape Oil Painting by Alexandre Jacob
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed oil on canvas landscape circa 1940 by popular French impressionist painter Alexandre Louis Jacob. The piece depicts an autumnal landscape of marshland beside the River Seine i...
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1940s Impressionist Still-life Paintings

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Oil, Board

High Tea, Framed Oil on Canvas Colorful Still Life With Pink, Fruit, Teapot
Located in Atlanta, GA
Unframed this piece measures 15"H x 18"W Welcome to Heritage, our carefully curated collection of French vintage and antique paintings. We scour the flea markets and fairs for thes...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

The River Seine, Mixed Media on Paper Colorful CItyscape of Paris
Located in Atlanta, GA
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Still-life Paintings

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Paper, Mixed Media, Watercolor

Abstracted Floral Still Life
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstract Expressionist Still Life with White Flowers Vibrant still life by Ilana Ingber (American, b. 1984). This piece has bright pink, yellow, and orange floral shapes that pop ou...
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2010s Abstract Impressionist Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic, Stretcher Bars

We'll Always Have Paris, Mixed Media on Paper Colorful Paris City Scene
Located in Atlanta, GA
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Still-life Paintings

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Mixed Media, Paper, Watercolor

Abstract Expressionist Still Life with White Flowers
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstract Expressionist Still Life with White Flowers Vibrant still life by Ilana Ingber (American, b. 1984). This piece has white and soft pink flowers that pop out from a bold blue...
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2010s Abstract Impressionist Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic, Stretcher Bars

Incredible Antique American Abstract Expressionist Flower Study Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Rare original abstract painting by Eric Chan. Oil on canvas.
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Early 2000s Abstract Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Vintage American Modernist Abstract Cubist Still Life Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very impressive mid 20th century cubist abstract still life. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed. Great color.
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1950s Cubist Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Vintage American Modernist Abstract Cubist Still Life Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very impressive mid 20th century cubist abstract. Oil on canvas. Framed.
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1950s Cubist Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Abstract Visage VI" Oil Painting 24" x 20" inch by Ashraf Zamzami
Located in Culver City, CA
"Abstract Visage VI" Oil Painting 24" x 20" inch by Ashraf Zamzami ABOUT A characteristically bold and optimistic palette does not belie the inescapably pensive nature and at times...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Tableware" Oil Painting 24" x 20" inch by Ashraf Zamzami
Located in Culver City, CA
"Tableware" Oil Painting 24" x 20" inch by Ashraf Zamzami ABOUT A characteristically bold and optimistic palette does not belie the inescapably pensive nature and at times, incompr...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

C Sørensen, Still Life With Trollius, Tea Cup & Books, Oil Painting
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This charming early 20th-century oil painting by Danish artist C Sørensen depicts an arrangement of trollius with a vase, tea cup and books. Little is known about C Sørensen, which ...
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1930s Photorealist Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Victor Simonin, Vase de Fleurs, Oil Painting
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This early to mid-20th-century oil painting by Belgian artist Victor Simonin (1877-1946) depicts a vase of red and pink flowers. Described as a “tender bohemian”, Simonin was predom...
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1930s Impressionist Still-life Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Gallifa Muse - Lush Green Spanish Landscape with Miró Sculpture, Oil on Panel
Located in Chicago, IL
The lush green landscape of Carol Pylant's painting titled "Gallifa Muse" invites us to explore. The Miro Sculpture in the foreground draws our eyes upward toward the mist blanketin...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Oil, Panel

"AUF WIEDERSEHEN" Abstract Painting 24" x 18" inch by Isaac Pelayo
Located in Culver City, CA
"AUF WIEDERSEHEN" Abstract Painting 24" x 18" inch by Isaac Pelayo Medium: Oil, oil stick, and aerosol on wood ABOUT THE ARTIST: Isaac Pelayo is a head on crash collision betwee...
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21st Century and Contemporary Baroque Still-life Paintings

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Wood, Oil Crayon, Oil, Spray Paint

Nocturnal Nature (Still Life Painting of Colorful Flowers on Indigo Blue)
Located in Hudson, NY
Realistic still life painting of pastel colored flowers on dark blue Hand-painted cyanotype by Julia Whitney Barnes "Nocturnal Nature (Anemone, Passionflower, Buttercup, Ferns, Polli...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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India Ink, Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper

Bouquet of Roses, Flowers Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Ashot Muradyan Work: Original Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind Medium: Oil on Linen Year: 2024 Style: Classic Art, Subject: Bouquet of Roses, Size: 24.5" x 30" x 0...
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2010s Impressionist Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Vaso di Lillà" Olio su Tela cm. 66 x 59
Located in Torino, IT
Vaso di lillà viola con fondo scuro che fa un effetto 3D , il vaso e i fiori molto materici danno l'impressione di fuori uscire dall'opera.
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Early 2000s Post-Impressionist Still-life Paintings

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Oil

Théière et Citron by Georges Braque - Still life painting
Located in London, GB
Théière et Citron by Georges Braque (1882-1963) Oil on panel 22.5 x 25 cm (8 ⅞ x 9 ⅞ inches) Signed lower left, G. Braque Executed in 1947 Provenance: Perls Galleries, New York Fuji...
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1940s Cubist Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Art Deco Pink Roses in Blue Vase Original Oil Still Life Painting
Located in Soquel, CA
1937 Art Deco Original Oil Still Life of Pink Roses in Blue Vase Wonderful example of an art deco still life painting by E.J. Ball (American 20th Century) signed and dated "1937." T...
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1930s Art Deco Still-life Paintings

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Oil, Illustration Board

"Las Metas Pequeńas" (FRAMED) Painting 21" x 20.5" inch by Antonio Pelayo
Located in Culver City, CA
"Las Metas Pequeńas" (FRAMED) Painting 21" x 20.5" inch by Antonio Pelayo Medium: Pencil on Paper. Acrylic Ink & Paint on Animation Acetate Image size: 15" x 15" inch Size framed...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Ink, Acrylic

Pocket Bumble Bee 3, Baroque Still Life, Insect, Animals, Affordable art, Spring
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Bumble Bee 3 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 Realist Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Cafetiere Blanche - Mid 20th Century Cubist Modernist Oil on Board Painting
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
A beautiful signed and dated 1957 French cubist oil on board depicting a white coffee pot and cup of coffee. Presented in its original fabric and gilt wood frame. A lovely original ...
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1950s Cubist Still-life Paintings

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Oil, Board

Pocket White Anemone, Original Painting, Baroque style, Realism
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket White Anemone 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 ...
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2010s Realist Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

A Camden Town Still Life
Located in Wenham, MA
This piece is an original oil painting on panel by American Artist Ginny (GC) Williams. The piece is titled, A Camden Town Still Life. Camden Town was a lively center for artists in ...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings

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Oil

Pocket Song Sparrow Egg, Baroque Still Life, Birds, Animals, Nature, Affordable
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Song Sparrow 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 baroque sti...
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2010s Realist Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

1953 Mid-Century Modernist Still Life Painting - Pears & Grapes, Eric Cederberg
Located in Bristol, GB
PEARS & GRAPES Size: 36.5 x 57 cm (including frame) Tempera on Board A brilliantly executed mid-century still life painting in tempera, painted in 1953 by the established Swedish ar...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Still-life Paintings

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Tempera, Board

Nocturnal Nature (Still Life Painting of Colorful Flowers on Indigo Blue)
Located in Hudson, NY
Realistic still life painting of bright flowers on dark blue Hand-painted cyanotype by Julia Whitney Barnes "Nocturnal Nature (Poppies, Clematis, Fennel)" made in 2023 Image dimensio...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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India Ink, Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper

Vincent Le Vaudois, Still Life With Jugs, Bottle, Fruit & Newspaper
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This early to mid-20th-century oil painting by ‘Vincent Le Vaudois’ depicts a still life with an assortment of objects including jugs, bottle, bowl, fruit, tablecloth, basket and new...
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1930s French School Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

The Silk Hat oil on canvas by Arna Brittin
Located in Hudson, NY
An exceptional cubist oil painting by Arna Brittin. The painting retains its original frame, and was exhibited at the Minneapolis Institute of Art Annual Exhibition in 1927. The Si...
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1920s Cubist Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Chrysanthemums in a Green Pot - Modern British Flowers Still Life Oil Painting
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
A beautiful large signed and dated 1940 modern British oil on canvas by Patricia Fell-Clark, the painter and novelist known for introducing the Beatles to Ravi Shankar. The work dep...
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1940s Modern Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Vintage American Modernist Hat Rack Signed Interior Scene Framed Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted mid century modernist interior view. Finely painted. Framed.
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1960s Modern Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Lanternes du Japon" Olio cm. 46 x 38 1910 ca
Located in Torino, IT
Luminoso quadro con mazzo di fiori arancioni su fondo verde
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Early 1900s Post-Impressionist Still-life Paintings

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Oil

Antique Fauvist "Still Life with Flowers and Skull" Louis Mathieu Verdilhan
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Antique Fauvist Vanitas "Still Life with Flowers and Skull" Louis Mathieu Verdilhan (Provence, France, 1875-1928) Circa 1910 Oil on canvas on ...
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Early 1900s Fauvist Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Wood, Oil

Simka Simkhovitch WPA W/C Painting Gouache American Modernist Bouquet of Flowers
Located in Surfside, FL
Simka Simkhovitch (Russian/American 1893 - 1949) This came with a small grouping from the artist's family, some were hand signed some were not. These were studies for larger paintings. This is a miniature watercolor and gouache vibrant, colorful bouquet of flowers in a vase. Simka Simkhovitch (Симха Файбусович Симхович) (aka Simka Faibusovich Simkhovich) (Novozybkov, Russia May 21, 1885 O.S./June 2, 1885 N.S.—Greenwich, Connecticut February 25, 1949) was a Ukrainian-Russian Jewish artist and immigrant to the United States. He painted theater scenery in his early career and then had several showings in galleries in New York City. Winning Works Progress Administration (WPA) commissions in the 1930s, he completed murals for the post offices in Jackson, Mississippi and Beaufort, North Carolina. His works are in the permanent collections of the Dallas Museum of Art, the National Museum of American Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Born outside Kyiv (Petrograd Ukraine) into a Jewish family who owned a small department store. During a severe case of measles when he was seven, Simcha Simchovitch sketched the views outside his window and decided to become an artist, over his father's objections. Beginning in 1905, he studied at the Grekov Odessa Art School and upon completion of his studies in 1911 received a recommendation to be admitted to the Imperial Academy of Arts. Though he enrolled to begin classes in architecture, painting, and sculpture at the Imperial Academy, he was dropped from the school roster in December because of the quota on the number of Jewish students and drafted into the army. Simchovitch served as a private in the 175th Infantry Regiment Baturyn [ru] until his demobilization in 1912. Re-enrolling in the Imperial Academy, he audited classes. Simka Simkhovitch exhibited paintings and sculptures in 1918 as part of an exhibition of Jewish artists and in 1919 placed 1st in the competition "The Great Russian Revolution" with a painting called "Russian Revolution" which was hung in the State Museum of Revolution. In 1922, Simkha Simkhovitch exhibited at the International Book Fair in Florence (Italian: Fiera Internazionale del Libro di Firenze). In 1924, Simkhovitch came to the United States to make illustrations for Soviet textbooks and decided to immigrate instead. Initially he supported himself by doing commercial art and a few portrait commissions. In 1927, he was hired to paint a screen for a scene in the play "The Command to Love" by Fritz Gottwald and Rudolph Lothar which was playing at the Longacre Theatre on Broadway. Art dealers began clamoring for the screen and Simkhovitch began a career as a screen painter for the theater. Catching the attention of the screenwriter, Ernest Pascal, he worked as an illustrator for Pascal, who then introduced him to gallery owner, Marie Sterner. Simkhovitch's works appeared at the Marie Sterner Gallery beginning with a 1927 exhibit and were repeated the following year. Simkhovitch had an exhibit in 1929 at Sterner's on circus paintings. In 1931, he held a showing of works at the Helen Hackett Gallery, in New York City and later that same year he was one of the featured artists of a special exhibit in San Francisco at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor in Lincoln Park. The exhibit was coordinated by Marie Sterner and included four watercolors, including one titled "Nudes". He is of the generation of Russian Soviet artists such as Isaac Pailes, Serge Charchoune, Marc Chagall, Chana Orloff, Isaac Ilyich Levitan, and Ossip Zadkine. In 1936, Simkhovitch was selected to complete the mural for the WPA Post office project in Jackson, Mississippi. The mural was hung in the post office and courthouse in 1938 depicted a plantation theme. Painted on the wall behind the judge’s bench, “Pursuits of Life in Mississippi”, a depiction of black workers engaged in manual labor amid scenes of white professionals and socialites, was eventually covered over in later years during renovations due to its stereotypical African American imagery. Simka painted what he thought was typical of Jackson. His impression of pre-civil rights Mississippi was evidently Greek Revival column houses, weeping willow trees, working class families, and the oppression of African Americans. He painted African American men picking cotton, while a white man took account of the harvest and a white judge advised a white family, calling it Pursuits of Life in Mississippi. Though clearly endorsed by the government and initially generally well-received, the mural soon raised concerns with locals as the climate toward racial segregation began to change. The main concern was whether depictions that show African Americans in subjugated societal roles should be featured in a courtroom. The following year, his painting "Holiday" won praise at an exhibition in Lincoln, Nebraska. In 1940, Simkhovitch's second WPA post office project was completed when four murals, "The Cape Lookout Lighthouse and the Orville W. Mail Boat", "The Wreck of the Crissie Wright", "Sand Ponies" and "Canada Geese" were installed in Beaufort, North Carolina. The works were commissioned in 1938 and did not generate the controversy that the Jackson mural had. The main mural is "The Wreck of the Crissie Wright" and depicts a shipwreck which had occurred in Beaufort in 1866. "The Cape Lookout Lighthouse and the Orville W. Mail Boat" depicted the lighthouse built in 1859 and the mail boat that was running mail during the time which Simkhovitch was there. The boat ran mail for the area until 1957. "Sand Ponies" shows the wild horses common to the North Carolina barrier islands and "Canada Geese" showed the importance of hunting and fishing in the area. All four murals were restored in the 1990s by Elisabeth Speight, daughter of two other WPA muralists, Francis Speight...
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1930s American Modern Still-life Paintings

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Gouache, Board, Watercolor

Pocket Autumn Collection Autumn leaf #3 [2024], Baroque Still Life, Small art
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Autumn Leaf Collection (Pinky Ochre) 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 Realist Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Blue Vase Red Flowers” - Vibrant Still-Life - Floral Painting
Located in Carmel, CA
Bernard Payet was born in Lyon in 1950 and spent all his childhood in France. He studied and trained at the Academie ALPA of Lyon from 1974-1976, having been inspired by his visits t...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Ontario Summer Painting - Colorful Impressionist Still Life, Oil Painting
Located in Chicago, IL
Carol Stewart Ontario Summer Painting oil on paper on panel 24 x 20w in 60.96h x 50.80w cm CST010 Through her ethereal and often dreamlike paintings Car...
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2010s Impressionist Still-life Paintings

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Panel, Oil, Archival Paper

Vintage Still Life Dog Birds & Fruit Oil Painting On Wood
Located in Jacksonville, FL
Behold this enchanting vintage still life oil painting on wood, a composition that harmoniously blends elements of nature and artistry. The canvas comes alive with the timeless charm...
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20th Century Realist Still-life Paintings

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Wood Panel, Oil

Blue Painting with Amaryllis - Colorful Impressionist Still Life Oil Painting
Located in Chicago, IL
Carol Stewart Late Afternoon, February oil on paper on panel 59.50h x 40w in 51.13h x 101.60w cm CST011 Through her ethereal and often dreamlike paintin...
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2010s Impressionist Still-life Paintings

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Oil, Panel, Archival Paper

Stacked Fabric, Mandarin - Vibrant Patterns, Reflective Glass & an Orange
Located in Chicago, IL
I am interested in the abstract elements of the art work as much as the subject matter. My still life paintings are not still. I feel that my paintings are lasting over time and invite repeated exploration. –Carol Stewart...
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2010s Impressionist Still-life Paintings

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Panel, Oil, Archival Paper

Coneflower, Rudbeckia - Colorful Floral Still Life Oil on Panel Painting
Located in Chicago, IL
Carol Stewart Coneflower, Rudbeckia oil on paper on panel 11h x 18w in 27.94h x 45.72w cm CST008 Through her ethereal and often dreamlike paintings Caro...
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2010s Impressionist Still-life Paintings

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Panel, Oil, Archival Paper

Pansy and Patterns - Vibrantly Patterned Fabric, Reflective Glassware & a Pansy
Located in Chicago, IL
"Patterns and Pansy" by Carol Stewart is a small abstracted still life painting with vibrantly patterned fabrics. In front sits a small glass dome and a ...
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2010s Impressionist Still-life Paintings

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Panel, Oil, Archival Paper

"Unitled" Abstract painting 48" x 36" inch by Jason REVOK
Located in Culver City, CA
"Unitled" Abstract painting 48" x 36" inch by Jason REVOK Entirely self-taught, Jason REVOK is known for pushing creative boundaries that began in the str...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Yellow Cab Madison Square Garden
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Khawam’s first genre of paintings started in 1980 during the heights of the Superrealism movement in New York City where Khawam was the youngest among the group and in his first year...
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1980s American Modern Still-life Paintings

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Acrylic

Zinnia, Kumquats - Still Life with Colorful Fabrics & Reflective Glassware
Located in Chicago, IL
The simple title of "Zinnia, Kumquat" is quite deceiving. By placing reflective, highly pattern objects and everyday item together, artist Carol Stewart...
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2010s Impressionist Still-life Paintings

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Oil, Panel, Archival Paper

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Still-life paintings work as part of the decor in nearly every type of 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, still-life paintings frequently 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 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 and plants that were the subject of their work.

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.

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

As part of the wall decor in your living room, dining room or elsewhere, a still-life painting can look sophisticated alongside your well-curated decorative objects and can help set the mood in a space.

When shopping for a still-life painting, 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, find a collection of still-life paintings in a wide range of styles and subject matter.

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