Still-life Paintings
Still-life Paintings For Sale
Color: Brown
"Home and Food"
Located in Singapore, SG
Mass migration and expression of human struggle during his times.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Still Life on Wood
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
Very fun painting by artist, Ekaterina Bokotey, a graduate of the prestigious Repin Academy in St. Petersburg.
The whimsical, well-painted tells the story of a serious fly fisherm...
Category
2010s Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Botanical Study with Rose
Located in London, GB
Oil on board
Image size: 6 3/4 x 9 1/2 inches (17 x 24 cm)
This delicate botanical study evokes the printed and painted flora that historically have been used as pattern books by artists and designers such as William Morris and Alexander MccQueen. This artwork paces emphasis on the aesthetic value of the plant while remaining scientifically and botanically correct. It reflects an intimate knowledge and understanding of the subject based on firsthand observation by the artist. Indeed, Sergeant has here sought out to understand the structure of the plant and to communicate it to her audience in an aesthetically pleasing manner.
'The greatest flower artists...
Category
20th Century Naturalistic Still-life Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Spanish 18th C. Oil on Canvas"Still Life with Walnuts, Melon, Grapes and Orange"
Located in Madrid, ES
SPANISH SCHOOL
18th CENTURY
STILL LIFE WITH WALNUTS, MELON, GRAPES AND ORANGE
unsigned
oil on canvas
15-3/4 x 21 inches (40 x 53 cm.)
framed: 24-1/2 x 28-3/4 inches (62 x 72.5 cm.)
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Category
18th Century Baroque Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
YELLOW, GREEN, BLACK, WHITE - Contemporary Realism / Still Life Color Apples
Located in New York, NY
Original still life painting by Edward A. Butler.
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Still Life with Old Sunflowers
Located in Gloucester, MA
Timothy Harney's emotionally powerful paintings, drawings, and collages possess an exceptional formal excellence which propels them beyond the particula...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
"Untitled" - Agave, pink and green, organic, nature, Mexican, figurative paint
Located in Ciudad de México, MX
Daniel Berman's production is not only torrential and overflowing but also mutating as if it were a chameleon, it changes to support and scale to explore the possibilities of each te...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Full Palette
By Jim Molloy
Located in New York, NY
Oil painting on wood panel. Building blocks. A glimpse into a child's world, one we all have experienced. Tone is engaging, fun with universal appeal.
About the artist:
Mollo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
"Still Life with Green Shade"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Illustrated in "Joseph Barrett, The Prime Years 1970s - 1990s", pg. 23 Plate #026
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by:
Joseph Barrett (1936 – )
Joseph Bar...
Category
Late 20th Century American Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
BEACH HOUSE - Hyperrealism / Portrait of crab with conch shell on the beach
By Will Wilson
Located in New York, NY
Will Wilson is an American artist known for portrait paintings, illustrations and Trompe L'Oeil works. His works have been acquired by museums, well-known corporate collections, and ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
The Frontersman
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Acrylic on Plywood
Dimensions: 15.00" x 24.00"
Signature: Signed Upper Right
Category
Mid-20th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Plywood, Acrylic
Still Life with Secret
Located in Lincoln, MA
Category
Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Still Life aux Legumes et Poisson
Located in Sheffield, MA
Georges Georoy
Belgium, 1906–1983
Still Life aux Legumes et Poisson
Oil on canvas
23 ¾ in. by 28 ¾ in. W/frame 31 ¾ in. by 36 ¾ in.
Signed lower right
In a period Heydenryk frame
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Category
1960s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Fruit Bowl #1
By Mikel Alatza
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Alatza paints dynamic and energetic portraits of people, tongue-in-cheek scenes and vibrant still lifes. With forms contorted in a full-tilt, floor-to-ceiling, wall-to-wall assault,...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Plywood
'Red Roses and a Lemon', California, Post-Impressionist, Esalen Institute
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed, verso, 'Ant McNaught' for Anthony McNaught (American, born 1952), titled 'Still Life with Lemon', dated 2018 and inscribed, 'After Pablo Picasso'.
This California Post-Impressionist and Abstract Expressionist studied at Big Sur's Esalen Institute with Erin Gafill...
Category
2010s Expressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Cook Kids Gum
Located in Denver, CO
"Cook Kids Gum," is an original oil painting by Christy Stallop. It is framed and ready-to-hang.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
French Mid Century Still Life, Tablescape, Nature Morte
Located in Cotignac, FR
Large scale mid 20th Century French, oil on board, still life, tablescape, interior view, by Claude Barthélémy. Signed bottom left, presented in fine carved wood and gilt frame, with...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Bunch of Flowers, Painting Post-impressionist Circa 1930
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
GOBILLARD Paule (1869 - 1946)
Bunch of Flowers
Oil on canvas signed low right
Framed with gold leaves
Dim canvas : 47 X 39 cm
Dim frame : 67 X 59 cm
GOBILLARD Paule (1869 - 1946)
...
Category
1930s Post-Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Glittering Autumn, Nicky Chubb, Original Tree Painting, Bright Contemporary Art
By Nicky Chubb
Located in Deddington, GB
Glittering Autumn by Nicky Chubb [2022]
Signed by the artist
Acrylic on Canvas
Image size: H:100 cm x W:100 cm x D:4cm
Please note that insitu images are purely an indication of how ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Resin, Acrylic
"Elegant Still Life of Two White, Gold and Blue Cups on Orange and Off White"
Located in Wellesley, MA
Olga Antonova
"Elegant Still Life of Two White, Gold and Blue Cups on Orange and Off White"
Oil on Canvas
10 x 10 Inches
Olga Antonova’s subject is compositions of extraordinarily elegant, beautiful and whimsical cups, plates, teapots, vases and dishes, but there is something playful about these paintings. Stacked teacups are also amusing, having a kind of jaunty and upbeat personality of their own. Polka dots are as endearing to adults as to children, and everyone responds to the bling and sparkle of gold and silver while marveling at Antonova’s seemingly effortless ability to paint these radiant...
Category
2010s Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Flower Garland Virgin Paint Oil on canvas Old master 17th Century Italy
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Giovanni Stanchi (Rome 1608 - 1675) or Niccolò Stanchi (Rome 1623 - 1690), workshop of
GARLAND OF FLOWERS WITH PORTRAIT OF THE VIRGIN
Rome, First half of the Seventeenth century
o...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Fauvist Mid Century Floral Impasto Still Life
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous mid-century painting of heavily textured Ranunculus flowers in a blue vase by Bonnie Yankauer (American, 20th Century), 1964. The palette and impasto brush strokes gives thi...
Category
1960s Fauvist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Amanda Horvath, Golden Evening Light, Original Painting, Contemporary Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Amanda Horvath
Golden Evening Light
Original Acrylic Painting on Canvas
Acrylics on canvas
Image size: 71cm x 71cm x 2cm
Framed size: 87cm x 87cm x 5cm
(Please note that in situ imag...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Untitled
By Richard Pousette-Dart
Located in Miami, FL
Acrylic on masonite. This is a pivotal work in deep and radiant cobalt blue from 1950. It dipicts calligraphic and hieroglyph structures over a grid and pyramidal base by the first generation abstract expressionist.
Provenance: Skinner: November 13, 1992 [Lot 00219}, The entry in the Skinner catalog indicates that the painting came directly from the artist to the family of the consignor to Skinner. Kaminsky Auctions. There is an unbroken paper trail that traces the ownership of the painting from the current owner, through two auction houses to the artist. Perfect unbroken provenance.
Pousette-Dart was among the most inventive of the Abstract Expressionist generation, His uncanny talent was to expand the nature of abstraction and still make each mark each element very much his own; a reflection of what he called "the concealed power of the spirit," he said, “not of the brute physical form." His was not aiming for a singular, realized aesthetic formula but to expand the possibilities of painting; the transcendental in painting. Typical of such invention and exploration is this painting Untitled 1950 when the artist was only 34 years old and represented by one of the champions of the new American painting, Betty Parsons.
A banner year for Pousette-Dart, the Museum of Modern Art acquired their first painting by the Minnesota born artist. He worked on easel size works such as this painting an oil on masonite. At the same time Pousette-Dart was also working on larger scale works such as Path of the Hero, running over ten feet in length now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Both contain fields of color articulated by a highly sophisticated white hieroglyphic vocabulary. Rather than demonstrate an expressionist sensibility, Pousette-Dart harnesses his more cerebral ideas transforming thick areas of paint into a more refined composition of geometric forms akin to the pattern and forms of say a stained glass window. In a way he is looking back at Fugue, 1940 a black and white composition which makes use of a similar format of painting albeit smaller. Color and form are minimal, but what Pousette-Dart has maximized is the rhythmic and syncopated character of painting casting his ideas into purely symbolic terms that one might link to the pictograms of Adolph Gottlieb. Nonetheless, nature is always at the core of Pousette-Dart’s thinking and dreaming. Here he has transformed the local Ramapo Mountains—where he will eventually move with his family to live and work— into a complex series of articulated fragments linked by style, scale and color. The painting’s imagery built on two large triangles and reduced to just two colors, cobalt blue and white all outlined in black. Pousette-Dart symbols stacked in horizontal and vertical rows: blue is ground, white is language, symbolic of light, consciousness and awareness . The painting maintains a mystical character images compounded that formulate a secret code and linked to the series of white paintings Pousette-Dart authored in the first half of the 1950s. Get up close to the picture and you discover images within images a kind of picture puzzle...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Acrylic
Interior Still Life Painting of Flowers 'Californian Poppies' by Neil Faulkner
Located in Shrewsbury, Shropshire
'Californian Poppies' is a vibrant and tranquil piece. Faulkner has captured the beautiful flowers perfectly and the light is almost dreamlike. An amazing still life that would make ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Red Vase, Oil Painting by Donald Roy Purdy
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Donald Roy Purdy, American (1924 - )
Title: Red Vase
Year: circa 1962
Medium: Oil on Masonite, signed l.r.
Size: 47 x 20 inches
Frame Size: 53 x 24 inches
Category
1960s Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
"Pink Vase with Flowers"
By James Lechay
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by:
James Lechay (1907 – 2001)
Born in the Bronx in 1907, James Lechay spent most of his childhood in Brooklyn before moving to Joilet, Illinois at age 13 to live with his uncle after his mother passed away. In 1928, he received his B.A. in psychology from the University of Illinois. The next year, he attended one week of graduate school before leaving to study under his brother, the painter Myron Lechay, in New York. At his brother’s studio, James began to associate with other artists of the time such as Milton Avery, Mark Rothko, Arshile Gorky, William Zorach, and Raphael and Moses Soyer. From Myron, James Lechay learned to train his eye to observe natural forms and developed a philosophy dependent upon the relationship built between the artist and the subject.
Lechay became engaged in the social and political issues of Depression-era New York and even joined the social realism movement for a brief time in the 1930s. He operated as the leader of the Artists Union while employed by the Works Progress Administration (WPA). With the WPA, Lechay traveled to Las Vegas, New Mexico, where he established a gallery and exhibited the works of Milton Avery, Max Weber, and other WPA artists. Despite his association with many artists and artistic communities in New York in the 1930s and 40s, Lechay opposed adopting a style due to its popularity and commercial success. His use, however, of large brushstrokes from Abstract Expressionism, the flattened plane of Modernism, and the simple compositions of early Abstraction created a combination of styles completely his own.
A painter of a vast range of subjects, including still lifes, portraits, and landscapes, Lechay was known to reduce these forms to their visual essentials. Lechay often did not date his paintings as he frequently reworked them, even after they were exhibited, calling his pieces, “finished at all stages and never finished”.
In 1945, Lechay was hired by the University of Iowa’s art department, where he worked alongside Mauricio Lasansky, Humbert Albrizio, Carl Fracassini, and Byron Burford...
Category
1990s Abstract Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Outsized Ambitions
Located in Washington Depot,, CT
One of America's most important realist painters, Eric Forstmann's work is proudly held in many public & private collections, such as the Rauschenberg Foundation, Aurelius Capital Ma...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
April Meeting
Located in Washington Depot,, CT
One of America's most important realist painters, Eric Forstmann's work is proudly held in many public & private collections, such as the Rauschenberg Foundation, Aurelius Capital Ma...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Pears & Grapes with Copper Pot, Mid-Century Fauvist Still-Life
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous mid-century Fauvist still-life by an unknown artist, circa 1960. This vibrant painting features a gorgeous palette of rich colors that reflect beautifully on the copper pot....
Category
1960s Fauvist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
Flowers Paint Oil on canvas Old master 17th Century Italy Still-life Art
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Master of the Grotesque Vase (active in Rome and Naples in the first quarter of the 17th century)
Still life of flowers in a classic vase
oil on canvas
66 x 51 cm, In frame cm. 82 x...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Still Life of Summer Flowers
By Leonie Mottart van Marcke
Located in Nutfield, Surrey
Painted around 1915, this example of the work of Leonie Mottart van Marcke depicts a pleasing arrangement of summer flowers. One of the most highly regarded painters of her day she w...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
In a new place, Contemporary Still-life with Axe Oil Painting by Igor Sventitski
Located in Sempach, LU
Original oil painting on canvas, still life painting made under natural light. This artwork is painted using high-quality fine linen canvas and sold unframed, stretched, and ready to...
Category
2010s Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Delight or Disgust" Jell-o motif, images of food, glassware
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Delight or Disgust" is an original artwork by Angela Rio and is made of acrylic on masonite, framed in artist-made oak wood. This piece measures 18”h x 24”w framed...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Acrylic, Oak
Veuve Clicquot C 12″ x 28″
By Randy Ford
Located in Boca Raton, FL
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About Randy Ford
Exhibitions of Ford’s work have taken place at Art Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany, Editions/Line Gallery, Marlton, NJ, Edward Hopper House Museum, Nyack, NY, Galería artelibre Zaragoza,Spain, Hughes Gallery, Boca Grande, FL, J. Willott Gallery, Palm Desert, CA, Jones & Terwilliger Galleries, Palm Desert, CA, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, NY, M.A Doran Gallery, Tulsa, OK, Plus One Gallery, London, England, Rosenfeld Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY, Stricoff Fine Art, New York, NY, Trudy Labell Fine Art, Naples FL...
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Watermelon and Blue Vase Still-Life
Located in Soquel, CA
Fun and vibrant still-life of a watermelon and blue vase by Sally Minton (American, 20th Century). Unsigned. Gallery tag accredits artist Sally Minton. Presented in a carved giltwood...
Category
Late 20th Century American Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vase with Zinnias, Botanical Peach, Light Orange, White Zinnia Flowers in Vase
Located in Kent, CT
A dark brown vase on a table holds a bouquet of peach, orange and white zinnias with dark green stems and leaves. The curved shape of the vase casts a ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Still Life of Flowers', Paris, Salon D'Automne, Danish Avant-Garde, 'The Four'
By Karl Larsen
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, "Karl Larsen" (Danish, 1897-1977) and painted circa 1955.
Beginning in 1917, Karl Larsen participated in numerous exhibitions in France and Denmark including the...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
18th century portrait of a Spaniel dog with fruit in a wooded landscape.
By Tobias Stranover
Located in Woodbury, CT
Outstanding early 18th-century portrait of a seated Spaniel dog in a landscape with an array of fruits.
Attributed to the work of Tobias Stranover.
...
Category
1730s Old Masters Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
De Wit Flowers Still life Paint Oil on canvas 18th Century Flemish Cupids Art
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Jacob De Wit (Amsterdam, 1695 - 1754) attributable/ workshop
Pair of Cupids with Garland of Flowers
Oil on canvas
91 x 103 cm. - Framed 104 x 115 cm.
Provenance: Christie's (London, Old master Painting 12.12.1996) lot 82
This magnificent composition depicts two cupids holding a garland of flowers, placed on a fine architecture with bas-reliefs and masks, presumably the top of a fountain.
One of the two cupids sympathetically holds a part of it with his hands, while his head turns towards the viewer; the second cupid, on the other hand, must have clumsily broken the thread holding its end, and is sitting sullenly with a torch and a tear streaking his chubby cheek.
The work, given its stylistic features and compositional taste, can be attributed to the Flemish artist Jacob de Wit (Amsterdam, 1695 - 1754), or to an artist from his workshop, with his typical triumphal and opulent style, which reveals clear influences from Rubens and Van Dijck, but also from Gerard de Lairesse...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Flowers Still-Life
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
BIVA Paul (1851 – 1900)
Flowers Still-Life
Oil on canvas signed low right
Old frame gilded with leaves
Dim canvas : 90 X 117 cm - Dim frame : 117 X 145 cm
BIVA Paul (1851 – 1900)
Fr...
Category
1880s Academic Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Still life with fruits. 19 century, oil on canvas, 72x62 cm
By Joseph Correggio
Located in Riga, LV
Still life with fruits. 19 century, oil on canvas, 72x62 cm
Still life with fruits, peaches, grapes, pumpkins on dark background, Flemish style
Joseph Correggio: born in Wolfrathsha...
Category
19th Century Flemish School Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Secret recipe, Gyula Bubarnik, Oil Paint/panel, Photorealist
Located in OOSTERBEEK, NL
Hungary, 1936 – 2015
Gyula Bubarnik was born in 1936 in a village near Budapest where he spent his childhood in the countryside. Surrounded by pure nat...
Category
Mid-20th Century Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Still Life with Lilies
By Hayley Lever
Located in Milford, NH
A beautiful still life with lilies painted by Australian American artist Hayley Lever (1876-1958). Lever was born in Adelaide, Australia and studied first at...
Category
Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Goblets IV, Contemporary Wall Sculpture Art, Bright Statement Art, Kitchen Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Goblets 4 is an original artwork by Joanne Tinker. Goblets is a unique wall sculpture by Joanne Tinker, depicting goblets made of recycled foil wrappers. This work is a one-off but c...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Foil
From the garden, Gyula Bubarnik, Oil Paint/panel, Photorealist
Located in OOSTERBEEK, NL
Hungary, 1936 – 2015
Gyula Bubarnik was born in 1936 in a village near Budapest where he spent his childhood in the countryside. Surrounded by pure nat...
Category
Mid-20th Century Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
MUSIC ROOM with HARP - original large painting
Located in Forest Hills, NY
"Music Room with Harp"
Oil on canvas
Large original, one-of-a-kind, painting 80x60cm / 39.3x27.5in
Shipped stretched directly from the artist's studio.
Part of my Interior series.
...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Blue vase, Herman Richer, Oil Paint/panel, impressionst
Located in OOSTERBEEK, NL
Belgium, 1866-1942
Herman Richir initially studied at the Art Academy of Sint-Joost-ten-Noode in Brussels, where he studied with Gustave Biot and Charles Hermans.
He then went on to...
Category
19th Century Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Fell from the tree, Gyula Bubarnik, Oil Paint/panel, Photorealist
Located in OOSTERBEEK, NL
Hungary, 1936 – 2015
Gyula Bubarnik was born in 1936 in a village near Budapest where he spent his childhood in the countryside. Surrounded by pure nat...
Category
Mid-20th Century Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Good life, Gyula Bubarnik, Oil Paint/panel, Photorealist
Located in OOSTERBEEK, NL
Hungary, 1936 – 2015
Gyula Bubarnik was born in 1936 in a village near Budapest where he spent his childhood in the countryside. Surrounded by pure nat...
Category
Mid-20th Century Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Fresh from the garden, Gyula Bubarnik, Oil Paint/panel, Photorealist
Located in OOSTERBEEK, NL
Hungary, 1936 – 2015
Gyula Bubarnik was born in 1936 in a village near Budapest where he spent his childhood in the countryside. Surrounded by pure nature, his interest in the beaut...
Category
Mid-20th Century Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Favourite flowers, M. Roosenboom, Watercolor/paper, early-impressionist
Located in OOSTERBEEK, NL
Dutch, 1843-1896
The painter Margaretha CJW Roosenboom (The Hague, 1843 – Voorburg 1896) grew up in a real artist's family. She was taught by her father Nicolaas Johannes Roosenboom...
Category
19th Century Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Strawberries, Gyula Bubarnik, Oil Paint/panel, Photorealist
Located in OOSTERBEEK, NL
Hungary, 1936 – 2015
Gyula Bubarnik was born in 1936 in a village near Budapest where he spent his childhood in the countryside. Surrounded by pure nat...
Category
Mid-20th Century Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Ant Battle Oil Sketch by Eugen Kask, Oil on Panel, Signed, 1978
Located in Stockholm, SE
The painting in question captures the dynamic energy of a moment seemingly frozen in time—an oil sketch by Eugen Kask featuring two ants engaged in an intense wrestling match. Kask’s approach to this piece is fluid and spontaneous, with broad, swift strokes that lend an air of immediacy to the scene. Much of the canvas remains untouched, its raw state highlighting the areas where Kask chose to concentrate his efforts, thus drawing the viewer's gaze directly to the central action of the ants. This decision to leave the background undefined gives the work a sense of incompleteness, a characteristic that is often celebrated in studies and sketches for its authenticity and connection to the artist's initial spark of inspiration.
Eugen Kask, born on January 18, 1918, in Kiev and passed away on May 11, 1998, in Vimmerby, was an Estonian-Swedish painter of diverse talents. A descendant of an architectural lineage, with his father Kristjan Kask and his own background in architecture and fine arts, Kask brought a structural eye to his compositions. His life, marked by the upheaval of wartime displacement, led him to Sweden where his contributions to art continued to flourish through exhibitions and group showcases. His work spans a variety of subjects from pastoral landscapes to intimate animal studies...
Category
1970s Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Bunch of Iris
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Joseph Alexis KREYDER (1839-1912)
Bunch of Iris
Oil on canvas signed low left
Old frame gilded with leaves
Dim canvas : 82 X 61 cm - Dim frame : 104 X 82 cm
Joseph Alexis KREYDER (1...
Category
1880s Post-Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Oil paintings pair by George Clare "Fruit" and "Flowers"
By George Clare
Located in Mere, GB
Pair of oil paintings on canvas by George Clare "Fruit" and "Flowers" George Clare (1830-1890) was the patriarch of the Clare family, with has son Oliver...
Category
19th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Geraniums, a Cigar & Nude Figure Still Life
Located in Soquel, CA
Unique still life of a table with geraniums and a lit cigar, with a framed painting of a nude in a forest setting in the background by an unknown artist (American, 20th Century). Pre...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Cardboard, Canvas, Oil
Bouquet in Yellow, White Flowers, Ochre Vase, Salmon Pink Botanical Still Life
Located in Kent, CT
A yellow vase holds an arrangement of white blossoms. The color of the bouquet complements the dark background and the coral colored table in this intimate still life painting. Signe...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Shop Still-Life Paintings on 1stDibs
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.