Midcentury Framed Still Life Oil Painting of a Still Life Table Scene

Vintage (20th century) still life oil painting of apples spilling from a bag on the forest floor, alongside a straw hat, painted on stretched canvas in a rectangular giltwood frame w...

Pair of 19th century gilt framed still life oil paintings of tablescapes of fruit.  

Contemporary still life oil painting of a bouquet of wildflowers and thistles inside a blue and white teapot against a bold graphic red and black...

Mid-Century oil still life painting depicting a blue wine bottle holding a flowering branch next several fruits on a mottled light blue background on...

Mid-century oil still life painting of a vase filled with assorted flowers next to a basket full of fruit on a table covered in fruit and grapes in a rectangular carved giltwood fram...

Mid-Century oil on canvas still life painting of a vase filled with assorted flowers next to a basket full of fruit on a table covered in fruit and grapes in a rectangular carved gil...

The midcentury still life painting is oil on masonite and is signed in the lower left corner. The focus of the composition is a yellow bowl of ba...

Grouped in a theme of Culinary Still Life Studies, this intriguing Montage of nine small oil paintings on board has been hand painted signed, matted and framed together to create a m...

Heavy palette floral still life done in primarily blues and greens. Painted by midcentury artist Etta Cien.

This quiet vintage midcentury still life oil painting is framed and signed by B. Christiansson, well known Swedish artist. In muted shad...

20th century still life of leather books, a brass candlestick and an inkwell with quill pen painted in an impressionistic style. Oil on canvas and signed in the lower right corner.

A stunning trompe l'oeil (fool the eye) mid 20th century Italian oil painting by artist Alfano Dardari. This work depicts a beautiful flower in a vase with a perfect little droplet of water resting ever so gently on a petal. The flower in the vase sits atop a shelf upon which a gorgeous butterfly has alighted. Also on the shelf is a gold watch. And do you see a thread through all of this? I do. Mind you, it's my opinion but I'll happily share it with you. Memento Mori. Instead of defining it for you, I'll offer this description from the Tate in London: "Memento mori is a Latin phrase meaning ‘remember you must die’. A basic memento mori painting would be a portrait with a skull but other symbols commonly found are hour glasses or clocks, extinguished or guttering candles, fruit, and flowers. Closely related to the memento mori picture is the vanitas still life. In addition to the symbols of mortality these may include other symbols such as musical instruments, wine and books to remind us explicitly of the vanity (in the sense of worthlessness) of worldly pleasures and goods. The term originally comes from the opening lines of the Book of Ecclesiastes in the Bible: ‘Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities, all is vanity...