Food Paintings For Sale

Browse our selection of fine art food paintings for sale. Whether you’re just beginning your collection or looking to add to an existing one, you can find a large collection of food and beverage themed artworks in our online gallery.

Our carefully curated selection includes a variety of styles. Figurative food paintings carefully recreate the texture of everything from vibrant fruit and sumptuous desserts.

On the other hand, our illustrative food paintings showcase bright colours and graphic styles that reference food and pop culture. Discover these contemporary food paintings online today.

The History of Food Art

Food brings us together. It is often the focal point around which we congregate and socialise. It has the unique ability to capture the zeitgeist, demonstrating consumer and cultural trends. This makes food an object of cultural fascination, imbuing artworks with a sense of time and mood.

Food is a natural point of interest for artists trying to capture everyday life and the world around them. Early still life paintings included food on ancient Egyptian tombs and the murals of ancient Rome as symbols of abundance.

In the Northern Renaissance, food became a sign of wealth, status and even intellect or piety – food often symbolised the fleeting nature of life as a memento mori. Jacopo de' Barbari’s Still Life with Partridge, Iron Gloves, and Crossbow Bolt (1504) is thought to be one of the earliest still life paintings in which food plays a central role.

In the 20th century, still life painting evolved dramatically with movements like Cubism, Surrealism, and Pop Art. Traditional still life themes were reinterpreted, with food emerging as a way of exploring new facets of modernity like leisure time, consumer culture and mass packaging.

As food production was industrialised, artists created food paintings that explored its production and advertisement. Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup Cans (1962), is perhaps the most famous example. The series of canvases elevated a mundane, mass-produced product to the status of fine art, challenging traditional notions of art and consumer culture.

Likewise, Claes Oldenburg’s The Store (1961) was a milestone Pop Art food work. The artist opened a shopfront on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and sold painted plaster sculptures of blueberry pie, ice cream and a rack of ribs. Contemporary artist Sarah Lucas has incorporated food in artworks such as Two Fried Eggs and a Kebab (1992), as humorous critiques of consumption, desire, and objectification.

Food Paintings for Sale on Rise Art

For vibrant paintings of food, look no further than Benjamin Receveur. The artist uses thick, textural oil paint to create luminous compositions. Citrons (2023), puts a contemporary twist on the modern still life – injecting a selection of lemons and limes with a neon shine which captures the play of light on the surface of the fruit.

For a different kind of food artwork, the painter Kate McCrickard creates bold, eclectic portraits of family meals. Cozy compositions like Table Manners, put the viewer at the centre of the action as family members pick at food, lick their fingers and chat animatedly over the dinner table. McCrickard captures the intimacy and communal history of food in her playful artworks.

You can explore more contemporary food paintings online at Rise Art.

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    Ath, Wallonia by Michael Coppelov
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    Ath, Wallonia by Michael Coppelov
    Ath, Wallonia
    Paintings - 35x20 cmRent for $38 /mo
    Garapa by Aline Gaiad
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    Garapa by Aline Gaiad
    Garapa
    Paintings - 150x130 cmRent for $390 /mo
    38020/31 by Sasha Makarska
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    38020/31 by Sasha Makarska
    38020/31
    Paintings - 30x30 cm
    After The Drive, Before The Meal by Kally Laurence
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    After The Drive, Before The Meal by Kally Laurence
    After The Drive, Before The Meal
    Paintings - 91x91 cmRent for $130 /mo
    Citrons by Benjamin Receveur
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    Citrons by Benjamin Receveur
    Citrons
    Paintings - 146x114 cm
    Birds Chatting, PLates Overflowing by Kally Laurence
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    Birds Chatting, PLates Overflowing by Kally Laurence
    Birds Chatting, PLates Overflowing
    Paintings - 91x91 cmRent for $130 /mo
    There Was A Lot Of Talking Going On by Kally Laurence
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    There Was A Lot Of Talking Going On by Kally Laurence
    There Was A Lot Of Talking Going On
    Paintings - 189x115 cmRent for $170 /mo
    Cake cairns by Sophie Iremonger
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    Cake cairns by Sophie Iremonger
    Cake cairns
    Paintings - 149x118 cm
    Plant Based by Clare Haxby
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    Plant Based by Clare Haxby
    Plant Based
    Paintings - 110x90 cmRent for $275 /mo
    mussels on plate by Elina Evstig
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    mussels on plate by Elina Evstig
    mussels on plate
    Paintings - 40x40 cm
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    Fígaro by Aline Gaiad
    Fígaro
    Paintings - 150x125 cmRent for $420 /mo
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    Joe la Fraise 1 by Ewen Gur
    Joe la Fraise 1
    Paintings - 80x60 cm
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    After Dinner We Danced by Kally Laurence
    After Dinner We Danced
    Paintings - 175x155 cmRent for $205 /mo
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    a bowl of very ripe fruit by Leila Lallali
    a bowl of very ripe fruit
    Paintings - 50x40 cm
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    Exploration by Liu Xia
    Exploration
    Paintings - 50x50 cm
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    Blancmange by Sophie Iremonger
    Blancmange
    Paintings - 91x75 cm
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    "Apéro" by Barbara Piatti
    "Apéro"
    Paintings - 50x50 cm
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    Frozen fruits  by Sophie Iremonger
    Frozen fruits
    Paintings - 92x76 cm
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    "Addicted #1" by Maxim Fomenko
    "Addicted #1"
    Paintings - 105x80 cm
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    Happy by Rudolf Kosow
    Happy
    Paintings - 150x135 cm
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    Skull custard by Sophie Iremonger
    Skull custard
    Paintings - 118x72 cm
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    feast of the gods (pink/black) by Jack Kettlewell
    feast of the gods (pink/black)
    Paintings - 41x39 cmRent for $75 /mo
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    Mooncake for Big Mouths by Shimeng Jiang
    Mooncake for Big Mouths
    Paintings - 39x27 cm
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    Just Pineapple by Apollinaria Manko
    Just Pineapple
    Paintings - 100x80 cm
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    Kustom Kitchen by Kirsten Lilford
    Kustom Kitchen
    Paintings - 110x140 cm
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    Sweet Dragon  by Aline Gaiad
    Sweet Dragon
    Paintings - 150x115 cmRent for $400 /mo
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    "Addicted #2" by Maxim Fomenko
    "Addicted #2"
    Paintings - 105x80 cm
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    What's for Dessert? by Van Lanigh
    What's for Dessert?
    Paintings - 80x70 cm
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    Dinner by Zhang Xinyi
    Dinner
    Paintings - 120x150 cm
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