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Rosenberg & Co. is pleased to present Still Life: Variations on a Theme, a group exhibition examining how artists through the years have addressed the classic fine art subject of the still life. The show features works spanning nineteenth-century Impressionism to twentieth-century Modernism to the contemporary, and comprises a range of media such as painting, photography, and sculpture.

According to Pliny the Elder, the painter Zeuxis of 5th century B.C.E. Greece unveiled a sumptuous still life painting of grapes so convincingly hyper-realistic that birds flew at the canvas to peck at the …