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Portrait of Ruth
Sesse Elangwe Ngeseli
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 3 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1.2 inch
$5,994
Le Patriarche N°1
Michel Bassompierre
Sculpture - 12 x 13 x 11 cm Sculpture - 4.7 x 5.1 x 4.3 inch
$4,071
Once There Was A Way
Brian Bartlett
Painting - 90 x 90 x 4 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 1.6 inch
$1,588
It_helped_me_diamond
Axel Jenny
Painting - 125 x 100 x 0.1 cm Painting - 49.2 x 39.4 x 0 inch
$2,262
Breast Print 25
Dzovig Arnelian
Painting - 15.2 x 15.2 x 0.4 cm Painting - 6 x 6 x 0.2 inch
$250 $225
Portrait and Sunflower
Olaosun Oluwapelumi
Painting - 61 x 50.8 x 2.5 cm Painting - 24 x 20 x 1 inch
$1,250
Le Moulin de la galette
Joseph Piermatteo
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$3,619
Star of David Crystal Mezuzah
Yaacov Agam
Design - 12.5 x 3 x 3 cm Design - 4.9 x 1.2 x 1.2 inch
$900
Two Persons in Sunglasses
Noah Becker
Painting - 122 x 91 x 4 cm Painting - 48 x 35.8 x 1.6 inch
$4,993
Baiser suspendu
Thalia Dalecky
Sculpture - 41 x 39 x 39 cm Sculpture - 16.1 x 15.4 x 15.4 inch
$1,923
Sans titre
Julien Drogoul
Photography - 60 x 90 x 0.3 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.1 inch
$1,018
Gontran (hommage à Modrian)
Flo Hombecq
Sculpture - 36 x 15 x 15 cm Sculpture - 14.2 x 5.9 x 5.9 inch
$1,074
Clouds are floating
Ludmila Budanov
Painting - 99.1 x 78.7 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39 x 31 x 1 inch
$1,400
Aus dem Gruppenbuch der Christiane P. - Wir Thälmannpioniere
Matthias Leupold
Photography - 50 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$1,018
Power Ball
Jessica Renault jrbrush
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.37 x 39.37 x 1 inch
$2,262
I Don’t Mean A Thing
Laëtitia Giraud
Painting - 46 x 55 x 1 cm Painting - 18.1 x 21.7 x 0.4 inch
$1,527
Licht-Linien Lumineszenz I
Selçuk Dizlek
Sculpture - 20 x 20 x 6 cm Sculpture - 7.9 x 7.9 x 2.4 inch
$1,414
Boy in Wonderland
Samson Olatubosun
Painting - 74.9 x 59.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 29.5 x 23.6 x 1 inch
$1,850
Still Life Flowers
Juan Jose Abella
Painting - 46 x 38 x 1 cm Painting - 18.1 x 15 x 0.4 inch
$1,244
Africa confinement
Pierre Morquin
Painting - 162 x 130 x 3 cm Painting - 63.8 x 51.2 x 1.2 inch
$3,958
Narodni trida, Prague
Ivan Klymenko
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,431
Bolatito (The Sanctification That Brings Joy)
Ayanwale Joseph Oluwafemi
Painting - 63.5 x 38.1 x 2.5 cm Painting - 25 x 15 x 1 inch
$1,450
Le monde en équilibre
Isabelle Duffaud
Painting - 80 x 80 x 1.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.6 inch
$1,527
MC Caviar 19cm glossy pink – Turquoise
XTC
Sculpture - 19 x 15 x 10 cm Sculpture - 7.5 x 5.9 x 3.9 inch
$1,470
J'ai allumé une bougie 6
Frédéric Bruly Bouabré
Fine Art Drawings - 18 x 12 x 0.01 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.1 x 4.7 x 0 inch
$396
Duality
Alexandre de Poplavsky
Painting - 160 x 110 x 3.5 cm Painting - 63 x 43.3 x 1.4 inch
$31,665
Camden town III
Yoann Bonneville (YBA)
Painting - 116 x 89 x 2.5 cm Painting - 45.7 x 35 x 1 inch
$3,121
Alter Ego Pyssla 703
Alessandro Piano
Sculpture - 25 x 16 x 8 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 6.3 x 3.1 inch
$1,018
Readers series - Capital
Nikolaus von Wolff
Print - 50 x 50 x 0.1 cm Print - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$905
Blooming Grace
Kayimahe Ishmael Zed
Painting - 89.9 x 70.1 x 2.5 cm Painting - 35.4 x 27.6 x 1 inch
$1,750
Distillation of the Black Box
Vladimir Kolosov
Painting - 45.7 x 61 x 0.3 cm Painting - 18 x 24 x 0.125 inch
$1,260
Descendent - Lucid Dreamer
James Jean
Sculpture - 32 x 15 x 15 cm Sculpture - 12.6 x 5.9 x 5.9 inch
$2,036
Contemporary artworks for sale
Over 200,000 pieces. That's the number of contemporary artworks and design objects currently available on Artsper. Every day, new artists and galleries from all over the world join us and trust us to showcase their work. On Artsper, all mediums have a place of choice: painting, drawing, photography, editions and sculpture.
The generic term "contemporary art" refers to all works produced in the recent period, that is to say between the end of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st centuries. However, there is not only one type of contemporary art. It can cover as many forms as there are artists, if not more. Contemporary art, while taking into account the individualities and the cultural specificities, takes life at the world level, in a globalized society and constantly in movement. Thus, the materials used, the processes of creation and the subjects treated by the contemporary art works often reflect these interconnections. But one constant remains, artists perpetually question the established artistic order.
Even if they are often confused, there are many differences between modern and contemporary art, notably the idea that contemporary art works are more conceptual and privilege the creative idea to the support used.
Nevertheless, the distinction between these two movements can also be purely temporal. Any work realized after 1945 can be called "contemporary". At the beginning of the 20th century, the movements followed one another according to the revolutionary reflections of the great masters of Surrealism (Salvador Dalí, René Magritte), Cubism (Pablo Picasso, Fernand Léger) and Dadaism (Marcel Duchamp). From the 1950s and 1960s, artists pushed the reflection on abstraction even further. This is the birth of minimalist art as well as conceptual art. In opposition to the abstract expressionists such as Joan Mitchell, Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock, the leaders of these movements are notably Frank Stella and Sol Lewitt.
Pop art is one of the first artistic movements to emerge from contemporary art. It was the work of a whole generation caught up in the whirlwind of consumer society. Pop art uses new technologies and very bright colors to portray (sometimes ironically) this globalized world in transition. The precursors of this pictorial technique are Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol, whose modern paintings represent icons of the time such as Marilyn Monroe or Elizabeth Taylor.
Born in the 1960s in Philadelphia, street art became popular in the 1980s. Illegal and controversial at first, it now occupies a major place in modern art museums, galleries and private collections. Paintings, stencil drawings, collages, sculpture, tags, graffiti... On Artsper, discover original contemporary artworks as well as prints by the greatest street artists: Shepard Fairey (Obey), JonOne, Aiko, Miss.Tic, Jef Aérosol and many others. But our catalog also highlights young stars and talents of the emerging scene, such as Death NYC or Jérôme Mesnager.
Today, contemporary art exists in many forms, more or less inspired by the movements that have shaped modern history. The beginning of the 21st century is marked by a multidisciplinary creation, an interest for creation coming from the four corners of the world, and the emergence of markets on different continents. Contemporary artworks also denote a meteoric growth in digital art, as evidenced by the recent boom in NFTs and AI (artificial intelligence)-generated art. As with all art forms, we see a globalized interest in innovative and disruptive contemporary artworks as much as in work that aims to revive the more traditional forms of fine art.
Whether you're a budding collector or a seasoned buyer, a home decorator or an art history buff, now is the time to express your personality by exploring the collections of our 1,800 partner galleries, which are constantly being updated with new works of contemporary art. Your perfect piece is waiting for you, now it's up to you to find it!