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![Painting, I can't get started, Jean Duranel](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1287765_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Balade Aéropostale, Gabrielle Rul](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1201872_1_grid.jpg)
Balade Aéropostale
Gabrielle Rul
Fine Art Drawings - 29.7 x 21 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.7 x 8.3 inch
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![Sculpture, Miniature Soft Drum Set, Claes Oldenburg](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/699999_1_grid.jpg)
Miniature Soft Drum Set
Claes Oldenburg
Sculpture - 22.9 x 48.3 x 33 cm Sculpture - 9 x 19 x 13 inch
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![Fine Art Drawings, Orchestra Director, Flor David](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/690219_1_grid.jpg)
Orchestra Director
Flor David
Fine Art Drawings - 26.2 x 20 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10.3 x 7.9 x 0.1 inch
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![Print, Sérigraphie Bowie the Duke, Vincent Sabatier](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1789455_1_grid.jpg)
Sérigraphie Bowie the Duke
Vincent Sabatier
Print - 50 x 50 x 0.1 cm Print - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch
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![Painting, Octopus, Akiza](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/568665_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Steampunk, Akiza](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/567186_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Show Off, Akiza](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/549637_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Madonna, YouNs](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2177771_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Saxo, Ravi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1418757_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Fairy YoSHii, Akiza](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/568839_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Mute, Akiza](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/568638_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Pancake, Akiza](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/568632_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Upside Down, Akiza](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/567183_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Folding, Akiza](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/546616_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Sun records, Topolino](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1690794_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Moon sonata, Sergey Khachatryan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1906038_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, L'Année du Rat Punk, Marie Burel](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1464684_1_grid.jpg)
L'Année du Rat Punk
Marie Burel
Photography - 51 x 43 x 3 cm Photography - 20.1 x 16.9 x 1.2 inch
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![Painting, Lady in red playing the sax and taming a lion, Suthamma (Ta) Byrne](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2130271_1_grid.jpg)
Lady in red playing the sax and taming a lion
Suthamma (Ta) Byrne
Painting - 150 x 200 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 78.7 x 1.6 inch
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![Sculpture, Violino Pop, Ivan Todaro](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1932633_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Sounds of Japan, Gabrielle Rul](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1924590_1_grid.jpg)
Sounds of Japan
Gabrielle Rul
Fine Art Drawings - 29.7 x 21 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.7 x 8.3 x 0 inch
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![Photography, Duke Ellington et Louis Armstrong, Jacques de Potier](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1741557_1_grid.jpg)
Duke Ellington et Louis Armstrong
Jacques de Potier
Photography - 30 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0 inch
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![Painting, All you need is love, Art'Mony](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1271760_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Pop Music Guitar, David Kracov](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1522566_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Cellists Trio, Victor Spahn](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1265772_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, En écoutant Beethoven, Steliana Mocanu](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/793638_1_grid.jpg)
En écoutant Beethoven
Steliana Mocanu
Painting - 60 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
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![Painting, Violoniste au-dessus du Village Céleste, Pinkhas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/899934_1_grid.jpg)
Violoniste au-dessus du Village Céleste
Pinkhas
Painting - 100 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
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![Painting, Be my Geist, Akiza](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/546619_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Eagle, Akiza](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/546610_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Cellist, Karine Harutyunyan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2147756_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Le violoniste et son amour, Raya Sorkine](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1127391_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Violon l'oiseleur, Pinkhas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1119624_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Anarchy army, PyB](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/590820_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Saxo, Jean-Luc Tisserand](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/297220_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Leipzig, Nissan Engel](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1287030_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Music, Odette Muller](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2160378_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Jazz in the garden, Suthamma (Ta) Byrne](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2130256_1_grid.jpg)
Jazz in the garden
Suthamma (Ta) Byrne
Painting - 200 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 78.7 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
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![Painting, Love song, Ruzanna Melqumyan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2155307_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Compostion, Muraz Martirosyan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2152238_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Duet, Marieta Martirosyan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2148987_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Maloja (Série: les filles du vent 2017), Olivier Messas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1547694_1_grid.jpg)
Maloja (Série: les filles du vent 2017)
Olivier Messas
Sculpture - 46 x 18 x 14 cm Sculpture - 18.1 x 7.1 x 5.5 inch
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![Sculpture, Alicia [ version robe rouge ] (série : les ballerines 2021), Olivier Messas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1545948_1_grid.jpg)
Alicia [ version robe rouge ] (série : les ballerines 2021)
Olivier Messas
Sculpture - 49 x 27 x 20 cm Sculpture - 19.3 x 10.6 x 7.9 inch
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![Sculpture, Joséphine... (version robe verte) (série : les ballerines 2021), Olivier Messas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1545933_1_grid.jpg)
Joséphine... (version robe verte) (série : les ballerines 2021)
Olivier Messas
Sculpture - 48 x 26 x 22 cm Sculpture - 18.9 x 10.2 x 8.7 inch
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![Sculpture, Pina... [ version robe bleue ] (série : les ballerines 2021), Olivier Messas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1545900_1_grid.jpg)
Pina... [ version robe bleue ] (série : les ballerines 2021)
Olivier Messas
Sculpture - 48 x 26 x 22 cm Sculpture - 18.9 x 10.2 x 8.7 inch
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![Sculpture, Joséphine... [ version robe blanche ] (série : les ballerines 2020), Olivier Messas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1545894_1_grid.jpg)
Joséphine... [ version robe blanche ] (série : les ballerines 2020)
Olivier Messas
Sculpture - 48 x 26 x 22 cm Sculpture - 18.9 x 10.2 x 8.7 inch
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![Sculpture, Alicia [ version bleue ] (série : les ballerines 2021), Olivier Messas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1545876_1_grid.jpg)
Alicia [ version bleue ] (série : les ballerines 2021)
Olivier Messas
Sculpture - 49 x 27 x 20 cm Sculpture - 19.3 x 10.6 x 7.9 inch
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![Print, Mister K7 N&B, Depose](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/502751_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Quiet evening, Angel Gerdjikov](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1530498_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, The Drummer XXVII, Angu Walters](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1319607_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, L'Amoureux au violon, Raya Sorkine](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1128024_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, L'Orchestre, Raya Sorkine](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1127976_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Bowie, Mariana Bunimov](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1092240_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, The Drummer XIV, Angu Walters](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1027740_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, The Xylophone Player II, Angu Walters](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1023165_1_grid.jpg)
The Xylophone Player II
Angu Walters
Painting - 70 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
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![Painting, The Flutist I, Angu Walters](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1023135_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Piper, Pietro Morando](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1133454_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, African rythym, Bill Mensah](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1444086_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Concert au Louvre, Paul Ambille](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1259208_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Serenata a la Noche, Luis Enrique Toledo](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1225812_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Dancing girl, Atsuko Ishii](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1189734_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Jeune fille jouant au piano dans sa robe bleu à pois roses, Henry Meylan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/921912_1_grid.jpg)
Jeune fille jouant au piano dans sa robe bleu à pois roses
Henry Meylan
Painting - 41.5 x 33 x 2 cm Painting - 16.3 x 13 x 0.8 inch
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![Photography, Duke Ellington, Harry Hammond](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/898899_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Guitarist, Hayk Miqayelyan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1867710_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Dizzy Gillespie, Harry Hammond](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/898914_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Graff of sound, Tango](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2107698_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Malab'Art goût Gainsbarre, Rakel Wajnberg](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/950616_1_grid.jpg)
Malab'Art goût Gainsbarre
Rakel Wajnberg
Sculpture - 33 x 18 x 4 cm Sculpture - 13 x 7.1 x 1.6 inch
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![Painting, Tuned violin art, Alberto Blanchart](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1562640_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Trompettiste, Flow](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1316580_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Jazz Band, Odin Pigelet](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1303338_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Beatles, Marco Lodola](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1009677_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Les mots bleus, Yves Cass](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1523568_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, The violin, Anahit Mirijanyan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2086902_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Serenade, Anahit Mirijanyan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2084466_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Man touched by the desire to touch, Susano Correia](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1963620_1_grid.jpg)
Man touched by the desire to touch
Susano Correia
Painting - 46 x 41 x 1 cm Painting - 18.1 x 16.1 x 0.4 inch
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![Sculpture, Lots of Tea in the Sea, James Chedburn](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1443630_1_grid.jpg)
Lots of Tea in the Sea
James Chedburn
Sculpture - 35 x 35 x 15 cm Sculpture - 13.8 x 13.8 x 5.9 inch
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![Painting, Hendrix, Docteur Bergman](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/658254_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Un univers et l'harmonie, Youngmi Kim](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/643959_1_grid.jpg)
Un univers et l'harmonie
Youngmi Kim
Painting - 46 x 55 x 3.5 cm Painting - 18.1 x 21.7 x 1.4 inch
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![Painting, Street Jazz, Pierre Barillot](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2108058_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Lyre, Albena Vatcheva](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1057641_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Ballerina No. 21, Series VIII, Mario Henrique](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/961836_1_grid.jpg)
Ballerina No. 21, Series VIII
Mario Henrique
Painting - 150 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
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![Painting, Ballerina No. 20, Series VIII, Mario Henrique](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/961827_1_grid.jpg)
Ballerina No. 20, Series VIII
Mario Henrique
Painting - 150 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
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![Print, David Bowie, Laurent Durrey](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/951735_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Ballerina No. 14, Series VIII, Mario Henrique](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/897258_1_grid.jpg)
Ballerina No. 14, Series VIII
Mario Henrique
Painting - 150 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
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![Painting, Solo de violon au petit matin, Serge Pahnke](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1262574_1_grid.jpg)
Solo de violon au petit matin
Serge Pahnke
Painting - 82 x 132.5 x 3 cm Painting - 32.3 x 52.2 x 1.2 inch
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![Sculpture, Violon le marchand de ballon, Pinkhas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1102920_1_grid.jpg)
Violon le marchand de ballon
Pinkhas
Sculpture - 42 x 15 x 4 cm Sculpture - 16.5 x 5.9 x 1.6 inch
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![Painting, Baby let me kiss you, Paul Picka](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/783441_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Mélodie orange, Albena Vatcheva](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1286895_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Harpe en fleurs, Albena Vatcheva](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/701496_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Quand le jour laisse place à la nuit, Albena Vatcheva](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1892235_1_grid.jpg)
Quand le jour laisse place à la nuit
Albena Vatcheva
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
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![Fine Art Drawings, Pub No.4, Xiao Duzi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/938250_1_grid.jpg)
Pub No.4
Xiao Duzi
Fine Art Drawings - 53 x 38.5 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 20.9 x 15.2 x 0.1 inch
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![Painting, Robert Jonhson, Caroline St-Pierre](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/987981_1_grid.jpg)
Robert Jonhson
Caroline St-Pierre
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 1.5 inch
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![Painting, Freddie Mercury, Dane Shue](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1317324_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, The Kora Player V, Angu Walters](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1023807_1_grid.jpg)
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!