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Empêcher que le monde ne se défasse
Jean-Roch Klethi
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$973
Embrasser la vie avec passion
Emily Starck
Painting - 110 x 95 x 3 cm Painting - 43.3 x 37.4 x 1.2 inch
$3,055
White and purple lilacs bouquet
Karine Harutyunyan
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$600
Jean-Michel Basquiat - Horn Players
The Skateroom
Sculpture - 80 x 20 x 1 cm Sculpture - 31.5 x 7.9 x 0.4 inch
$980
Nothingness (Le Néant)
Nathanaëlle Dianga
Painting - 40 x 30 x 1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
$905
Pour toute la vie
Cendrine Pannier
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$622
Pêcheur
Frederick Reginald Donat
Painting - 47.5 x 26 x 0.5 cm Painting - 18.7 x 10.2 x 0.2 inch
$1,631
Abstraction typographique 23
L'Outsider
Painting - 92 x 65 x 3 cm Painting - 36.2 x 25.6 x 1.2 inch
$3,395
Sol enneigé 1
Camille Brès
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 40 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
$2,716
Nostalgic Horse Toys
Abgar Khachatryan
Painting - 70 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$750
West London Tranquility
Claire-Julia Hill
Painting - 60 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,613
Mírame bien: ¿Es que no ves que soy lo mismo que tú? (Coded Paintings Series)
Imanol Marrodán
Painting - 150 x 242.3 x 1 cm Painting - 59.1 x 95.4 x 0.4 inch
$22,633
Subway Series NYC Limited Edition n°15
Orus
Sculpture - 40 x 35 x 30 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 13.8 x 11.8 inch
$2,263
Young woman listening to the radio in the hotel room
Sasha Katz
Print - 52 x 42 x 0.3 cm Print - 20.5 x 16.5 x 0.1 inch
$1,697
Homeless in Paris
Blek Le Rat
Painting - 161.29 x 129.54 x 2.54 cm Painting - 63.5 x 51 x 1 inch
$45,000
Mr. A & Miss A (Uncut Love Edition)
André Saraiva
Print - 99.06 x 68.58 x 0.2 cm Print - 39 x 27 x 0.1 inch
$1,924
Silence of being
Mayra AleJandra Lifischtz
Painting - 50 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$1,450
New York Street #2
Marco Barberio
Painting - 69 x 69 x 3 cm Painting - 27.2 x 27.2 x 1.2 inch
$2,263
La nuit des cerisiers en fleur (Sakura no Yoru)
Laetitia Goninet
Design - 150 x 50 x 2 cm Design - 59.1 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,584
Dans le silence des pages
Anne Horlaville
Painting - 65 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
$1,086
Once Given a White Rose 1
Agbalaya Abdulahi Opeyemi
Painting - 33 x 25.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 13 x 10 x 1 inch
$650
Personnages sous le porche de l'église
Armand Marie Guérin
Painting - 72.5 x 59.5 x 0.5 cm Painting - 28.5 x 23.4 x 0.2 inch
$1,540
Topographie végétale (2)
Sophie Zénon
Sculpture - 50 x 15 x 15 cm Sculpture - 19.7 x 5.9 x 5.9 inch
$2,490
De guerre lasse
Sylvie Julkowski-Egard
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,697
The power of two II
Andreea Zahiu
Sculpture - 45 x 35 x 35 cm Sculpture - 17.7 x 13.8 x 13.8 inch
$5,092
La forme de la mer
Benoit Barbagli
Painting - 117 x 219 x 3 cm Painting - 46.1 x 86.2 x 1.2 inch
$6,224
108, de la série Baltique
Irène Jonas
Photography - 18 x 27 x 0.1 cm Photography - 7.1 x 10.6 x 0 inch
$1,018
Aeneas, Anchises and Ascanius II
Reinar Foreman
Painting - 150 x 120 x 1 cm Painting - 59.1 x 47.2 x 0.4 inch
$7,921
Trio de bateaux
Pedro Viana Parente
Painting - 73 x 54 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 21.3 x 0.8 inch
$1,075
Les ombres blanches
Anne Bachelier
Painting - 65 x 81 x 3 cm Painting - 25.6 x 31.9 x 1.2 inch
$7,695
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!