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Juxtapose Red and Gray Diptych
Jose Margulis
Sculpture - 101.6 x 165.1 x 10.2 cm Sculpture - 40 x 65 x 4 inch
$18,000
Un Soir de Printemps
Georges R. Quinio
Painting - 46 x 55 x 4 cm Painting - 18.1 x 21.7 x 1.6 inch
$2,298
Ref. 736 - Variations
Vahid Mohammadi
Painting - 140 x 200 x 4 cm Painting - 55.1 x 78.7 x 1.6 inch
$8,042
Promenade irrationnelle
Philippe Ramette
Photography - 100 x 80 cm Photography - 39.4 x 31.5 inch
$12,178
Filamenti 2
Ivana Urso
Fine Art Drawings - 70 x 50 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.2 inch
$574
Poèmes insoumis
André Masson
Fine Art Drawings - 31.5 x 25 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12.4 x 9.8 x 0.1 inch
$1,723
Quartier Libre
Chloé Kelly Miller
Painting - 100 x 81 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 1.6 inch
$2,987
Prendre de la hauteur
Mathieu Pujol
Photography - 50 x 75 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 29.5 x 0 inch
$977
Suite de Pâques, Le Jardin des Oliviers
Alfred Manessier
Print - 56 x 76 cm Print - 22 x 29.9 inch
$689
Expansion 02 Bleu - Alain Carpentier
Alain Carpentier
Painting - 61 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 24 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$747
Rockin´Through the 1960s
Charles Fazzino
Painting - 70 x 100 x 5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 2 inch
$7,812
Out of life mom dad and child
Marcel Timmers
Sculpture - 32 x 29 x 4 cm Sculpture - 12.6 x 11.4 x 1.6 inch
$747
Songe d'une Nuit d'Été
Franck Bailleul
Painting - 167 x 122 x 4 cm Painting - 65.7 x 48 x 1.6 inch
$5,974
The wings of summer
Zianko Vasili
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,034
Triangle du Tacul
Jean Jacques Boimond
Painting - 34 x 24.5 x 2 cm Painting - 13.4 x 9.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,103
Dreaming No.1
Bea Garding Schubert
Painting - 149.9 x 119.9 x 4.6 cm Painting - 59 x 47.2 x 1.8 inch
$4,100
Labour of Love - Meaning of a Song
Shumaiya Khan
Painting - 120 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$5,381
3 red balls of wool
Alison Aplin Artist
Painting - 91 x 122 x 4 cm Painting - 35.8 x 48 x 1.6 inch
$3,964
In Honour Of God - The Creator 8
Soumitra Bhattacharya
Painting - 213 x 137 x 5 cm Painting - 83.9 x 53.9 x 2 inch
$4,423
Dancing together in Gold
Bennie Wielens
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1 inch
$2,217
Lithographie originale de Sobrino
Francisco Sobrino
Print - 80 x 80 x 0.3 cm Print - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.1 inch
$2,297
Beyond the Visible
Yaacov Agam
Fine Art Drawings - 25.4 x 27.9 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10 x 11 inch
$2,000
Sans titre
Maria Helena Vieira da Silva
Fine Art Drawings - 14.3 x 6 x 0.02 cm Fine Art Drawings - 5.6 x 2.4 x 0 inch
$12,868
Hommage à Camille Claudel
Duytter
Painting - 100 x 100 x 1.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.6 inch
$6,778
Street art or graffiti
Juan Spray
Painting - 130 x 97 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 38.2 x 1.2 inch
$1,379
Savage Journey the American Dream Edition
Ralph Steadman
Print - 81.3 x 101.6 x 2 cm Print - 32 x 40 x 0.8 inch
$6,500
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!