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Abstrait violet
Iolanta Gondouin (Iola)
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1 inch
$2,149
Blacks and whites
Pierre Barillot
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$2,601
J'aime pas les maths
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 89 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 35 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
$1,696 $1,527
La symphonie de la nature
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 60 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
$792 $712
Pandemic Spring series | april 13 2020
Alke Schmidt
Print - 29.7 x 21 x 0.1 cm Print - 11.7 x 8.3 x 0 inch
$34
Loetz Vase Medici Maron
Johann Loetz Witwe
Design - 21 x 11 x 11 cm Design - 8.3 x 4.3 x 4.3 inch
$4,297
Loetz vase pink Orbulin ca.
Johann Loetz Witwe
Design - 14.5 x 9 x 8 cm Design - 5.7 x 3.5 x 3.1 inch
$2,714
Loetz vase in the shape of a flower ca. 1910
Johann Loetz Witwe
Design - 40.5 x 22 x 22 cm Design - 15.9 x 8.7 x 8.7 inch
$5,428
Barques de pêche sur la lagune de Venise
Arthur Jean Baptiste Calame
Painting - 85.5 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 33.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$4,439
Lithographie originale de Spahn
Victor Spahn
Print - 80 x 60 x 0.3 cm Print - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.1 inch
$283
Frida the Astronaut
Stanislav Belovski
Painting - 130 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$4,071
Pelican Heart, Western Australia
mat beetson
Photography - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Photography - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$6,785
Running with wet dogs
Elena Sokolova
Painting - 39.9 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$397
Winter windmill in Maasluis
Elena Sokolova
Painting - 39.9 x 30 x 1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
$335
Sicilial landscape
Elena Sokolova
Painting - 30 x 39.9 x 1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
$340
Art market in Zaandam
Elena Sokolova
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$539
Landscape with a windmill
Elena Sokolova
Painting - 30 x 39.9 x 1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
$338
The view of Schiedam 2
Elena Sokolova
Painting - 30 x 39.9 x 1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
$333
The view of Schiedam 3
Elena Sokolova
Painting - 39.9 x 30 x 1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
$332
Dog on the mountain road
Elena Sokolova
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 1.3 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 0.5 inch
$398
Winter forest sunrise
Elena Sokolova
Painting - 40.6 x 50.8 x 1.3 cm Painting - 16 x 20 x 0.5 inch
$404
Spring in Holland 5
Elena Sokolova
Painting - 26.9 x 46 x 1 cm Painting - 10.6 x 18.1 x 0.4 inch
$367
Spring in the Ardennes
Elena Sokolova
Painting - 24.1 x 30 x 1 cm Painting - 9.5 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
$196
The view of Schiedam 4
Elena Sokolova
Painting - 59.9 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$535
Malvern Buzzard. Original watercolour
Christopher Hughes
Fine Art Drawings - 24.9 x 35.1 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.8 x 13.8 x 0.4 inch
$569
On the Malvern Hills
Christopher Hughes
Fine Art Drawings - 24.9 x 35.1 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.8 x 13.8 x 0.4 inch
$569
Malvern Hills in Autumn
Christopher Hughes
Fine Art Drawings - 24.9 x 35.1 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.8 x 13.8 x 0.4 inch
$569
Montepulciano. Tuscany. Italy
Christopher Hughes
Fine Art Drawings - 24.9 x 35.1 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.8 x 13.8 x 0.4 inch
$569
Tuscan Landscape. Orcia Valley. Tuscany
Christopher Hughes
Fine Art Drawings - 24.9 x 35.1 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.8 x 13.8 x 0.4 inch
$569
Ref 21-20 - Liberté de Peindre
Jeanne
Painting - 73 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 28.7 x 39.4 x 1 inch
$1,470
Léonard de Vinci
Louis Souchet
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1 inch
$39,581
Snowy Landscape with Stag
Brian King
Painting - 45 x 59.9 x 2 cm Painting - 17.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,165
Les Iris Sous la Tempête
Piet ENGELMAN
Painting - 140 x 160 x 3 cm Painting - 55.1 x 63 x 1.2 inch
$6,785
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!