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Palimpsest (Bacn)
Signe Guttormsen
Painting - 21 x 30 x 1 cm Painting - 8.3 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
$1,124
On Wind and Stone
Christopher Rainham
Painting - 50 x 70 x 6 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 2.4 inch
$1,177
Life Is Beautiful Dipped Bubblegum
Mr Brainwash
Sculpture - 26.7 x 19.1 x 4 cm Sculpture - 10.5 x 7.5 x 1.6 inch
$3,034 $2,731
Soft abstraction IX
Tamara Bakhshinyan
Painting - 70 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$673 $607
New York city Rain #9
Marco Barberio
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,888
Plastic Head: Rare Vintage Batman Doll - 1988
Ryan O'Donoghue
Photography - 100 x 75 x 0.5 cm Photography - 39.4 x 29.5 x 0.2 inch
$1,242
Pour toute la vie
Cendrine Pannier
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$618
Coste - La grue jaune - Nantes- île Beaulieu - 2012 - série danse et architecture
Lucas Perrigot
Photography - 59.4 x 84.1 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.4 x 33.1 x 0 inch
$649
Les Ballerines
Antoine Leclercq
Sculpture - 37 x 20 x 16 cm Sculpture - 14.6 x 7.9 x 6.3 inch
$5,057
Ile St Louis, Paris
Philippe Olivier
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$955
Lenteur nécessaire
Christian Michaud
Sculpture - 50.8 x 61 x 3.8 cm Sculpture - 20 x 24 x 1.5 inch
$910
Concert baroque, Verdi
Ernest Pignon-Ernest
Fine Art Drawings - 13 x 20 cm Fine Art Drawings - 5.1 x 7.9 inch
$13,484
Be Careful What You Wish For
Zena Blackwell
Painting - 45 x 45 x 2 cm Painting - 17.7 x 17.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,439
The Warriors of tradition
Franck Kemkeng Noah
Painting - 110 x 130 x 5 cm Painting - 43.3 x 51.2 x 2 inch
$5,618
Skull in the Meditation with Neon Design
Dervis Akdemir
Sculpture - 32 x 32 x 25 cm Sculpture - 12.6 x 12.6 x 9.8 inch
$785
Late Return (Retour Tardif)
Janusz Kik
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$331 $299
L'Aube Amoureux
Inna Modja
Photography - 50 x 70 x 0.3 cm Photography - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.1 inch
$2,809
Tale Of Pistils & Stamens
František Kupka
Fine Art Drawings - 29.7 x 21 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.7 x 8.3 x 0 inch
$16,855
Mina Mina Jukurrpa - Ngalyipi
Geraldine Granites Napangardi
Painting - 122 x 30 x 3 cm Painting - 48 x 11.8 x 1.2 inch
$1,067
"Day & Night" Spinning Polymorph
Yaacov Agam
Sculpture - 32 x 28.5 x 12 cm Sculpture - 12.6 x 11.2 x 4.7 inch
$40,452
To overshoot A362
Vito Sardano
Painting - 50 x 50 x 15 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 5.9 inch
$2,247 $2,135
Cardiology Domine
Taline Temizian
Painting - 100 x 120 x 1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 0.4 inch
$30,283
Comme l'offrande du soir_h
Emilie Chauvel
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 65 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 25.6 inch
$562
Composition abstraite
Marcel Mouly
Painting - 35 x 33.3 x 0.1 cm Painting - 13.8 x 13.1 x 0 inch
$13,484
Just The 2 Of Us X
Paul Akiiki
Painting - 100 x 100 x 0.8 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.3 inch
$4,000
Sierra 7 colores
Florentina Fischer
Painting - 120 x 100 x 1 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
$1,966
Red wildflowers - Tuscany landscape painting
Raimondo Pacini
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$264
Danseuse au tutu vert
Yannick Le Bloas
Sculpture - 28.5 x 9 x 9 cm Sculpture - 11.2 x 3.5 x 3.5 inch
$506
Stop This Man ( Iron man)
Kokian
Painting - 130 x 130 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 51.2 x 1.2 inch
$6,293
Anonymous lover II
Jean-Philippe Berger
Sculpture - 33 x 17 x 15 cm Sculpture - 13 x 6.7 x 5.9 inch
$315
Battersea Power Station
Marco Araldi
Painting - 72 x 91 x 5 cm Painting - 28.3 x 35.8 x 2 inch
$3,270
Monotype Cloudy sky
Aurélie Trabaud
Painting - 50 x 50 x 0.6 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.2 inch
$1,348
Lady with a hand fan
Anatoly Metlan
Painting - 91 x 61 x 2.5 cm Painting - 35.8 x 24 x 1 inch
$6,800
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!