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Piazza del Popolo
Alessandro Battaglia
Painting - 40 x 60 x 0.2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.1 inch
£1,242
The Rescue
Gino Spalmach
Fine Art Drawings - 72 x 54 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 28.3 x 21.3 x 0.1 inch
£1,065
Verona, Piazza Erbe, Italy
Michele Cascarano
Painting - 25 x 29.5 x 8 cm Painting - 9.8 x 11.6 x 3.1 inch
£594
Love is a river
Benoit Ruff
Photography - 42 x 29.7 x 0.2 cm Photography - 16.5 x 11.7 x 0.1 inch
£310
The Ancient Theater
Maria Elisabeth Wrede
Painting - 50.5 x 65.5 x 0.4 cm Painting - 19.9 x 25.8 x 0.2 inch
£665
La Belle et la Bête, (I love You).
Paxal
Painting - 67 x 72 x 2 cm Painting - 26.4 x 28.3 x 0.8 inch
£1,233
London Harbor
Robert Louis Antral
Fine Art Drawings - 13 x 20 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 5.1 x 7.9 x 0.1 inch
£1,065
Skiers XII (December)
Ernesto Dick
Painting - 23 x 44 x 0.2 cm Painting - 9.1 x 17.3 x 0.1 inch
£1,597
Avec qui mettre son âme à table ? Épreuve d'artiste
Miss.Tic
Design - 30 x 100 x 100 cm Design - 11.8 x 39.4 x 39.4 inch
£7,097
At the water's edge / A fleur d'eau
Sylvie Gaudissart
Sculpture - 10.5 x 30 x 10 cm Sculpture - 4.1 x 11.8 x 3.9 inch
£1,730
Amstel Amsterdam
Anna Pavlova
Painting - 39.4 x 100.3 x 2.5 cm Painting - 15.5 x 39.5 x 1 inch
£1,073
Dunham Massey National Trust Outbuildings painting
Gav Banns
Painting - 39.9 x 30 x 0.3 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
£736
Bivalve rosa
Iginio Iurilli
Sculpture - 16.5 x 47 x 55 cm Sculpture - 6.5 x 18.5 x 21.7 inch
£754 £641
Winter Khiva landscape
Dilshod Khudayorov
Painting - 27 x 40.5 x 0.5 cm Painting - 10.6 x 15.9 x 0.2 inch
£715
Venice
Giovanni Brancaccio
Fine Art Drawings - 33 x 40 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 13 x 15.7 x 0 inch
£887
The Charles Bridge in Pragu
Bohuslav Slansky
Painting - 56 x 75 x 0.1 cm Painting - 22 x 29.5 x 0 inch
£1,419
Rome from the Pincio
Mario Evangelisti
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
£1,065
Cambodge Rizière - Série Paysage d'Asie
Marie-Thérèse Chanel
Painting - 61 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 24 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
£1,038
Collection "Ville Autrement" / Paris Autrement / Windstorm
Franck Doat
Photography - 25 x 30 x 0.1 cm Photography - 9.8 x 11.8 x 0 inch
£488
Dreaming of the Dawn
Giuseppe Marani
Photography - 80 x 150 x 0.2 cm Photography - 31.5 x 59.1 x 0.1 inch
£1,597
Graffiti Heart - Paper Cut
David Gerstein
Painting - 70 x 90 x 4 cm Painting - 27.6 x 35.4 x 1.6 inch
£4,169
Urban Landscape Series, Street After Rain
Zhao De-Wei
Painting - 50 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
£3,194
Fleeing to Egypt
Eugenio Larminiani
Painting - 54 x 72.5 x 0.1 cm Painting - 21.3 x 28.5 x 0 inch
£1,331
Fashion
Karl Lagerfeld
Fine Art Drawings - 46 x 60 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 18.1 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
£7,984
Balance around 3 squares
Stelly Grancharov
Painting - 33 x 83 x 2 cm Painting - 13 x 32.7 x 0.8 inch
£976
Deep Horizon
Pierre Auville
Fine Art Drawings - 89 x 100 x 8 cm Fine Art Drawings - 35 x 39.4 x 3.1 inch
£2,000
Petit labyrinthe
Paul Richard Mason
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 29.7 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 11.7 x 0 inch
£1,686
La Tour Eiffel dans les nuages
Elodie Grégoire
Photography - 70 x 95 x 1 cm Photography - 27.6 x 37.4 x 0.4 inch
£3,105
Tranquility
Nandita Bhattacharya
Painting - 120 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 47.2 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
£2,839
La niña de la ventana
Maritza Bernal
Painting - 61 x 76 x 2 cm Painting - 24 x 29.9 x 0.8 inch
£1,597
Promenade dans la forêt
Wilma Ramos
Painting - 30 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
£577
Kano 1975
John Craven né Conte
Photography - 30 x 40 x 0.5 cm Photography - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.2 inch
£843
Beth Harmon II (The Queen’s Gambit)
Josie McCoy
Painting - 15 x 20 x 3 cm Painting - 5.9 x 7.9 x 1.2 inch
£878
Morgenster Tall Ship - Marine Art
Koorosh Nejad
Painting - 80 x 145 x 4.1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 57.1 x 1.6 inch
£1,423
Post cards from the beach #25
Sylvia Shanahan
Painting - 45.7 x 45.7 x 5.1 cm Painting - 18 x 18 x 2 inch
£650
Yellow taxi
Robert Nardolillo
Fine Art Drawings - 38.1 x 55.9 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15 x 22 x 0.2 inch
£764
Sweet Neon Collection
Gabriela Alejandra Rivera
Sculpture - 18 x 24 x 8 cm Sculpture - 7.1 x 9.4 x 3.1 inch
£1,665
Rievocazione michelangiolesca
Massimiliano Carisdeo
Painting - 50 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
£532
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!