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Axel Jenny
Painting - 125 x 100 x 0.1 cm Painting - 49.2 x 39.4 x 0 inch
$2,220
Journée de Printemps
Laurent Folco
Painting - 80 x 60 x 3.8 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 1.5 inch
$2,886
Last London Bus
Bert Hardy
Photography - 31 x 41 x 0.01 cm Photography - 12.2 x 16.1 x 0 inch
$1,221
Pièce de Puzzle - personnages de fiction - série Pop Art
Nathalie Zelman
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,387
Lavender & Poppies - Tuscany landscape painting
Gino Masini
Painting - 50 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$333
Every Saint Has a Past (unique painting)
The Connor Brothers
Painting - 120 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$15,540
Vieille femme et son âne
Alberto Cecconi
Painting - 60 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$937
Untitled
Ossip Zadkine
Fine Art Drawings - 62 x 45 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 24.4 x 17.7 x 0 inch
$13,320
Sans titre 10. Série Skull
Christophe Faso
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 30 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$555
Le chant des cigales - La forêt et ses arbres
Dorothée Denquin
Painting - 50 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$766
Village de pêcheurs
Jean-Pierre Douchez
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$694
House in the Desert
Mario Asnago
Painting - 107 x 85 x 1 cm Painting - 42.1 x 33.5 x 0.4 inch
$2,220
Looney Lenny with tags
Seen
Fine Art Drawings - 11 x 8.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 4.3 x 3.3 inch
$1,887
The Birth of Venus
Jeremy Bianco
Painting - 100 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$4,218
Sans titre
Babahoum
Fine Art Drawings - 25.5 x 37.5 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10 x 14.8 x 0.1 inch
$333
Gainsbourg, Le palace #266
Céline Pierzchala
Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.2 inch
$355
Simetria irregular
Orbañanos Jordina
Painting - 36.5 x 25.5 x 3 cm Painting - 14.4 x 10 x 1.2 inch
$1,665
Soft Focus Beach Scene (Fourth of July)
Maxwell Stevens
Painting - 58.5 x 58.5 x 2.5 cm Painting - 23 x 23 x 1 inch
$5,550
Ranunculous 232a
Marc Kittner
Photography - 144.8 x 114.3 x 0.5 cm Photography - 57 x 45 x 0.2 inch
$2,700
Mémoire internée – Poulailler n° 2
Jean-Pierre Le Boul'ch
Painting - 114.5 x 146 x 2 cm Painting - 45.1 x 57.5 x 0.8 inch
$8,325
L'Escalier
Christophe Battifero
Photography - 50 x 75 x 0.5 cm Photography - 19.7 x 29.5 x 0.2 inch
$644
Métamorphose I
Chahrazed Fekih
Fine Art Drawings - 68 x 50 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 26.8 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$2,109
Ocean energy
Yahaira Cohinta Vannucchi
Painting - 136 x 84 x 3 cm Painting - 53.5 x 33.1 x 1.2 inch
$34,853
Still life in red
Marc Jesús-Vives
Painting - 89 x 116 x 0.3 cm Painting - 35 x 45.7 x 0.1 inch
$2,441
In the Desert, Pink Sky
Mickey Bond
Painting - 20.3 x 20.3 x 1.3 cm Painting - 8 x 8 x 0.5 inch
$200
Afrocentric Radiance
Bakare Abubakri-sideeq Babatunde
Painting - 139.7 x 124.5 x 2.5 cm Painting - 55 x 49 x 1 inch
$3,400
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!