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First Sell of Spirit
Gisèle Vacca
Painting - 100 x 140 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 55.1 x 1.6 inch
$12,440
Plage du fort de Penthievre
Jean-Baptiste Itah
Painting - 33 x 46 x 5 cm Painting - 13 x 18.1 x 2 inch
$396
Maria with big ship chowder bay
HowardArthur Tweedie
Painting - 41 x 57 x 1.7 cm Painting - 16.1 x 22.4 x 0.7 inch
$2,771
Snowy fireworks
Gordon Barker
Painting - 40.9 x 40.9 x 0.5 cm Painting - 16.1 x 16.1 x 0.2 inch
$432
On a warm summers day
Gordon Barker
Painting - 30 x 51.1 x 0.3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 20.1 x 0.1 inch
$445
The pirates are coming
Gordon Barker
Painting - 30 x 51.1 x 0.3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 20.1 x 0.1 inch
$445
Midnight In Venice, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Katrina Avotina
Painting - 39.9 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$499
Glare on blue water.
Iryna Kastsova
Painting - 90 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
$2,307
Blue ocean. Glare.
Iryna Kastsova
Painting - 90 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
$2,827
Tryptique: ondes marines
Clarisse Grenier Meynet
Painting - 75 x 75 x 5 cm Painting - 29.5 x 29.5 x 2 inch
$2,431
Seascape sailing impressions L 5
Peter Nottrott
Painting - 83 x 155 x 4 cm Painting - 32.7 x 61 x 1.6 inch
$2,477
Conversation with wave and the moon
Sokratis Evgenidis
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$7,803
Sunset on the Barbican in Plymouth
James Presley
Painting - 30 x 40.9 x 0.3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 16.1 x 0.1 inch
$341
Beautiful summer landscape XL 11
Peter Nottrott
Painting - 105 x 155 x 4 cm Painting - 41.3 x 61 x 1.6 inch
$2,771
Seaside Rendezvous XL 17
Peter Nottrott
Painting - 105 x 155 x 4 cm Painting - 41.3 x 61 x 1.6 inch
$2,590
Old Tradition of Amsterdam
Anna Pavlova
Painting - 39.4 x 30.5 x 2.5 cm Painting - 15.5 x 12 x 1 inch
$495
Concierto para una nube
Carolina Ayala
Painting - 80 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$3,110
Seaside Rendezvous L 18
Peter Nottrott
Painting - 83 x 155 x 4 cm Painting - 32.7 x 61 x 1.6 inch
$2,364
The Curse of the Albatross
Ziad Dib Jreige
Painting - 22 x 16 x 0.5 cm Painting - 8.7 x 6.3 x 0.2 inch
$348
Coucher de soleil sur les voiles... (Esprit voile)
Olivier Messas
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,601
Twelve Apostles, Australia
Surrendered Echoes
Painting - 102 x 76 x 3 cm Painting - 40.2 x 29.9 x 1.2 inch
$3,732
California Air
Surrendered Echoes
Painting - 76 x 102 x 3 cm Painting - 29.9 x 40.2 x 1.2 inch
$3,732
Water vessel de la série paysages en difficulté / Struggling landscapes
Holly King
Painting - 61 x 50.8 x 2.5 cm Painting - 24 x 20 x 1 inch
$3,958
Rising levels de la série paysages en difficulté / Struggling landscapes
Holly King
Painting - 61 x 50.8 x 2.5 cm Painting - 24 x 20 x 1 inch
$3,958
Chilled moonscape de la série paysages en difficulté / Struggling landscapes
Holly King
Painting - 61 x 50.8 x 2.5 cm Painting - 24 x 20 x 1 inch
$3,958
Flowery coast in Positano - Southern Italy
Gianni Di Guida
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$368
Flowering pointview (Vertical version)- Amalfi painting Italy
Gianni Di Guida
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$368
Flowering pointview (Horizontal version) - Amalfi painting Italy
Gianni Di Guida
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$368
Happy 18th, #2705
Oliver Lipinski
Photography - 30 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$407
Sunset on Setauket Harbor, Painting, Acrylic on Paper
Jonathan Van Brunt
Painting - 20.3 x 25.4 x 0.8 cm Painting - 8 x 10 x 0.3 inch
$335
Couleurs en mer...
Olivier Messas
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$3,257
Shoreline Walk
Paul J Bucknall
Photography - 40.6 x 30.5 x 0.3 cm Photography - 16 x 12 x 0.1 inch
$450
The small pier
Paul J Bucknall
Photography - 30.5 x 20.3 x 0.3 cm Photography - 12 x 8 x 0.1 inch
$298
Gondoles dans la brume
Hervé Pezzini
Photography - 60 x 40 x 1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
$283
Les reflets du ciel et de la mer... (Esprit voile 2021)
Olivier Messas
Painting - 120 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$5,654
Paix à l'horizon... (esprit voile 2022)
Olivier Messas
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$3,246
Horizon
Ellie Sass (Sassayiannis)
Photography - 30 x 42 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 16.5 x 0 inch
$362
Bouquet de fleurs au rivage
Pierre-Gérard Langlois
Print - 56 x 76 x 0.2 cm Print - 22 x 29.9 x 0.1 inch
$441
Á marée montante
Pierre Moreau
Photography - 50 x 75 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 29.5 x 0 inch
$2,149
Pêcheur de crevettes
Pierre Moreau
Photography - 50 x 75 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 29.5 x 0 inch
$2,149
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!