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Au-delà du temps
Françoise Dugourd-Caput
Painting - 40 x 120 x 2.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 47.2 x 1 inch
$1,176
Life in Plastic IV
Gergana Tabakova
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1 inch
$1,244
Suffocated self portrait
Gergana Tabakova
Painting - 150 x 90 x 2.5 cm Painting - 59.1 x 35.4 x 1 inch
$1,923
Suffocated Still Life I
Gergana Tabakova
Painting - 100 x 110 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 43.3 x 1 inch
$1,018
Suffocated Still Life III
Gergana Tabakova
Painting - 120 x 100 x 0.2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 0.1 inch
$565
Life in Plastic V
Gergana Tabakova
Painting - 100 x 110 x 0.2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 43.3 x 0.1 inch
$565
En Forêt de Fontainebleau
Georges R. Quinio
Painting - 46 x 38 x 4 cm Painting - 18.1 x 15 x 1.6 inch
$1,696
Flordali - Les Fruits : Poire Don Quichotte
Salvador Dali
Print - 56.5 x 37 cm Print - 22.2 x 14.6 inch
$5,089
Evening Reflections
Kirstin McCoy
Painting - 100 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$4,524
Ma nature morte vivante
David Ferreira
Painting - 120 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$3,619
Sid Vicious, Memphis, 1978
Bob Gruen
Photography - 50.8 x 61 x 5.1 cm Photography - 20 x 24 x 2 inch
$2,500
Tangerine Summer II
Andrew Kinmont
Painting - 50 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$1,588
Trilogie - Huitres et coquillages de mer
Alexandra Baudin
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,545
XXL embracing nature
Susan Wooler
Painting - 75.9 x 102.1 x 2 cm Painting - 29.9 x 40.2 x 0.8 inch
$887
The lamp of love I
Mitko Zhelezarov
Painting - 60 x 140 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 55.1 x 0.8 inch
$1,470
The Pyrenees mountain, France
Ivan Russev
Painting - 54 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 21.3 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,866
Le Majestueux - série poisson
Alexandra Baudin
Painting - 81 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$3,110
In the lining of your skin
Francesca Borgo
Painting - 130 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 51.2 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$3,970
Ouessant - série bord de mer
Philippe Maillebuau
Painting - 52 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 20.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$746
Baie de Sunchéon magique - Corée
Jean-Marc Stoeffler
Photography - 37 x 47 x 1 cm Photography - 14.6 x 18.5 x 0.4 inch
$283
La chasse au buffle
Hélène Legrand
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$5,089
Mitsuko
Marco Araldi & Keng Wai Lee
Painting - 126 x 66 x 4 cm Painting - 49.6 x 26 x 1.6 inch
$2,118
Soleil blanc à Cannes
Claude Schürr
Painting - 61 x 50 x 2.5 cm Painting - 24 x 19.7 x 1 inch
$4,750
Paysage imaginaire #5
Philippe Saucourt
Painting - 40 x 40 x 1.8 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.7 inch
$707
Méditation #2
Hélène Duclos
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 40 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 15.7 inch
$1,470
Palm Springs '59
Jens Ochlich
Photography - 31.8 x 25.4 x 0.3 cm Photography - 12.5 x 10 x 0.1 inch
$450
Le Mont Blanc, Alpes françaises
Constance Baudot
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,696
Hommage à Yves-Saint-Laurent IV
Agnès Tiollier
Fine Art Drawings - 70 x 100 x 0.25 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0.1 inch
$1,809
3D pink peony
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,696 $1,357
Traunsee, Gmunden, Austria
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 25 x 40 cm Painting - 9.8 x 15.7 inch
$1,131 $1,018
Schloss Ort Insel, Traunsee - Austria
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 42 x 59 cm Painting - 16.5 x 23.2 inch
$1,583 $1,425
City Wiener Neustadt, Austria
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 42 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 16.5 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$1,029 $926
Poem Country
Justin Pumfrey
Photography - 101 x 76 x 0.01 cm Photography - 39.8 x 29.9 x 0 inch
$2,465
Old Calendar
Justin Pumfrey
Photography - 101 x 76 x 0.01 cm Photography - 39.8 x 29.9 x 0 inch
$2,465
Golden Storm
Justin Pumfrey
Photography - 101 x 76 x 0.01 cm Photography - 39.8 x 29.9 x 0 inch
$2,465
Salisbury Plain
Justin Pumfrey
Photography - 41 x 30 x 0.01 cm Photography - 16.1 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$526
L'heure bleue II
Agnès Tiollier
Fine Art Drawings - 70 x 100 x 0.25 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0.1 inch
$1,696
Relámpago
Ernest Carneado Ferreri
Painting - 41 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 16.1 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,583
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!