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!

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Painting, ST20240822, Emily Starck

Emily Starck

Painting - 105 x 85 x 3 cm Painting - 41.3 x 33.5 x 1.2 inch

$2,701

Painting, No rules, Nikolaos Schizas

Nikolaos Schizas

Painting - 55 x 55 x 3 cm Painting - 21.7 x 21.7 x 1.2 inch

$2,418 $2,176

Painting, Bande ut, Paul Gallaud

Paul Gallaud

Painting - 80 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch

$2,823

Fine Art Drawings, Discurso indiferente, Teo Franco

Teo Franco

Fine Art Drawings - 42 x 29.7 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 11.7 x 0 inch

$675

Print, Untitled, Robert Combas

Robert Combas

Print - 38 x 28 x 0.1 cm Print - 15 x 11 x 0 inch

$2,455

Painting, Le volcan, Bruno Roudil

Bruno Roudil

Painting - 73 x 60 cm Painting - 28.7 x 23.6 inch

$2,026

Painting, La sportive, Sylvie Eudes

Sylvie Eudes

Painting - 25 x 25 x 4 cm Painting - 9.8 x 9.8 x 1.6 inch

$982

Painting, La tête en vrac, AKET

AKET

Painting - 46 x 38 x 3 cm Painting - 18.1 x 15 x 1.2 inch

$2,210

Painting, Over You, Nemanja Nikolic

Nemanja Nikolic

Painting - 76.2 x 50.8 x 4.1 cm Painting - 30 x 20 x 1.6 inch

$808

Painting, Basta, Jéko

Jéko

Painting - 65 x 50 x 0.2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch

$1,228

Painting, Enfance, Maude Ovize

Maude Ovize

Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch

$2,210

Photography, Keyhole, Alain Boccard

Alain Boccard

Photography - 80 x 80 x 0.5 cm Photography - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.2 inch

$847 $762

Photography, Pink Lady, Marcus Cederberg

Marcus Cederberg

Photography - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Photography - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch

$246 $221

Print, On est tous fous, Ben

Ben

Print - 40 x 50 cm Print - 15.7 x 19.7 inch

$2,210

Design, Small Lie Brown, Kaws

Kaws

Design - 27.9 x 12.7 x 11.4 cm Design - 11 x 5 x 4.5 inch

$982

Painting, Bay, Brian Bartlett

Bay

Brian Bartlett

Painting - 122 x 152 x 4 cm Painting - 48 x 59.8 x 1.6 inch

$2,773

Painting, Le Sacre, Flavien Couche

Flavien Couche

Painting - 100 x 75 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 29.5 x 1.2 inch

$982 $884

Print, Night Fall, Piero Dorazio

Piero Dorazio

Print - 99 x 69 x 0.1 cm Print - 39 x 27.2 x 0 inch

$982

Painting, Lumen, Nicolas Ruelle

Nicolas Ruelle

Painting - 65 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 25.6 x 39.4 x 1 inch

$921

Fine Art Drawings, Balancing Act 2, Tracey Adams

Tracey Adams

Fine Art Drawings - 66 x 50.8 cm Fine Art Drawings - 26 x 20 inch

$1,849 $1,664

Painting, Samba!, Benoît Guérin

Benoît Guérin

Painting - 61 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 24 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch

$884

Painting, Fragile Future, Asko

Asko

Painting - 70 x 70 x 4 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 1.6 inch

$982

Painting, Pleasure, Melezhik Olga

Melezhik Olga

Painting - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch

$743

Sculpture, Mère et enfant, Stratos

Stratos

Sculpture - 34 x 38 x 15 cm Sculpture - 13.4 x 15 x 5.9 inch

$2,087

Print, Marignan, Peter Klasen

Peter Klasen

Print - 72 x 58 cm Print - 28.3 x 22.8 inch

$737

Sculpture, Eclat, Lonzi

Lonzi

Sculpture - 56 x 48 x 10 cm Sculpture - 22 x 18.9 x 3.9 inch

$859

Print, Les arbres, Laurent Bouro

Laurent Bouro

Print - 70 x 70 x 1 cm Print - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch

$675

Print, Shit, Keymi

Keymi

Print - 48 x 36 cm Print - 18.9 x 14.2 inch

$246

Painting, Black galaxy, Ana Hefco

Ana Hefco

Painting - 40.6 x 40.6 x 3.8 cm Painting - 16 x 16 x 1.5 inch

$675

Print, Le plongeon, Maude Ovize

Maude Ovize

Print - 49 x 70 x 0.1 cm Print - 19.3 x 27.6 x 0 inch

$368

Sculpture, Turning Point, Gaspard Mitz

Gaspard Mitz

Sculpture - 24 x 34 x 6.5 cm Sculpture - 9.4 x 13.4 x 2.6 inch

$859

Painting, TJ4E, Stefano Mazzolini

Stefano Mazzolini

Painting - 90 x 90 x 8 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 3.1 inch

$1,228

Painting, Bafoussam, Matthieu Delfini

Matthieu Delfini

Painting - 120 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch

$4,910

Painting, Sunny Moments, Vianney

Vianney

Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch

$3,683

Painting, Purple Touch, Eklektik

Eklektik

Painting - 50 x 50 x 3.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.4 inch

$675

Painting, Schtroumpfs, Dezache

Dezache

Painting - 40 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch

$982

Painting, Sail, Strashevich Alexander

Strashevich Alexander

Painting - 75 x 55 x 2 cm Painting - 29.5 x 21.7 x 0.8 inch

$902

Painting, Sysiphe, Levalet

Levalet

Painting - 64 x 54 x 3.5 cm Painting - 25.2 x 21.3 x 1.4 inch

$2,946

Painting, Arc II No.7, Jeremy Annear

Jeremy Annear

Painting - 35.5 x 25.2 x 0.1 cm Painting - 14 x 9.9 x 0 inch

$2,133 $1,920

Sculpture, Apple - Or, Li Lihong

Li Lihong

Sculpture - 18 x 16 x 16 cm Sculpture - 7.1 x 6.3 x 6.3 inch

$1,228

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