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, Tigre, Anand Shyam

Anand Shyam

Painting - 28 x 38 x 3 cm Painting - 11 x 15 x 1.2 inch

€220

Painting, Peeled lemon, Jan Nederlof

Jan Nederlof

Painting - 30 x 24 x 1.5 cm Painting - 11.8 x 9.4 x 0.6 inch

€2,950

Photography, Le Désir, Gaëlle Girbes

Gaëlle Girbes

Photography - 80 x 120 cm Photography - 31.5 x 47.2 inch

€3,000

Painting, Paradigm #3, Indra Dodi

Indra Dodi

Painting - 170 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 66.9 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch

€8,000

Print, Sans titre, Willem

Willem

Print - 70 x 50 cm Print - 27.6 x 19.7 inch

€150

Print, Le Modèle, Moolinex

Moolinex

Print - 70 x 50 cm Print - 27.6 x 19.7 inch

€150

Photography, Dios es Ateo, Yann Merran

Yann Merran

Photography - 30 x 20 x 1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 7.9 x 0.4 inch

€55

Painting, 6 de 2024, Jérôme Mesnager

Jérôme Mesnager

Painting - 41 x 33 x 2 cm Painting - 16.1 x 13 x 0.8 inch

€700 €595

Painting, 7 de 2024, Jérôme Mesnager

Jérôme Mesnager

Painting - 41 x 33 x 2 cm Painting - 16.1 x 13 x 0.8 inch

€700 €595

Sculpture, Mi-Siren, Arman

Arman

Sculpture - 25 x 26 x 17 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 10.2 x 6.7 inch

€6,000

Photography, Art addict, Cécile Baldewyns

Cécile Baldewyns

Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.5 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.2 inch

€800

Photography, Broken, Cécile Baldewyns

Cécile Baldewyns

Photography - 50 x 75 x 0.5 cm Photography - 19.7 x 29.5 x 0.2 inch

€800

Painting, Corry, Stefano Mazzolini

Stefano Mazzolini

Painting - 110 x 92 x 1 cm Painting - 43.3 x 36.2 x 0.4 inch

€1,000

Painting, Danae, Anna Privaloff

Anna Privaloff

Painting - 100 x 140 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 55.1 x 0.8 inch

€2,000

Sculpture, Esperanza, Valerie Marty

Valerie Marty

Sculpture - 51 x 15 x 15 cm Sculpture - 20.1 x 5.9 x 5.9 inch

€1,400

Print, Femme diurne, Corneille

Corneille

Print - 96 x 96 cm Print - 37.8 x 37.8 inch

€1,650

Painting, Tesvol, Stefano Mazzolini

Stefano Mazzolini

Painting - 110 x 92 x 1 cm Painting - 43.3 x 36.2 x 0.4 inch

€2,500

Fine Art Drawings, Untitled 165, Tarek Butayhi

Tarek Butayhi

Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 21 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 8.3 inch

€713

Fine Art Drawings, Untitled 159, Tarek Butayhi

Tarek Butayhi

Fine Art Drawings - 42 x 34 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 13.4 inch

€713

Fine Art Drawings, Untitled 151, Tarek Butayhi

Tarek Butayhi

Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 21 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 8.3 inch

€624

Fine Art Drawings, Untitled 147, Tarek Butayhi

Tarek Butayhi

Fine Art Drawings - 34 x 42 cm Fine Art Drawings - 13.4 x 16.5 inch

€713

Fine Art Drawings, Untitled 126, Tarek Butayhi

Tarek Butayhi

Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 20 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 7.9 inch

€624

Fine Art Drawings, Untitled 133, Tarek Butayhi

Tarek Butayhi

Fine Art Drawings - 20 x 30 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.9 x 11.8 inch

€624

Sculpture, Venus à cordes, Arman

Arman

Sculpture - 65 x 21 x 16 cm Sculpture - 25.6 x 8.3 x 6.3 inch

€6,000

Photography, The White Queen, Paul Wagner

Paul Wagner

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

€600

Photography, Lady Jane, Paul Wagner

Paul Wagner

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

€600

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