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, Joy 2, Dagmar Gertrot

Dagmar Gertrot

Painting - 210 x 100 x 0.2 cm Painting - 82.7 x 39.4 x 0.1 inch

$7,000

Painting, Tolerance, Uliana Novak

Uliana Novak

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

$10,605

Painting, Golden Down, Dyana

Dyana

Painting - 100 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch

$5,120

Painting, Volumi, Andrea Fraschina

Andrea Fraschina

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

$5,120

Painting, Rubik's Mario, MHY

MHY

Painting - 70 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch

$268

Sculpture, American psycho, Mr Live

Mr Live

Sculpture - 52 x 52 x 5 cm Sculpture - 20.5 x 20.5 x 2 inch

$1,341

Painting, End of the Day, Brian King

Brian King

Painting - 39.9 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch

$3,093

Painting, Untitled, Christian Elmiger

Christian Elmiger

Painting - 90 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch

$3,657

Painting, Dawn, Hasna Alfaisal

Hasna Alfaisal

Painting - 50.8 x 40.64 x 3 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 1.2 inch

$5,668

Painting, Murano, Nada Kelemenova

Nada Kelemenova

Painting - 70 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch

$5,790

Painting, Strokes, Ka

Ka

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

$5,607

Painting, Abrazo, A. Casares Palma

A. Casares Palma

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

$6,034

Painting, Untitled, Emmalee Hazer

Emmalee Hazer

Painting - 57.15 x 51.44 x 0.5 cm Painting - 22.5 x 20.3 x 0.2 inch

$5,180

Painting, Chica del Sol, Melayna

Melayna

Painting - 60 x 30 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 11.8 x 1.2 inch

$3,657

Painting, Do it!, Alina Fayzi

Alina Fayzi

Painting - 65 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 25.6 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch

$1,500

Fine Art Drawings, Sans titre, Menashe Kadishman

Menashe Kadishman

Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 40 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0 inch

$488

Painting, Un battement d’aile, Stew

Stew

Painting - 36 x 43 x 2 cm Painting - 14.2 x 16.9 x 0.8 inch

$1,207

Sculpture, Purple Galaxy, Maeva Drack

Maeva Drack

Sculpture - 97 x 35 x 6 cm Sculpture - 38.2 x 13.8 x 2.4 inch

$3,413

Painting, Person, Dongyao Liu

Dongyao Liu

Painting - 36 x 70 x 0.5 cm Painting - 14.2 x 27.6 x 0.2 inch

$2,377

Painting, Water Matrix, Vesta Shi

Vesta Shi

Painting - 100 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch

$1,400

Sculpture, Crystal Anime, Soren Lyris

Soren Lyris

Sculpture - 10 x 8 x 5.5 cm Sculpture - 3.9 x 3.1 x 2.2 inch

$920

Painting, Chaplin The Kid, Sufyr

Sufyr

Painting - 20 x 20 x 2 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.8 inch

$427

Painting, Blender, Milo Schepers

Milo Schepers

Painting - 150 x 125 x 0.1 cm Painting - 59.1 x 49.2 x 0 inch

$975

Sculpture, Superman, Frany La Chipie

Frany La Chipie

Sculpture - 78 x 30 x 14 cm Sculpture - 30.7 x 11.8 x 5.5 inch

$1,950 $1,755

Sculpture, Midnight, Isobel

Isobel

Sculpture - 102 x 102 x 5 cm Sculpture - 40.2 x 40.2 x 2 inch

$8,630

Fine Art Drawings, Totem, Sergio Barletta

Sergio Barletta

Fine Art Drawings - 71 x 50 x 2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 28 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch

$670

Painting, Game Pac Man, Nobless

Nobless

Painting - 75 x 67 x 0.1 cm Painting - 29.5 x 26.4 x 0 inch

$975

Painting, Crique, Louis Devienne

Louis Devienne

Painting - 68 x 44 x 2 cm Painting - 26.8 x 17.3 x 0.8 inch

$2,730

Painting, Chaplin and a Friend, FOV

FOV

Painting - 40 x 40 x 3 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 1.2 inch

$609 $518

Painting, Portrait #11, Giusy Lopez

Giusy Lopez

Painting - 80 x 80 x 1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch

$841

Fine Art Drawings, Trees, André Roland Brudieux

André Roland Brudieux

Fine Art Drawings - 37.5 x 32.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 14.8 x 12.8 x 0 inch

$670

Print, Bulls, Marcel Chirnoaga

Marcel Chirnoaga

Print - 58 x 40 x 0.2 cm Print - 22.8 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch

$792

Print, El-f, JaveL Art

JaveL Art

Print - 40 x 40 x 0.2 cm Print - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch

$427

Painting, Breeze, Li Jian Hua

Li Jian Hua

Painting - 139.7 x 139.7 x 2 cm Painting - 55 x 55 x 0.8 inch

$21,000

Fine Art Drawings, Des racines au nectar, Oji

Oji

Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 40 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 15.7 inch

$1,219

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