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, Échappées, Michèle Sala

Michèle Sala

Painting - 50 x 61 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 24 x 0.8 inch

$974

Painting, The Hug, Wencke Uhl

Wencke Uhl

Painting - 90 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch

$2,200

Painting, Pink leaves, Andrei Sitsko

Andrei Sitsko

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

$1,096

Fine Art Drawings, Untitled 202, Tarek Butayhi

Tarek Butayhi

Fine Art Drawings - 42 x 30 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 11.8 inch

$800

Print, Doodle Hug, Mr Doodle

Mr Doodle

Print - 54 x 60 x 15 cm Print - 21.3 x 23.6 x 5.9 inch

$4,871

Sculpture, The Agam Torah, Yaacov Agam

Yaacov Agam

Sculpture - 28.6 x 22.9 x 5.5 cm Sculpture - 11.3 x 9 x 2.2 inch

$2,600

Print, Untitled, Ayako Rokkaku

Ayako Rokkaku

Print - 60 x 80 x 1 cm Print - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch

$2,983

Sculpture, Wanagi, Daksha Line

Daksha Line

Sculpture - 15 x 9 x 9 cm Sculpture - 5.9 x 3.5 x 3.5 inch

$913

Print, Rita, Bernard Buffet

Bernard Buffet

Print - 66 x 51 x 0.1 cm Print - 26 x 20.1 x 0 inch

$1,705

Painting, CG13, Thomas Danel

Thomas Danel

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

$731

Painting, Sans titre, Toctoc

Toctoc

Painting - 29 x 20 cm Painting - 11.4 x 7.9 inch

$731

Painting, Sans titre (3), Sylva Sylva

Sylva Sylva

Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch

$974

Print, Untitled, Robert Combas

Robert Combas

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

$2,435

Sculpture, Bague M. Chat, M.Chat

M.Chat

Sculpture - 2.5 x 2 x 2 cm Sculpture - 1 x 0.8 x 0.8 inch

$1,193

Painting, Sans titre 4, Scalarudgia

Scalarudgia

Painting - 60 x 60 x 1.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.6 inch

$974

Sculpture, Eureka, Lieven D'Haese

Lieven D'Haese

Sculpture - 52 x 23 x 27 cm Sculpture - 20.5 x 9.1 x 10.6 inch

$7,672

Painting, Untitled, John Matos Crash

John Matos Crash

Painting - 51 x 51 x 4 cm Painting - 20.1 x 20.1 x 1.6 inch

$3,653

Painting, Clean, Jacques Villeglé

Jacques Villeglé

Painting - 81 x 67 x 2.5 cm Painting - 31.9 x 26.4 x 1 inch

$30,444

Painting, Le Mat, Artiste Ouvrier

Artiste Ouvrier

Painting - 100 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch

$2,192

Print, Feu, Hervé Télémaque

Feu

Hervé Télémaque

Print - 76 x 56 cm Print - 29.9 x 22 inch

$1,096

Painting, Tourbillons, Cécile Pujol

Cécile Pujol

Painting - 40 x 40 x 2.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 1 inch

$609

Print, Abierta 2, Antonio Saura

Antonio Saura

Print - 75 x 104 x 0.1 cm Print - 29.5 x 40.9 x 0 inch

$2,679

Painting, Ribambelle, Stratos

Stratos

Painting - 55 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch

$4,749

Sculpture, Existence21, Yasuo Kiyonaga

Yasuo Kiyonaga

Sculpture - 62.5 x 38 x 4.3 cm Sculpture - 24.6 x 15 x 1.7 inch

$609

Painting, P4.13, Jean Feinberg

Jean Feinberg

Painting - 68 x 53.4 cm Painting - 26.8 x 21 inch

$2,179

Painting, Autumn Veil, Vahe Bagumyan

Vahe Bagumyan

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

$750

Sculpture, Fisure, Ana Montoya

Ana Montoya

Sculpture - 27 x 27 x 6 cm Sculpture - 10.6 x 10.6 x 2.4 inch

$974

Painting, Endless greens, Vanessa Onuk

Vanessa Onuk

Painting - 100 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch

$2,921

Painting, Phase, Aykaz Arzumanyan

Aykaz Arzumanyan

Painting - 100 x 81 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 1.6 inch

$1,827

Painting, Bande ut, Paul Gallaud

Paul Gallaud

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

$2,801

Painting, Lilac, Peter Tovpev

Peter Tovpev

Painting - 60 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch

$298

Print, Le café, Simone Fattal

Simone Fattal

Print - 80 x 122 cm Print - 31.5 x 48 inch

$2,435

Print, Genus Alcea, Hugh Turvey

Hugh Turvey

Print - 40.64 x 50.8 x 1 cm Print - 16 x 20 x 0.4 inch

$914

Painting, When We Dance, Joyce Fournier

Joyce Fournier

Painting - 71.1 x 55.9 x 1.9 cm Painting - 28 x 22 x 0.75 inch

$710 $639

Painting, Bornéo, Reyes

Reyes

Painting - 100 x 100 x 0.1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0 inch

$743

Painting, Giverny, Neonilla Medvedeva

Neonilla Medvedeva

Painting - 57 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 22.4 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch

$1,522

Sculpture, Zébroz, Arsen

Arsen

Sculpture - 20 x 14 x 11 cm Sculpture - 7.9 x 5.5 x 4.3 inch

$633

Painting, State Your Name, Snik

Snik

Painting - 45 x 90 x 1 cm Painting - 17.7 x 35.4 x 0.4 inch

$1,827

Painting, Zanzibar, Tony Soulié

Tony Soulié

Painting - 24 x 38 cm Painting - 9.4 x 15 inch

$2,923

Print, Se4, Eusebio Sempere

Se4

Eusebio Sempere

Print - 76 x 56 x 0.02 cm Print - 29.9 x 22 x 0 inch

$609

Print, Sans titre, Larry Bell

Larry Bell

Print - 56 x 76 cm Print - 22 x 29.9 inch

$1,461

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