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, Face 1, Tarek Butayhi

Face 1

Tarek Butayhi

Painting - 60 x 55 cm Painting - 23.6 x 21.7 inch

€1,372

Painting, Oreo Lovers, Anthea Missy

Oreo Lovers

Anthea Missy

Painting - 80 x 70 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 27.6 x 1.2 inch

€1,700

Painting, 396, Jérémie Iordanoff

396

Jérémie Iordanoff

Painting - 44 x 44 x 1 cm Painting - 17.3 x 17.3 x 0.4 inch

€700

Photography, Sana, Cécile Baldewyns

Sana

Cécile Baldewyns

Photography - 50 x 50 x 0.04 cm Photography - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch

€700

Photography, Coming Ashore, Slim Aarons

Coming Ashore

Slim Aarons

Photography - 152 x 101 cm Photography - 59.8 x 39.8 inch

€3,350

Painting, Splash 44, Mark Hellbusch

Splash 44

Mark Hellbusch

Painting - 80 x 80 x 1.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.6 inch

€590

Painting, Dinner, Sargis Zaqaryan

Dinner

Sargis Zaqaryan

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

€542 €434

Painting, Corail, Sabrina Viola

Corail

Sabrina Viola

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

€700

Painting, Rorschach, Bald

Rorschach

Bald

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

€1,100

Painting, Nasty (bleu/noir), Nasty

Nasty (bleu/noir)

Nasty

Painting - 24 x 30 x 4 cm Painting - 9.4 x 11.8 x 1.6 inch

€1,000

Painting, The Masks, Mino Maccari

The Masks

Mino Maccari

Painting - 24.5 x 34 x 0.1 cm Painting - 9.6 x 13.4 x 0 inch

€1,200

Fine Art Drawings, Au Grand Radeau, Yves Brayer

Au Grand Radeau

Yves Brayer

Fine Art Drawings - 20.5 x 29.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.1 x 11.6 inch

€500

Painting, Départ, Rudyard Heaton

Départ

Rudyard Heaton

Painting - 81 x 116 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 45.7 x 0.8 inch

€1,500

Sculpture, Eclat, Lonzi

Eclat

Lonzi

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

€700

Painting, Vola via, Davide Angelillo

Vola via

Davide Angelillo

Painting - 100 x 120 x 1.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 0.6 inch

€530

Sculpture, Balloon Heart, Mr Brainwash

Balloon Heart

Mr Brainwash

Sculpture - 41 x 41 x 26 cm Sculpture - 16.1 x 16.1 x 10.2 inch

€41,159

Painting, Untitled, Kokian

Untitled

Kokian

Painting - 65 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch

€690

Sculpture, Existence21, Yasuo Kiyonaga

Existence21

Yasuo Kiyonaga

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

€500

Sculpture, Blue Dous, Olga Radionova

Blue Dous

Olga Radionova

Sculpture - 60 x 16 x 15 cm Sculpture - 23.6 x 6.3 x 5.9 inch

€900

Painting, Fragile Future, Asko

Fragile Future

Asko

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

€800

Sculpture, Jononerock 99 Decks, JonOne

Jononerock 99 Decks

JonOne

Sculpture - 80 x 20 x 0.8 cm Sculpture - 31.5 x 7.9 x 0.3 inch

€2,200

Painting, Ex abrupto 2, L'Outsider

Ex abrupto 2

L'Outsider

Painting - 130 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch

€5,200

Painting, 18A3, Yang Youpeng

18A3

Yang Youpeng

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

€2,744

Painting, Roza, Daniel Timko

Roza

Daniel Timko

Painting - 60 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch

€595

Print, Love Machine, Jace

Love Machine

Jace

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

€800

Painting, Midnight Sizzle, KR Moehr

Midnight Sizzle

KR Moehr

Painting - 40.6 x 50.8 x 1.3 cm Painting - 16 x 20 x 0.5 inch

€521

Painting, Peoni, Tanya Grinevich

Peoni

Tanya Grinevich

Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch

€500

Print, Réverie, Shake

Réverie

Shake

Print - 80 x 60 x 0.1 cm Print - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0 inch

€650

Painting, Aerodynamic, Stom500

Aerodynamic

Stom500

Painting - 120 x 100 x 5 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 2 inch

€4,900

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