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Bread and fruits
Nina Stenshinskaya
Painting - 60 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
£5,481
Madeleine Méditante
Marie Thérèse Tsalapatanis
Sculpture - 53 x 16 x 29 cm Sculpture - 20.9 x 6.3 x 11.4 inch
£8,627
Carnegie Hall (serie Smart Barby)
Isa Sator
Painting - 120 x 60 cm Painting - 47.2 x 23.6 inch
£2,876
Le chahut - Carnaval de Dunkerque
Nadine Vitel
Painting - 81 x 100 cm Painting - 31.9 x 39.4 inch
£2,022
Headquarters of the Sala Gaspar in Barcelona
Anders Fogelin
Fine Art Drawings - 99 x 141.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 39 x 55.7 x 0 inch
£2,516
Village dans les vignes
Michel Jouenne
Painting - 90 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
£6,021
Welle V (wave V)
Brigitte und Martin Matschinsky-Denninghoff
Sculpture - 11.5 x 5.8 x 18 cm Sculpture - 4.5 x 2.3 x 7.1 inch
£5,212
Mauern brechen (breaking walls)
Conrad Westpfahl
Painting - 44.2 x 56 x 0.1 cm Painting - 17.4 x 22 x 0 inch
£7,189
Parallel lives, Painting, Oil on canvas
Bronle Crosby
Painting - 121.9 x 121.9 x 7.6 cm Painting - 48 x 48 x 3 inch
£5,228
Le chapelier de l'intérieur
Jacques Kedochim
Painting - 116 x 81 x 2.5 cm Painting - 45.7 x 31.9 x 1 inch
£6,739
Got Light ?
Keith O'Connor
Fine Art Drawings - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
£2,246
Silhouette IX
Deana Nastic
Photography - 101 x 76 x 1 cm Photography - 39.8 x 29.9 x 0.4 inch
£4,763
David Bowie "Rhythm Roulette"
Markus Klinko
Print - 101.6 x 84.6 x 2.5 cm Print - 40 x 33.3 x 1 inch
£11,553
Very large still life with sterling
Gregory Hull
Painting - 101.6 x 127 x 2.5 cm Painting - 40 x 50 x 1 inch
£5,438
Le voyageur et son chien
Bruno Foullon
Sculpture - 39 x 30 x 33 cm Sculpture - 15.4 x 11.8 x 13 inch
£323
Olfactory peregrinations
Cristìan Marianciuc
Print - 40 x 40 x 3 cm Print - 15.7 x 15.7 x 1.2 inch
£270
L'oiseau rare
Antoine Halbwachs
Sculpture - 51 x 31 x 15 cm Sculpture - 20.1 x 12.2 x 5.9 inch
£3,145
Portrait d'enfant
Madeleine Luka
Fine Art Drawings - 31 x 23 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12.2 x 9.1 inch
£225
Partie de Campagne
Pierre Gaillardot
Fine Art Drawings - 23.5 x 31.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.3 x 12.4 inch
£315
Magritte Khan No16, c.
Kokopelli
Sculpture - 45 x 81 x 19 cm Sculpture - 17.7 x 31.9 x 7.5 inch
£3,145 £2,831
Landscape
Emile Deschler
Fine Art Drawings - 62.5 x 48 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 24.6 x 18.9 x 0 inch
£359
Les couleurs flamboyantes
Noro Rajaoson
Painting - 40 x 40 x 1.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.6 inch
£345
Horses
Germaine Nordmann
Fine Art Drawings - 15.3 x 24.3 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 6 x 9.6 x 0 inch
£341
Rosemary-Lynn
Ljubomir Milinkov
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
£13,479
The Tiger
Maria Ginzburg
Fine Art Drawings - 48 x 70 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 18.9 x 27.6 x 0.1 inch
£315
The Farmhouse
Jacques Ivane-Millérioux
Painting - 32.7 x 50 x 0.4 cm Painting - 12.9 x 19.7 x 0.2 inch
£306
Landscape with a Village
Charlotte Jamois
Painting - 40 x 60 x 0.2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.1 inch
£404
Boxers, Olympic Games Beijing
Giuseppe Gallo
Print - 94.5 x 70 x 0.1 cm Print - 37.2 x 27.6 x 0 inch
£409
The snow melts in Ice Lake Valley
Linda Lasson
Painting - 50 x 67 cm Painting - 19.7 x 26.4 inch
£4,044
That will soon be here
Yuko Soi
Painting - 25.7 x 36.4 x 0.35 cm Painting - 10.1 x 14.3 x 0.1 inch
£2,246
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!