Contemporary artworks for sale
Save your search and find it in your favorites
Saved search
Your search is accessible from the favorites tab > My favorite searches
Unsaved search
A problem occurred
Ueno Secondary Street, Tokyo
Marco Santaniello
Painting - 70 x 94 x 3 cm Painting - 27.6 x 37 x 1.2 inch
£4,044
Old Books Street, Shanghai
Marco Santaniello
Painting - 68 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 26.8 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
£2,516
Red 01 Neon Collection
Cannibal Malabar
Painting - 100 x 70 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 1.6 inch
£1,438
Time collapsed. Still life with two rhinos.
Vladimir Kolosov
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 1.9 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 0.75 inch
£1,543
Suspension XX (SG187)
Sylvie Guyomard
Painting - 60 x 50 x 0.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.2 inch
£584
La balle dans une balle IV
Go Segawa
Sculpture - 14 x 14 x 14 cm Sculpture - 5.5 x 5.5 x 5.5 inch
£1,258
Fontaine St Michel
Adrien Faveau
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
£2,426
Compression de cartes postales anciennes
César Baldaccini
Print - 92 x 72 cm Print - 36.2 x 28.3 inch
£1,617
Igloo Mobile
Charles Pétillon
Photography - 60 x 78 x 1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 30.7 x 0.4 inch
£3,594
African Tales (En route to Accra)
Manuela Karin Knaut
Painting - 150 x 120 cm Painting - 59.1 x 47.2 inch
£3,882
Vue sur Genève, le Jura et le lac depuis Cologny
Mady Epstein
Painting - 28 x 35 x 0.5 cm Painting - 11 x 13.8 x 0.2 inch
£805
Équilibre vert et orange
Kardesch
Painting - 162 x 97 x 2.5 cm Painting - 63.8 x 38.2 x 1 inch
£6,829
Coucher de soleil et arbuste
Michael Dessein
Photography - 60 x 40 x 3 cm Photography - 23.6 x 15.7 x 1.2 inch
£404
In a reverie she saw The fox on a mast
Berit Louise Sara-Grønn
Painting - 170 x 130 x 4 cm Painting - 66.9 x 51.2 x 1.6 inch
£5,974
Feather bow
Berit Louise Sara-Grønn
Painting - 250 x 200 x 4 cm Painting - 98.4 x 78.7 x 1.6 inch
£10,129
Red carnations
Isabelle Hirtzig
Fine Art Drawings - 42 x 29.7 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 11.7 x 0.1 inch
£85
Under the mounder
Oleksandra Horscroft
Painting - 80 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
£629
Window to the garden
Oleksandra Horscroft
Painting - 50 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
£629
Flowering, One of three works in the Harmony series (1)
Oleksandra Horscroft
Painting - 70 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
£449
Te quiero, te quiero
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 100 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
£2,471
Les Songes Drolatiques de Pantagruel
Salvador Dali
Print - 85.09 x 81.28 x 2 cm Print - 33.5 x 32 x 0.8 inch
£4,217
Ocean Sunset II
Cannibal Malabar
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
£1,617
Le rouge nous va mieux au teint
Béatrice Terra
Painting - 73 x 92 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 36.2 x 0.8 inch
£2,067
Le cailloux dans la chaussure
Antoine Josse
Painting - 30 x 30 x 3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 1.2 inch
£530
Mélisande lost her love Pelléas
Catherine Clare
Print - 77 x 60 x 0.1 cm Print - 30.3 x 23.6 x 0 inch
£526
Sangliers en métal recyclé
Hassan Laamirat
Sculpture - 82 x 33 x 116 cm Sculpture - 32.3 x 13 x 45.7 inch
£1,303
Poisson sur socle en métal recyclé
Hassan Laamirat
Sculpture - 68 x 18 x 106 cm Sculpture - 26.8 x 7.1 x 41.7 inch
£881
Swimming in silence
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
£2,947
Whispers of the forest
Zakhar Shevchuk
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
£899
Landscape with snow
Zakhar Shevchuk
Painting - 29 x 41 x 2 cm Painting - 11.4 x 16.1 x 0.8 inch
£899
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!